"Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. "Voyage to the First of December" has true distinction . A story that has long lain buried in the annals of the American Navy is the record of the only alleged mutiny-an abortive one at that-in our country's naval history . the story is told with close adherence to the records, but using the novelist's license to probe into the psychology of the actors in this drama, and to fill in the tantalizing spaces between the spare lines of fact."-"The Wall Street Journal"

Drawn from the facts of a notorious episode in U.S. naval history, the "Somers" Mutiny...

"Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. "Voyage to the First of December" has true distinction . A story that has long lain buried in the annals of the American Navy is the record of the only alleged mutiny-an abortive one at that-in our country's naval history . the story is told with close adherence to the records, but using the novelist's license to probe into the psychology of the actors in this drama, and to fill in the tantalizing spaces between the spare lines of fact."-"The Wall Street Journal"

Drawn from the facts of a notorious episode in U.S. naval history, the "Somers" Mutiny...

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