This work looks at the naval elements of the War of 1812 in which America invaded Canada while Britain was focused on European wars.
Andrew Lambert Libri
Questo storico navale britannico è specializzato nello studio della storia marittima. Il suo lavoro si concentra sulla strategia navale e sul suo impatto sugli eventi mondiali. Esamina come la potenza marittima abbia plasmato le relazioni internazionali e i paesaggi politici. Le sue analisi offrono profonde intuizioni sui momenti cruciali della storia navale e sulle loro conseguenze durature.
Nelson
- 356pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
'Fascinating . In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Britannia's God of War'.
Presents the history of naval warfare during the age of sailing warships used from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
Celebrate mankind's 3,000 years at sea with a spectacular record of 360 well-known ships in history and fiction. Each page offers the story of a famous (or in some cases, infamous) vessel, illustrated with a stunning photograph or painting, and complete with technical specifications of the ship's construction, size, crew, and tonnage. The drama of the high seas is brought to an arresting news photo of the Torrey Canyon , broken in two on a reef in the English Channel, accompanies the story of the world's first major supertanker oil spill. Many entries discuss innovations in ship design, while others tell tales of battle and exploration, mutiny and piracy, shipwreck and survival.