THE BOOK OF BRITISH VICTORIES No. 1 - EXPLOITS ON THE SEA
Written by Sydney Walton
Published by The Syndicate Publishing Co.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- MARITIME
- MAPS
THE BOOK OF BRITISH VICTORIES No. 1 - EXPLOITS ON THE SEA
Written by Sydney Walton.
Stock no. 1823578
Circa.
1914.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Title on front is: 1588 to 1914 Album-Atlas of British Victories on the Sea "Wooden Walls to Super-Dreadnoughts". Paper covered boards, Cloth spine. Maps of british victories from 1588 (Spanish Armada) to 1855 (wars with Russia). B/w photos and illustrations. 31 pages including inside rear cover. Boards discoloured, rubbed at edges. Two names in pencil to inside front cover 'Signatures of the Brave'. Binding is a little loose with small tear to rear gutter edge of spine. Contents lightly browned with minor foxing.
Front cover
Contents
- SOME OF THE CONTENTS
- Sovereignty of the Seas: The Undying Story
- Spanish Armada
- Wars with Spain
- Wars with Dutch
- Special Map of Europe, with Portraits of HM King George V, President Poincare and Czar Nicholas II and the Flags of the Allies printed in Colours
- The Kaiser's Europe
- Wars with France
- The Glorious First of June
- Wars with France, Spain and Holland
- Britain's Sea-strength in Silhouette
- Napoleonic Wars
- Trafalgar's Famous Signal, Explanatory Flags
- How to Join the Great Sea Service
- Victorian Naval Engagements
- Wars with Russia
- Admiral Jellicoe's Flagship and North Sea Fighting
- King Edward VII and George V on board the "Dreadnought"
- A British Bluejacket at the Gun's Mouth
- Makers of the Modern Navy
- Navies of the World
- Mines, Minelayers, Submarines and Seaplanes