Cornelius Noon, Chief Turret Captain USN by Delano, Anthony

Cornelius Noon, Chief Turret Captain USN (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540638434)

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Format: Paperback
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Cornelius Noon, Chief Turret Captain USN by Delano, Anthony

Cornelius Noon, Chief Turret Captain USN

$11.00
Cornelius Noon, Chief Turret Captain USN by Delano, Anthony

Cornelius Noon, Chief Turret Captain USN

$11.00
Format: Paperback
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Think of Cornelius Noon as Hornblower or Jack Aubrey for the age of steam and steel. With his master gunner's eye Noon could drop a bird on the wing or punch a five-inch shell through a distant window. This stirring novel charts his course from the Kentucky hills, where he learned to shoot, to his berth in the United States Navy where his singular talent won him swift promotion. When, in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the navy to take over a key Mexican port only Noon's deadly marksmanship made it possible. But Noon, always a loner, had his own ideas about what his country should be doing. His educated eye was just as penetrating when came to sizing up the women who were intrigued by his take-it-or-leave it charm: Mrs Smiley the brash bordello keeper and Leonora the cool diplomatic wife who seduced him.

Author: Anthony Delano
ISBN-10: 154063843X
ISBN-13: 9781540638434
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2016
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d
By Anthony Delano
By Anthony Delano
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Anthony Delano went to London from Australia after an early newspaper career there and was soon a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mirror, which at that time sold nearly five million copies daily. He was stationed in Rome during the Dolce Vita days, in Paris when General De Gaulle was dismantling the French empire, then the United States, where he covered-among many other dramas-the civil rights campaign and the assassination of President John Kennedy. Additional assignments took him all over the globe: wars in Africa and the Middle East, tours with the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Later, he became a senior lecturer, senior research fellow and finally visiting professor at the London College of Communication. He lives in the South of France.www.anthonydelano.info

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