Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52206to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship Author: Ron Powers, John Baldwin Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 15, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: a loyal warrior. a dying cause. an epic race for salvation. As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with their crew, they would spend nearly a year destroying dozens of Union ships, all while continually dodging the enemy. Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking truth to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, and they were now being hunted as pirates. What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one place the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that their fate would depend on how they answered a single question. Wondrously evocative, LAST FLAG DOWN is a riveting story of courage, nobility, and rare comradeship forged in the quest to achieve the impossible.

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