Foreword by Patrick O'Brien The most successful Conway Maritime title, this book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable and is the first single-volume work to cover in such depth this vast and complex subject. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy the book contains considerable original research to give a clear and authentic picture of the Senior Service as a whole. With a foreword by one of the most successful maritime fiction authors of the current age, the book is also of interest to all those with enthusiasm for the literature based on the Nelsonic-era.
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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 352 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm : maps, portraits. Notes; Price-clipped. Previous edition: 1989. Includes index.Summary; Foreword by Patrick O'Brien The most successful Conway Maritime title, this book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable and is the first single-volume work to cover in such depth this vast and complex subject. Subjects; Great Britain. -- Royal Navy. Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century. Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century. Genres; History. Naval history.
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- EditoreConway Maritime Press Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0851775217
- ISBN 13 9780851775210
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine320
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