[PDF.26zc] The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars

The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars

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 | #3378909 in Books |  US Naval Institute Press |  2001-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.08 x6.40 x9.48l, | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| ... be a little dry reading but it was very good. The book provided a lot of information but ...|By P. D. Harrison|I thought it would be a little dry reading but it was very good. The book provided a lot of information but was well laid out. What books you find about the Napoleonic wars are usually about the army. This story is about the Royal Navy and specially the frigates|About the Author|Tom Wareham is a curator at London's Museum of Docklands.

Novelists from C. S. Forester to Patrick O'Brian have glorified Nelson's dashing frigate captains, but how much of their story is true? The author of this new volume on the nature of frigate command argues that the legend was very close to reality. Based on detailed studies of the appointments, training, and promotion of the Royal Navy's officer corps, he contends that frigate commanders were an elite group whose careers followed separate paths from their contemporaries....

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars   |  Tom Wareham. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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