FIGHTING AT SEA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE ART OF SAILING WARFARE.
Code: C198
Price: £25.99
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
272pp., illus., P.B. 2023. In a series of thematic chapters, following the rough chronology of a sea fight from initial contact to damage repair, the author offers a dramatic interpretation of fighting at sea in the eighteenth century, and explains in greater depth than ever before how and why sea battles were won and lost in the great Age of Sail.