Ruth Gerull-Kardas

F. van Wyck Mason.had a privileged life which started in Paris france. He learned english by the time he was ten. his father was a US consul to France. This story tells of the first phases of the american War of Independence. the three cities being Norfolk Virginia, Bermuda, and Boston. He wrote several tales in this genre, and they follow a gentleman of the period, who rescues a beauty from a nefarious foreigner. His historical details are quite well researched, so I remember this among show more others of his, fondly. show less

Set in 1775 in the early part of the American Revolution, partly at sea between the Caribbean and Boston and in Boston during the Battle of Bunker Hill.