- Published: 26 August 2015
- ISBN: 9780451416117
- Imprint: Dutton
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $37.99
Give Me a Fast Ship
The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
- Published: 26 August 2015
- ISBN: 9780451416117
- Imprint: Dutton
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $37.99
"In Tim McGrath's Give Me a Fast Ship, early American naval literature has found a proud new flagship... It is rare for a one-volume work to fill the sails of personalities and battles separated from the modern reader by nearly two centuries, but Give Me a Fast Ship pulls it off beautifully. His descriptions are vivid, his commanders three-dimensional, and he evinces a genuine love of the world of white sails and black powder." --The Wall Street Journal
"Tim McGrath is a storyteller writ large... This is a delight to read." --The Kansas City Star
"In Give Me a Fast Ship, naval historian Tim McGrath has given us a meticulous, adrenalin-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy, and a John Paul Jones for our times and for the ages." --Laurence Bergreen, New York Times bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World
"[McGrath's] gripping descriptions of pursuit and combat at sea are equal of any fiction, with the added virtue of being entirely true... Solidly researched history presented with verve and gusto." --Kirkus, starred review