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Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing inevitable about this rise to maritime domination, nor was it ever an easy path.
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Maritime
Pub. Date
2005
Description
On a mid-summer's day in 1919, the interned German Grand Fleet was scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. This book describes the biggest salvage operation ever undertaken, and the role played by Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant.
Author
Publisher
Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2012
Description
John Sugden interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar with his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination and his role in the blockade of Malta, often snatching remarkable triumphs from crippling reverses. But behind his military prowess was a man riven with paradoxes and schisms at the very heart of his personal life. Nelson...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Sam Willis traces the extraordinary career of a man who lived in a time of dramatic change - from his birth in an age of Revolution, through years of service under the restored monarchy and the dynastic upheavals of 1688-9, to the final tawdry betrayal that brought a brave man low.
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a man overboard.
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2007
Description
This is the story of a great commander, Captain Robert Corbet, the most hated Navy captain of his day, and the battle for Mauritius. By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe.