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The saga of Sealand, the world's smallest rebel nation, is a swashbuckling tale of international intrigue, armed battles, and Swingin' Sixties radio pirates over a fifty-year span of self-proclaimed sovereignty. In 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates cemented his family's place in the history books when he inaugurated himself King of the Principality of Sealand, tiny dominion of the high seas. And so began the peculiar story of the world's most stubborn micronation on a World War II anti-aircraft gun platform off the coast of England. Sealand is the raucous tale of how a rogue, larger-than-life adventurer seized the disused Maunsell Sea Fort from a group of pirate radio broadcasters, settled his eccentric family on it, and defended their tiny kingdom from UK government officials and armed mercenaries for half a century. Incorporating original interviews with surviving members of the principality's royal family, Dylan...

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Author

Dylan Taylor-Lehman

Publisher

Diversion Publishing Corp.; Diversion Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781635767261

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Adventure