TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES OF SEA WARFARE
Written by Jacques Mordal
Illustrated by Michael Fontaine
Published by Abbey Library
ISBN: 0719602289
TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES OF SEA WARFARE
Written by Jacques Mordal.
Illustrated by Michael Fontaine.
Stock no. 823009
1973.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Turquoise cloth. Drawings, maps & b/w photographs. Translated by Len Ortzen and first published in France c. 1959. ISBN: 0719602289. Covers lightly rubbed at edges and slightlyl browned in appearance. Text block a little grubby else contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge-worn and slightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- PART ONE
- In the Time of Oars and Sails
- I THE NAVAL BATTLES OF ANTIQUITY
- II THE COMING OF THE NORMANS
- III THE BATTLE OF SOUTH FORELAND
- IV THE BATTLE OF SLUYS
- V THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO
- VI THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA LIMPS HOME IN DESPAIR
- VII DE RUYTER, THE MAN WORTH AN ARMY
- VIII FROM BEACHY HEAD TO BARFLEUR POINT
- IX BRITAINS COMMAND OF THE SEAS
- X THE BATTLE OF CHESAPEAKE BAY
- XI THE FIRST ACTIONS OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY
- XII THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
- XIII COPENHAGEN, THE BATTLE WHERE DISOBEDIENCE PAID
- XIV THE CAMPAIGN OF TRAFALGAR
- XV NAVARINOE
- XVI THE MASSACRE AT SINOPE
- XVII PRIVATEERS AND IRONCLADS IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- XVIII LISSA, WHERE RAMMING OR MORALS WON THE DA
- XIX THE FIRST TORPEDO ATTACKS
- XX AMERICAN VICTORIES AT MANILA AND SANTIAGO
- XXI THE RUSSIANS LONG HAUL TO TSOUSHIMA AND DISASTER
- XXII FROM CORONEL TO JUTLAND
- XXIII THE CRUISE OF THE EMDEN
- PART TWO
- Great Battles in World War Two
- XXIV THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- XXV THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
- XXVI MATAPAN AND ALEXANDRIA, BRITISH VICTORY AND ITALIAN REVENGE
- XXVII GERMAN SUBMARINES AND THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
- XXVIII THE MASSACRE OF CONVOY (PQ)
- XXIX THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
- Appendix
- Chief Dates in Sea Warfare
- Index
- Index of Ships