AOS Naval Non Fiction - General
General Non-Fiction books about the Navies of the world during the Age of Sail.
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- By: Keith C. Pye
- Title: Young Heroes: True Stories of Bravery and daring, 1793-1822
- First Published Format: Kindle
- First Published Date: 29 May 2015
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- By: David W. Shaw
- Title: Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
- First Published by: James Bennett Pty
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: March 2004
- ISBN-10: 074323555X
- ISBN-13: 9780743235556
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- By: Peter Padfield
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In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable. |
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- Title: Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782
- Series: The Maritime Supremacy Trilogy
- First Published by: John Murray
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 29 April 1999
- ISBN-10: 0719556554
- ISBN-13: 9780719556555
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- By: Peter Padfield
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This text charts the epic struggle between Great Britain and revolutionary and Napoleonic France, revealing both the hidden forces beneath the surface of events and the strategies and battle tactics which ensured Britain the final victory. In Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, Peter Padfield covered the rise of the Dutch to supreme naval and commercial power in the 17th century and their displacement by the British, followed by the 18th-century struggle between Great Britain and Bourbon France. He now explores the contrasts between British power based on trade and sea control and French power based on territorial conquest, and shows how their respective societies were imprinted with irreconcilably different ways of thought and systems of government and finance. He presents the French Revolution and Napoleon in a radical light as essentially regressive, Britain, for better or worse, as the progressive herald of modern liberties. The reader is placed on the gun deck, amid the cannon, smoke, blood and death, or alongside the great leaders, Pitt, Nelson, Wellington or Napoleon Bonaparte. |
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- Title: Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1788-1857
- Series: The Maritime Supremacy Trilogy
- First Published by: John Murray
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 17 July 2003
- ISBN-10: 0719556651
- ISBN-13: 9780719556654
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- By: Alan Schom
- Title: Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805
- First Published by: Atheneum
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: December 1990
- ISBN-10: 0689120559
- ISBN-13: 9780689120558
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- By: Kevin Brown
| Horatio Nelson did not enjoy robust good health. From his childhood he was prone to many of the ailments so common in the eighteenth century, and after he joined the Navy he contracted fevers that further undermined his strength: he was even seasick whenever he first put to sea. Nevertheless, he saw more action than most officers, and was often wounded the loss of the sight in one eye and a shattered arm were the most public, but by no means his only injuries. This personal experience of sickness made him uniquely aware of the importance of health and fitness to the efficient running of a fleet, and this new book investigates Nelson's personal contribution to improving the welfare of the men he commanded. It ranges from issues of diet, through hygiene to improved medical practices. Believing prevention was better than cure, Nelson went to great lengths to obtain fresh provisions, insisted on cleanliness in his ships, and even understood the relationship between mental and physical health, working tirelessly to keep up the morale of his men. Many other people contributed to what became a revolution in naval health but because of his heroic status Nelson's influence was hugely significant, a role which this book reveals in detail for the first time. |  |