Run Out the Guns!: Press Gang! Enemy Ship! Clear for Action! Under Fire! (en Inglés)
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YOU CAN'T JOIN THE NAVY. YOU'RE A GIRL.Brought up in a navy family, Corrie Harriman is desperate to defy her brother and risk everything to fight Napoleon, but there are not supposed to be any women in the crew of the frigate Swift. It will take every bit of will, skill and luck she can summon up from the depths of her being to smuggle herself aboard and to take on the mysterious evil forces which threaten her and the very cause she believes in. PRAISE FOR ANTHONY BARTON'It is rare enough that the word 'didactic' is used in my presence much less about THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN - all of whom, en masse, bow deeply from the skies in your westerly direction.' -- Anne McCaffrey 'Anthony Barton is a spell-binder and his book an enchantment.'-- Alan Milton, Professor Emeritus, University of Ulster'Anthony Barton addresses one of the most serious, pervasive and persistent sources of conflict in human experience.' -- Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie UniversityI loved this book. The description is so vivid, it made me feel like I was actually on the boat with Corrie. What a wonderful time period and topic to choose! I can't wait to read the next book and find out what happens to her!-- Heidi Gregory-Judd SAIL THE SEAS IN THIS ACTION-PACKED NAVAL ADVENTURE OF HISTORICAL PROPORTIONSEngland and France have declared war, and Corrie Harriman joins in on the action. Corrie's War is a sixteen-part naval adventure series where Corrie joins the Royal Navy and must combat deadly enemies, navigate through hazardous storms, and even endure cruelty by the hands of her own crew. No one suspects that Corrie is actually a young woman-and she plans to keep it that way. PRESS GANG!: Battle, Sweat and Glory in Nelson's Navy! (Bulmer Press, October 2018) by author and painter Anthony Barton is the first entry in the Corrie's War series, in which a press gang brings Corrie and her brother, James, to the warship known as Swift. Her happiness soon turns to fear as Augustus Sly, the brutal master-at-arms, orders them into the bilge hole. Corrie forms a plan, and they break out but later accused of thievery. The punishment is death from hanging. How will Corrie get out of this one? Corrie Harriman's dream of being in the navy turns into a nightmare where she and her brother must fight for survival from her superior officers in PRESS GANG! Books 1-8 are available on Amazon, as well as individually in print and eBook.In Enemy Ship! (Book 2), James battles a French captain aboard a hostile ship and Corrie must save him from impending doom. In Clear for Action! (Book 3), Corrie is promoted to watch officer and in charge of the warship, but encounters the enemy in her path. She must decide whether or not to engage, which could cost the lives of the men, women, and children on the frigate. Outgunned, Swift has a skirmish with the French warship Tonnerre in Under Fire! (Book 4), but can Corrie's plan save her crew from defeat?RUN OUT THE GUNS!This omnibus edition in both print and E-book format, consists of a bundle of the first four four books in the series Corrie's War.To learn more about Anthony Barton, please visit his website www.anthonybarton.info
