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Book Review of Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates
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Patrick O'Brian says, " This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read".

This book is very entertaining and also sets the standard for current serious scholarship on the history of the pirates of the Golden Age. Many good maps and illustrations from fact and fiction.