Maritime Power: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851
(Book #2 in the Maritime Supremacy Series)
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Book Overview
In the history of warfare at sea, no era can match the glory of the Nelson era, during which Britain gained supremacy over her rival, Napoleonic France, in the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805, and after which she was to find a new rival, the young United States, in the War of 1812. With keen insight into the geopolitical dynamics of the nineteenth century and thrilling mastery of narrative detail, Peter Padfield sets the reader on the gun deck amid the cannons, smoke, blood, and death and "offers naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as anything you will find in Patrick O'Brian" (former secretary of the U.S. Navy John Lehman, The Wall Street Journal).
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1585677485
ISBN13:9781585677481
Release Date:February 2006
Publisher:Harry N. Abrams
Length:451 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
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An interesting fusion
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Peter Padfield has made his reputation as a naval warfare historian. His biography of Admiral Donitz is particularly worthwhile. In this study, he attempts to combine the social, political, financial, and cultural events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a discussion of naval warfare. He provides an interesting evaluation of the effects of maritime supremacy on general world events along with a discussion of the effects of general world events on maritime warfare. Readers with limited background in the general history of this period may find the book somewhat choppy, as Padfield jumps back and forth from military to non-military history. However, his descrtiptions of naval events and battles remain excellent. He has a particuarly good section on the naval aspects of the War of 1812, an area often overlooked by both general and military historians. This is not for the beginner but an experienced reader will find some interesting insights.
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