Download or read book The Guernseyman written by C. Northcote Parkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Delancey, inadvertently embroiled in Liverpool labor riots, sidesteps punishment by "volunteering" for the Navy. Ranked as a midshipman, he is no sooner aboard than his ship sails for the port of New York. But when the events of the American Revolution and the ongoing hostilities between England and France send him back across the sea, Delancey finds himself instrumental in defending the Isle of Jersey and, later, the Rock of Gibraltar.