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Jack Tar : Life in Nelson's Navy by Roy and Lesley Adkins
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determinatio ...Show more
Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen in Nelson's Navy by Roy Adkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determinatio ...Show more
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The period 1798 to 1815 - the Napoleonic Wars - has just about everything that you could wish for in a book on naval history - large fleet actions such as the Battle of the Nile and Copenhagen; many duels between pairs or small groups of ships, such as the Shannon and Chesapeake; combined operations lik ...Show more
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
As France emerged from revolution, a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, hoping next to march overland to India. It would not happen. Britain swung her forces into action to battle for control of the world's sea-lanes and thus all international trade. The Battle of the Nile and then at ...Show more
Trafalgar : The Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A superbly researched, gripping account of the most important naval battle in British history, which thwarted Napoleon at sea and created a national hero in Nelson. This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of t ...Show more
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