ILLUSTRATED COMPANION TO NELSON'S NAVY (Pbk)

No other period of history has spawned such a huge fictional oeuvre as the Nelsonian era: Forester, Pope, Kent, Woodman and O'Brian are a few of the authors whose heroes have fought the French at sea. The genre has fascinated millions of readers and this is the first book which explains, with reference to the novels, how those heroes really lived. The book brings vividly to life the whole shipboard world of the seaman and also explains the workings of the Royal Navy, then the largest executive operation in the Western world. Succinct texts and over five hundred illustrations offer a mine of information.