For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself and his future. It was the year in which the American War of Independence changed to an all-out struggle for freedom from British rule - and the year when Bolitho took command of the Sparrow, a small, fast and well-armed sloop of war. As the pace of war increased, the Sparrow was called from one crisis to another - and whe the great fleets of Britain and France convered on the Chesapeake, Bolitho had to throw aside the early dreams of his first command to find maturity in a sea battle that might decide the fate of a whole continent.
- ISBN10 0899669743
- ISBN13 9780899669748
- Publish Date 1 February 1998 (first published 1 October 1979)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Buccaneer Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 319
- Language English