![]() From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold to Die, comes the untold and largely unknown story of how the Royal Australian Navy battles pirates, gun runners and drug smugglers in the seas of the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa along the infamous route known as the 'smack track'.For more than twenty years, Australian sailors have been risking their lives, conducting often fraught and dangerous operations in war and in the battle against terrorism. ![]() From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf. This book is available and ready to be shipped. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. ![]() Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 4612 Photos available upon request. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o, iv-viii,, 2-244, 2*-68* Language: English Binding: Hardcover tight & secure Size: ~9.5in X 6.25in (24.5cm x 16cm) Rare with no other example for sale worldwide Our Guarantee: Very Fast. To which is added, a review of the Court's decision Washington City, 1825. before a General Court Martial, held at Washington, in July, 1825. Item number: #4611 Price: $499 BEALE, Robert A Report of the Trial of Commodore D. In 1825, a report of his trial and conviction was published by Robert Beale in Washington. However, is tenure came to an unfortunate end when he was court-martialed for unsanctioned acts at sea policing piracy in the West Indies. 1825 1ed Trial of David Porter America NAVY War of 1812 PIRATES Beale Washington David Proter was an American Naval officer who became famous for leading the USS Constitution in various wars including the War of 1812. Munroe’s novel offers a useful portrait of the dynamics linking patriotism (critically related to nationalism), gender definition, and military service in this unfinished history of American imperialism.Hardcover. The essay focuses on American nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century, as it converged with issues of masculine definition and the emergent heterosexual/homosexual axis, the women’s movement, the closing of the Western frontier, and a surge of racialist and militarist enthusiasm which led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. As a number of American historians have shown (Kaplan, McClintock, Romero), this relationship continued to be fractured by contradiction and incoherence throughout the nineteenth century. ![]() In an article on early American citizenship, historian Linda Kerber points out the long-standing European tradition of linking citizenship to military service and quotes a curious toast proposed by one of the Founding Fathers’ wives in 1783: “May all our citizens be soldiers, and all our soldiers citizens.” While the immediate reference would be to the institution of a civil militia as opposed to a standing army, the conflation of citizenship with soldiering throws light on the contradictory and problematic relationship of women to national identity in an era of nation-founding and nationbuilding.
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