NELSON'S NAVY SHIPS, MEN & ORGANI - Couverture rigide

Lavery, Brian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0851775217 ISBN 13 : 9780851775210

Editeur : Conway Maritime Press Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Patrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Brian Lavery is one of Britain's leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His naval writing was further honoured in 2008 with the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal. His recent titles include Ship (2006), Royal Tars (2010), Conquest of the Ocean (2013), In Which They Served (2008), Churchill's Navy (2006), and the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Seas (2010).'

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Conway Maritime Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0851775217
• ISBN 13: 9780851775210
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320