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Work InformationLife Before the Mast: An Anthology of Eye-Witness Accounts from the Age of Fighting Sail by John Lewis-Stempel
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This text contains eyewitness accounts of the battles, the hardships, and the excitement of naval service during the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812 - a time when combat at sea was won, not by technology but by sheer courage, wit and endurance. No library descriptions found. |
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