War at Sea
A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless, others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are the battles that claimed them, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and Midway. Underwater exploration is increasingly discovering long-lost warships from the deepest parts of the ocean, revealing a vast undersea museum that speaks to battles won and lost, service, sacrifice, and the human costs of warfare.War at Sea is a dramatic global tour of this remote museum and other formerly lost traces of hu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-088803-9
- EAN: 9780190888039
- Produktnummer: 31793735
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'635 KB
- Abbildungen: 100 b/w halftones, 40 line drawings, with 16 page insert
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James P. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist, explorer, and author. His shipwreck investigations include the RMS Titanic, USS Monitor, USS Arizona (BB-39), Sub Marine Explorer, the buried Gold Rush ships of San Francisco, and Kublai Khan's legendary lost fleet.
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