Every Man Will Do His Duty
An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793-1815
Twenty-two enthralling stories of the Royal Navy, bringing to vivid life the greatest battles and daily struggles of seafaring in the Napoleonic era At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth. Such a massive Navy required the service of more than 100,000 men-from officers to deckhands to surgeons. These are their stories. The inspiration for the bestselling novels by Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester, these memoirs and diaries, edited by Dea…
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Weitere Autoren: Hattendorf, John B.
- ISBN: 978-1-4532-3832-5
- EAN: 9781453238325
- Produktnummer: 31911229
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 444 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Dean King is an award-winning and bestselling author of narrative nonfiction and other works on historical and maritime adventure, including A Sea of Words (1995), Harbors and High Seas (1996), and Every Man Will Do His Duty (1997), all companion works to Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturinnovels. A foremost expert on O'Brian, King also published a biography of the acclaimed author, entitled Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed (2000). Most recently, King has published the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara (2004), about twelve shipwrecked American sailors' hellish journey across the Sahara Desert, and Unbound (2010), about the women who embarked on Mao's Long March in 1934. King's writing has also appeared inGranta, Esquire, Garden & Gun, Men's Journal, Outside,andthe New York Times.
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