Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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"Daughan's volume tells tales about heroes, like Oliver Hazard Perry and Thomas Macdonough, in a fscinating fashion.The book is fil...

American Heritage

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"George C. Daughan's book is more comprehensive than the title might suggest. The author of "If By Sea:The Forging of the Amer...

Maine Sunday Telegram

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"Readers who have experienced George C. Daughan's prvious volume, "If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy from the Americ...

IPPY Gold Medal

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"1812:The Navy's War" has won the 2012 gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. history catagory. The...

Notable Naval Books of 2011

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Proceedings Magazine, U.S. Naval Institute, has chosen "1812: The Navy's War" as one of the top 20 Notable Naval Books of 2011...

Proceedings Magazine

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"..........1812: The Navy's War is more than its title implies. It combines a lively narrative of naval actions with a keen underst...

Military Officer Magazine

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"Daughan brings military history alive, describing how a few stout warships and bold captains were the the primary offense and defense ...

The George Pendleton Prize

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"1812:The Navy's War" has won the George Pendleton Prize for an outstanding book. The prize will be awarded at the annual SHFG...

The Audies

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"1812: The Navy's War" has been selected as a finalist by the Audio Publishers Association for their Audie Awards competion in...

San Antonio Express News

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"America's soverneignty, only a couple of decades old, was at stake when President James Madison reluctantly declared war on Englan...

Kennebec Journal

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"In 1812, the fledgling democracy of the new United States was just 29 years old. Militarily weak and fractured by regional political b...

The Wall Street Journal

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"The book is much more than the title suggests. Mr Daughan shows how the war at sea fitted into the American war effort and how the Nav...

Sea Classics

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"This is the thrilling story of America's Naval war from the coast of far-off Brazil to the interior waterways of the Great Lakes, ...

Roanoke Times

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"This {1812: The Navy's War} and possible future volumes should become a standard text for the serious history student." Richa...

The Washington Times

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"With the bicentennial of the War of 1812 soon upon us, a plethora of books on the subject are in the market. Some treat individual act...

Open Letters Monthly/Stevereads

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Stevereads 2011 Best Books of the Year. Number Three - "1812: The Navy's War" "The author tackles his still-too-neglect...

Baton Rouge Advocate

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Little-studied War of 1812 gets overdue treatment, by Andrew Burstein* As we approach the bicentennial of that formative, little-studied war...

The Weekly Standard

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Victory at Sea: The Navy comes of age in the War of 1812 by Joseph F. Callo* "Frequently {The War of 1812} is seen as a sequence of f...

Providence Journal

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America's first war after independence. BYLINE: Tony Lewis* "In 1812: The Navy's War, George C. Daughan does a terrific job o...

The Washington Independent Review of Books

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" In his new book, George Daughan provides vivid and detailed recreations of the U.S. navy's signigicant battles during the War of ...