Nelson's Victory
250 Years of War and Peace
May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still extant, has today become the embodiment of the great Age of Sail. Many books have been written about Victory but none like this, which tells the full story of the ship since she first took to the waters in May 1765. It contains many surprises that she was almost wrecked on her launch; that diplomacy conducted onboard her played a crucial role in provoking Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812; and that in 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm set the First World War in motion at a desk made fro…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4738-5494-9
- EAN: 9781473854949
- Produktnummer: 22563160
- Verlag: Seaforth Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 98'104 KB
Über den Autor
Brian Lavery is one of Britains leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His naval writing was further honoured in 2008 with the Society of Nautical Researchs Anderson Medal. His recent titles include Ship (2006), Royal Tars (2010), Conquest of the Ocean (2013), In Which They Served (2008), Churchills Navy (2006), and the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Seas (2010). Brian lives in London.
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