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Loading... The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail - 1793-1815 (edition 2007)by Noel Mostert
Work InformationThe Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815 by Noel Mostert
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An excellent book that covers the Era that spawned the many excellent "Age of Fighting Sail" fictional accounts. Well researched, documented and written it would serve as a fine reference book for both authors and readers. Demonstrably, the First World War with battles in Asia, N & S America as well as Europe and Africa. Interesting, that the last battle in this book is the Battle of New Orleans. Terriffic book. There have been few books that have captured the war at sea between the French Revolution and Waterloo in such exacting historical detail yet still preserved the excitement and terror of the seaman's experience of the daring frigate raid, the one on one battle between two equally-matched 74's and the ponderous broadsides of the line of battle. I love reading about this period in either fact or fiction, and this is quite simply one of the best I've read. Superb no reviews | add a review
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (37)In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval tactics were brought to bear, along with such unheard-of weapons as rockets, torpedoes, and submarines. The war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier the world had ever known--Napoleon Bonaparte--whose vast ambition was thwarted by a genius he never met in person or in battle: Admiral Horatio Nelson.Noel Mostert's narrative ranges from the Mediterranean to the West Indies, Egypt to Scandinavia, showing how land versus sea was the key to the outcome of these wars. He provides details of ship construction, tactics, and life on board. Above all he shows us the extraordinary characters that were the raw material of Patrick O'Brian's and C. S. Forester's magnificent novels. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.2745History and Geography Europe Europe Early Modern 1453-1914 Napoleonic period 1789-1815LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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It's a good read, but probably not a definitive work on the matter ( )