Seapower ashore : 200 years of Royal Navy operations on land / ed. by Peter Hore
2001, First Edition. London : Chatham Pub. in association with the National Maritime Museum. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465368
ISBN: 1861761554
Physical description; 288 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Foreword / Admiral Sir Jock Slater -- Introduction: A very British way in war / Peter Hore -- Smith and the Siege of Acre 1799: sea power decisive on land / Tom Pocock -- 'Science and labour': the naval contribution to operations ashore in the great wars wtih France 1793-1815 / Michael Duffy -- Nelson ashore, 1780-97 / Colin White -- 'Within cannon shot of deep water': the Syrian Campaign of 1840 / Andrew Lambert -- Under the heel of Britannia: the bombardment of Sweaborg 9-11 August 1855 / Andrew Lambert -- March into India: the relief of Lucknow 1857-59 / Richard Brooks -- The long arm of seapower: the Anglo-Japanese war of 1863-64 / Colin White --Admiral Beatty and brown water: the Sudan and China 1896-1900 / Richard Brooks -- 'Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi': the Second Boer War 1899-1901 / Arthur Bleby -- The Royal Navy Division 1917-19 / Chris Page -- An unlikely encounter: Norway 1940 / Peter Hore -- Assault on Walcheren: 1944 / Ivor Howcroft -- From Tigre to Tomahawk: the Adriatic revisited, 1999 / Lee Willett. Subjects; Great Britain Royal Navy History. Great Britain Royal Navy. Special operations (Military science) Great Britain History. Royal Navy.
Price: €14.95