DEFIANCE AT SEA (Hbk)

Defiance at Sea" presents fourteen true-life stories of "last stands" afloat - valiant sea fights in the face of daunting odds. Here are tales of heroism and hard fighting, spanning the centuries of sea warfare from 1591 to 1982. For this volume the author has chosen dramatic examples of such warfare, beginning with the Elizabethan age of sail, the daring of Nelson two hundred years later, through to the last Century with underwater and surface events vividly described. Included are: Grenville's "Revenge" at Flores, 1591 * Barfleur and La Hogue in 1692 * Nelson at Cape Saint Vincent in 1797 * USS "Constitution", 1862 * SMS "Emden", 1914 * HM Submarine B11, 1914 * The pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer", 1940-1941 * Badoeng Strait 1942 * SS "Stephen Hopkins" 1942 * HMIS "Bengal" in the Cocos Islands, 1942 * Tassafaronga, 1942 * Samar, 1944 * ARA "San Luis" in The Falklands, 1982.