The Last Ship
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Viking
Published: March 18, 1988
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 623
Copyright date: 1987
First sentence: In bravura beauty, no ship has every come off a Navy ways to be compared with the destroyer and she was a fine example of a noble breed.
Notes: $19.95
Printing statement: "First published in 1988 by Viking Penguin, Inc."
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