A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers
Book Details
Author(s)
Buckner F. Melton Jr.
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN / ASIN
B0001CJ9UY
ISBN-13
978B0001CJ9U0
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#2,181,481
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Description
In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise. Among the teenage seamen was Philip Spencer, the disturbed son of the U.S. Secretary of War. When Spencer's scheme to kill the officers and turn Somers into a pirate ship was uncovered, the captain and officers faced a fateful choice. The result shook the nation.
