Last Flag Down, John Baldwin
Last Flag Down, John Baldwin
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Last Flag Down
The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship

Author: John Baldwin, Ron Powers

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2007

Synopsis

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.

About The Author

John Baldwin is a magazine writer, lecturer, and the author of the novels Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship (with Ron Powers) and Ice Pick. Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He is the author of White Town Drowsing and Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. He lives in Vermont.Michael Kramer is an actor, director, and narrator. He has recorded more than 100 audiobooks, as well as titles for the Library of Congress Talking Books program. Among the recognition he has garnered for his narration are AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award and the Torgi Award. Mr. Kramer lives in Washington, DC, where he is active in the area’s theater scene, and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

You get a good idea of the story here by reading the blurb on the cover – Confederate ship harassing Federal maritime industry doesn’t know the war has ended. That is a good, short description. The book adds a lot to this story, but also misses some opportunities. The main source for the book is the......more

Goodreads review by Judy

By 1864, the tide of the Civil War was turning in favor of the Union and the Confederacy, in an effort to break the blockade of southern ports and to attack Union merchant ships, commissioned some state-of-the-art ships in England and set them loose on the high seas. This book is the story of the Sh......more

Goodreads review by Paul

”Last Flag Down” by John Baldwin and Ron Powers, published by Crown Publishers. Category – History (Civil War) Publication Date – July 22, 1944. Although this book is classified as a Civil War novel, I found very little information concerning the Civil War. I believe the book deals mainly with the str......more

Goodreads review by Tom

I'm a bit conflicted on the rating for this one...maybe a 3.5. It is a very interesting story about a facet of Civil War history I was unfamiliar with and I did enjoy it. But I kept feeling like something was missing and I believe it was simply context. The story is told from the perspective of the......more

Goodreads review by John

The last shot of the War Between the States was fired by the C.S.S. Shenandoah in the Bering Strait between Siberia and the Russian colony of Alaska. When the officers searched the last ship, they discovered newspapers indicating that the war was going so badly that it may have ended. They didn't kn......more

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