Morgan narrates the career of the CSS Shenandoah. The Shenandoah was a merchant raider, launched in Britain near the end of the war. Her captain decimated American whaling fleets and threatened the west coast of the United States, before learning the war was over. It's one of those strange, but true stories of wartime.

Morgan disusses the difficulty of actually finding and retaining a crew, the nature of shipboard life, as well as narrating the actual voyage. Accessible and easy to read. ( )