Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 224pp, index, b/w and colour illustrations, maps.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

The organization of navies; the Anglo-Dutch wars and the origins of modern naval power 1650-74; the rise and fall of the French navy 1680-1713; the Baltic in the 18th century seapower in an inland sea; the dawn of global conflict 1739-63; reverse and recovery Britain versus the world 1776-82; total war Britain, France and the struggle for survival 1793-1802; seapower and landpower the Napoleonic wars 1803-15; the war of 1812; pax Britannica? the last years of seapower under sail 1815-50. Part of the Cassell's History of Warfare series.