LAVERY : Nelson's navy (fülszöveg)
The popularity of sea-stories set during the Napoleonic Wars bears witness to the great romance associated with the sailing navy at the apogee of its success. Of course, these accounts are fiction and accurate descriptions of either the technicalities or contemporary social conditions are not their main aim, but they whet the appetite for more information.
For all those with this deeper interest in the workings of a great fleet, Nelson's Navy will prove the perfect guide. The book is divided into fourteen thematic sections which deal with the design and construction of ships; with the Navy's central and local administration; with the training and organisation of officers, seaman and marines; with ship administration; and with life at sea. By means of dispassionate descriptions and personal accounts the author reveals a world far removed from the popularly depicted poverty and cruelty of life in the Royal Navy.
Brian Lavery – one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy – has produced a book which is truly encyclopaedic in its scope and at the same time eminently readable. Derived from considerable original research, Nelson's Navy is the first single-volume work to cover in such depth this vast and complex subject, and give a clear and authentic picture of the Senior Service as a whole. It will become an important source book for the naval historian, a valuable reference work for the enthusiast, and a revelation to the general reader.
'There is no royal road to a knowledge of the Navy of Nelson's time . . . but Brian Lavery's book is the most nearly regal that I have come across in many years of reading on the subject . . . you name it, Nelson's Navy has it.'
PATRICK O'BRIAN
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