The Wars in Barbary: Arab Piracy and the Birth of the United States Navy

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Top edge foxed, minor wrinkle to jacket laminate. 1971 Hard Cover. 165 pp. Illustrated with maps and engravings. Notes, selected bibliography, and index follow text. Beginning with Barbarossa in the sixteenth century, the book traces the history of Arab piracy which culminates in the taking of American ships immediately following the American Revolution, and the subjection of American men to slavery.