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Title: John Paul Jones: Father of the United States Navy by Wallace Bruce ISBN: 0-595-24232-4 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book, Great Author
Comment: I had the distinct pleasure of running into Mr. Wallace Bruce (aka Joe Smith) on a train in the Scottish Highlands. He is a very kind and knowledgeable man. We talked as the train continued on and he told me he had written a book about an American patriot/hero (my American accent was a dead give-away) and began to discuss the history of John Paul Jones.

Mr. Bruce became animated, happy and excited as he retold the history of John Paul Jones. This same excitement and love for the subject is clearly evident in his book. It is a great read and I highly recommend it to any fan of American history.

Fantastic job Mr. Bruce!

Rating: 5
Summary: Review from Lochaber Life Magazine, Scotland
Comment: This review appeared in Lochaber Life, November 2002:

Wallace Bruce is the pen name of Roy Bridge's Joe Smith. When Mr Smith was a college lecturer, he took a group of students to the USA as guests of Neil Armstrong, and then began his interest in the eighteenth-century American hero.

John Paul was a gardener's son in Scotland, went to sea as a cabin boy and quickly became a Merchant Navy captain. When he was twenty-eight he changed his name to Jones, following the killing of a mutineer off Tobago. He then made his way to Philadelphia and joined the infant American Navy, rising to the rank of Captain by the start of the War of Independence. As well as harassing British shipping, he became famous for leading his men in the raid on the UK mainland at Whitehaven.

The author described all this, Jones's promotion to Commodore, his responsibility for organising the new navy, and his later work for Russia, with admirable respect for the facts along with the ability to pull the reader into sharing Jones's life under sail and in battle.

A great deal of research has obviously been carried out, but Mr Smith still manages to carry the story along in a lively fashion.

From: Lochaber Life, November 2002, No. 121