Call to Arms is the fourth novel in the award-winning historical /
nautical fiction series from William C. Hammond. Along with the other
novels in the Cutler Family Chronicles--most recently For Love of
Country and The Power and the Glory - it features the epic saga of
the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts and an ever
expanding cast of characters.
Among these characters are real historical figures including Capt.
Edward Preble, Lt. Stephen Decatur, Lt. Richard Somers, Samuel
Coleridge, Bashaw Yusuf Qaramanli, and Adm. Horatio Lord Nelson.
Interwoven with these historical characters is a fast-paced and gripping
plot that takes the listener from Java in the Dutch East Indies to New
England at the start of the 19th century, and on to Gibraltar, Tripoli,
Malta, Sicily, Alexandria and Cairo. Historic events depicted in the
novel have been subjected to intense research and have been vetted by
historians.