Shares dramatic eyewitness accounts from more than 2,500 years of naval history, from the Battle of Salamis as recorded by Thucydides in 378 B.C., to the endeavors of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, to the carrier operations of the 1991 Gulf War. Original.

From the Battle of Salamis, as told by Thucydides, to carrier operations during the 1991 Gulf War, the changing nature of recorded naval warfare is explored here in its entirety. Here in the words of those who fought them are all of history's greatest naval engagements. Some of these first-hand accounts give an overview of the whole arena of the engagement from those in command; others come from the non-commissioned officers and men on the spot, whose immediate concerns are directly alongside them in the field. More than 50 maps give an objective reality to these personal narratives by showing the location and strategic development of these sea battles. starting with the classical world, where galleys ruled the seas. It progresses to the age of sail and battles like the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of Copenhagen and the battle of Trafalgar. From here to ironclads and dreadnoughts, taking in the American Civil War as well as both World Wars. The modern era encompasses torpedoes, including submarines and the flat tops that brought air power to the world's oceans.

This text contains eyewitness accounts of the battles, the hardships, and the excitement of naval service during the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812 - a time when combat at sea was won, not by technology but by sheer courage, wit and endurance.

Arranged chonologically, collects one hundred eyewitness accounts of history's greatest battles.

A collection of firsthand accounts of real-life naval adventures draws from period memoirs, diaries, and personal correspondence to provide eyewitness accounts of seminal naval engagements--including the 1798 Battle of the Nile and the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar--and to offer a revealing glimpse of harsh conditions and perils of daily life aboard ship. Original.

Minute-by-minute eyewitness accounts of 'Britain's finest hour' Trafalgar set the seal on British naval supremacy, the most strategically significant victory in the age of sail. It was also one of the bloodiest and most confused naval conflicts ever known, with English, American, Irish, Spanish and French seamen among choking fumes and in constant peril below and above decks. This is the largest eyewitness collection of the battle, with over 50 first-hand accounts from all those involved. Accounts include: Nelson Sends the Signal 'England Expects That Every Man. This Day Will Do His Duty', 11.56am, 21 October 1805 Lieutenant George Brown, HMS Victory The First Shots: Fougueux Engages Royal Sovereign, 12:00 noon Captain Pierre Servaux, Master of Arms, Fougueux Guillemard Shoots Admiral Nelson, 1.25pm Sergeant Robert Guillemard, Redoubtable 'Our Sides Grinding So Much Against Each Other that We Were Obliged to Fire the Lower-Deck Guns Without Running Them Out':

Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest naval historians.World War II at Sea is his crowning achievement, a narrative of the entire war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas between 1939 and 1945.Here are the major engagements and their interconnections: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the scuttling of the French Navy; the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords and Mussolini's Regia Marina; the rise of the KidoButai and Pearl Harbor; the landings in North Africa and New Guinea, then on Normandy and Iwo Jima. Symonds offers indelible portraits of the great naval leaders - FDR and Churchill (self-proclaimed "Navy men"), Karl Donitz, Francois Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Louis Mountbatten, andWilliam Halsey - while acknowledging the countless seamen and officers of all nationalities whose lives were lost during the greatest naval conflicts ever fought. World War II at Sea is history on a truly epic scale.