Jonathan Swift responded with an attack on the Irish judiciary almost unparalleled in its ferocity, his principal target being the "vile and profligate villain" William Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Also during these years, he began writing his masterpiece, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships", better known as "Gulliver's Travels". Much of the material reflects his political experiences of the preceding decade. For instance, the episode in which the giant Gulliver puts out the Lilliputian palace fire by urinating on it can be
Into the Storm (Anderson novel) Into the Storm (Anderson novel) Into The Storm is the first book of the "Destroyermen" series of alternate history novels by Taylor Anderson. The main setting of the series is the four-stacker USS "Walker", which in this series is part of the United States Asiatic Fleet, and being pursued by the Japanese battlecruiser "Amagi". In 1942, the American destroyer USS "Walker" (DD-163), a World War I 'four-piper', is part of the United States Asiatic Fleet. Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is "Walker"s captain. "Walker" and her sister ship, USS "Mahan" (DD-102), enter a squall and emerge on an alternate Earth where