Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))

Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
by John Baldwin, Ron Powers

Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
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Author: John Baldwin, Ron Powers
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Large Print
Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN: 0739327186
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Random House Large Print

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Book Review: Author's bias and speculations distract from an otherwise good book.
Summary: 3 Stars

This book should have been advertised more as the biography of the executive officer of the ship, Conway Whittle. The author is in fact one of his descendants and he wrote this book mostly from Mr. Whittle's log book and perspective and the book shows this bias from start to finish. The author also includes many analogies and speculative reasoning throughout much of this book which for me created a distraction as the reader (-1 star).

I found this book hard to stay engaged with. I could easily put it down and pick back up days later. For me, it wasn't a "page turner". (-1 star)

One of the things that I did like was that it's written from the Southern perspective, and did not fall into the more modern diatribe of anti-southern, racist bias that most current Civil War writings are featuring.
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Summary of Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might have stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a crew of strays, misfits, and strangers, they would spend nearly a year sailing two-thirds of the way around the globe, destroying dozens of Union ships and taking more than a thousand prisoners, all while continually dodging the enemy.

Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking truth to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, and they were now being hunted as pirates.

What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one place the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that their fate would depend on how they answered a single question. Wondrously evocative and filled with drama and poignancy, Last Flag Down is a riveting story of courage, nobility, and rare comradeship forged in the quest to achieve the impossible.

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