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Donald Barr Chidsey
From the moment George Heritage entered Cuban waters he was in trouble. First the Spanish coast guard shelled his vessel, then he learned his shipmates had deceived him, and finally…
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The whole color-filled panorama of the momentous 16th Century, its heroes and heroines, its explorers Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, the mighty King Philip of Spain, the rival…
The politics of royal matrimony are the central thread of the life of the Virgin Queen. But this vivid portrail of Elizabeth I encompases that extravagant, exuberant age to which…
The flaming hell that was World War I was laid bare by the brutal sinking of the Lusitania. Until then, no one – particularly in neutral America – was prepared…
! dashing young swordsman, Talbot Slanning, for the love of a maid got himself into a jam with a favorite of Queen Bess, and had to flee from England for…
If you like pirate novels, you’ll enjoy Donald Barr Chidsey’s MAROONED – a real swashbuckling adventure of buccaneering to match the best.
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THE PIPES ARE CALLING is a terrific, action-packed novel of the desperate days that followed the rebellion of the Highlanders. It is proof once again that Donald Barr Chidsey is…
This is the story of a race from Singapore to Canton between two barques, The Forest of Arden and The Firefly. Both ships carry cargoes of the finest opium and…
A story of friendship, a friendship that stands the strain of desertion, of betrayal, of awareness of littleness-and even at the close, when murder has been done, something survives. A…
It all started with a sea fight. Ezra Bond came out of the smashing set-to as the master of the Forbearance and of the bewitching young Lady Helen, who was…
Aaron Burr was one of the most astounding and perplexing men in American history. A man who had lost the Presidency of the United States to Thomas Jefferson by only…
In The Tide Turns, Donald Barr Chidsey, with the same sense of immediacy that made July 4, 1776, Valley Forge, and The Great Separation so successful, permits us to share…
A vividly exciting, on-the-scene account of the most crucial winter of the American Revolution.
Donald Barr Chidsey explores the story of the Boston Tea Party and the beginning of the American Revolution.
Toby Franklin was careful in business and even in love, but he was under orders, so what could he do when the respectable merchant to whom he was indentured told…
[Sir Humphrey Gilbert] is a grand subject for a biography half as long as Chidsey’s Raleigh, and Chidsey has done it well with his accustomed zest. -Cincinnatti Enquirer Humphrey Gilbert…
As the tumbrel clatters down the streets of 18th-century London to the gallows at Tyburn, Tom Savage abandons all hope. His resemblance to the famous highwayman Harry Twekes is going…
Donald Barr Chidsey explores the events leading up to the surrender of Cornwallis and the end of the American Revolution.
A vivid, hour-by-hour account of the events leading to the most dramatic decision in American history-the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The author re-creates the people, the actions, the…
Donald Barr Chidsey brings his amazing and widely acknowledged skills as a popular historian to bear on one of those controversial American wars-perplexing, colorful, at times brutal, often devastating. It…
A more unlikely Founding Father it would be hard to imagine. Samuel Adams, in appearance, was an extraordinarily ordinary man, a man unskillfully put together. Thus begins Donald Barr Chidsey’s…
An informal history of Georgia and the Carolinas in the American Revolution.
Johnny Lamb couldn’t stop living long enough to clear his name of a murder charge in Connecticut. Instead, he took a whaling ship and wound up in the Sandwich Islands…
When George Rounsivel’s pirate band captured the niece of the Governor of the Bahamas, that young American buccaneer was in a jam. For he already shared his cabin with a…
Louisiana Purchase examines the personalities and events that contributed to America’s acquisition of the Louisiana territory and discusses its economic and political impact on the nation. By Donald Barr Chidsey…
Donald Barr Chidsey explores the creation of the American Constitution.
A full-length story of the life and adventurous career of Prince Chrles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender. A portrait of a man whose charm and daring made him, for a…
In Plymouth harbor, a seaman rowed out to board his ship in the midnight dark. Shore leave had been very wet and he slept soundly on deck–they weren’t too fussy…
Panama Passage is the story of Harry Kellems, a young engineer, whose wealthy, spoiled, and pampered wife decided to join him in plague-ridden, rudimentary Panama. Panama, in those days, was…
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Disguised as a notorious outlaw, hot-blooded Dave Macdonough invaded the river rogues’ hideout in a reckless attempt to destroy them. But his mission became an act of persona! vengeance when…
Embark on a thrilling journey with prolific pulp fiction author Donald Barr Chidsey's timeless series featuring the indomitable Miami cop Sgt. Wentworth L. McGarvey and his trusty sidekick, Detective Morton…
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Prolific pulp fiction author Donald Barr Chidsey's long-running series about hard-boiled Miami cop Sgt. Wentworth L. McGarvey and his sidekick, Detective Morton, was one of the most popular series to…
