BOOK COVER: The Greater the Honor
Softcover, 5½"x8½", 288 pp.
ISBN-10: 1-888671-20-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-888671-20-9
Price: $16.95 plus s&h.

Hardcover, 5½"x8½" ISBN-10: 1-888671-16-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-888671-16-2
Price: $29.95 plus s&h.

The year is 1803, and young Oliver Baldwin arrives in Boston to take his berth aboard the newly launched United States brig Argus commanded by Stephen Decatur. Argus is bound for the Mediterranean to join Commodore Preble's squadron to protect our trade against the "Barbary Pirates," the North African Corsairs who made their livelihood preying upon merchant vessels sailing in the western Mediterranean. Baldwin and his shipmates are in for a rollicking adventure. Under Decatur's careful eye, the young men in his command learn to hand, reef, steer and fight!

Novelists, like historians, are storytellers. Unlike historians, however, they find the elements of plot and suspense not in libraries and archives but in their own imaginations. Bill White is one of those few novelists who is comfortable both in the world of imagination as well as amongst books and dusty manuscripts. In The Greater the Honor he weaves an imaginative tale of young men in war set against an historical background that is accurate in nearly every detail.

This is a rollicking sea story of the American naval officers who proudly called themselves "Preble's Boys." They took their ships to a distant station to defend the new Republic. They cowed the Tripolitans and impressed the British. Finally, Stephen Decatur and the rest of Preble's Boys got their due. Their adventures and courageous acts challenge Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower and they are all the more impressive because their story is true. White's skill as a novelist and his passion for historical accuracy put him on a course with Patrick O'Brian. William Fowler, Ph.D., Director Massachusetts Historical Society

About the Author
Mr. White is a former United States Naval officer with combat service. He is also an avid, life-long sailor. As a maritime historian, he specializes in Age of Sail events in which the United States was a key player and lectures frequently on the impact of these events on our history. He authored three novels set during the War of 1812: A Press of Canvas, A Fine Tops'l Breeze and The Evening Gun, which make up the War of 1812 Trilogy. He lives in New Jersey with his wife of 36 years. More on William White and his books can be found at his website.

About the Artist
Paul Garnett began drawing before he could write his name. He was a shipwright on the vessel Bounty built for MGM's 1962 remake of "Mutiny on the Bounty" and his paintings have been published twice by the foundation which now owns the ship. His art has also been showcased on A&E's television program "Sea Tales"; the History Channel's "Histories Mysteries:What Really Happened on the 'Mutiny on the Bounty'"; and by Nautical World magazine.

More information about the artist and his work can be found at his website.