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Defiance at sea : dramatic naval war action / Jon Guttman.
LIBRA D27 .G88 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guttman, Jon.
- Series:
- Cassell military classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval battles.
- History.
- Naval battles--History.
- Naval history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Nilsson, William F., Jr. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Cassell, 1998.
- Summary:
- These 14 vivid tales of maritime warfare and daring span the centuries from 1591 to 1982. Go along with Grenville on the Revenge on a doomed mission as he and his British shipmates take on a Spanish fleet -- alone. Then sail with Barfleur and the French at La Hogue (1693), Captain Nelson at Cape St. Vincent (1792), and the USS Constitution in the War of 1812. 14 battles in all.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London: Arms & Armour, 1995.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Ex Libris Nautica copy presented to the Penn Libraries by LT. CMDR. William F. Nilsson, Jr., USNR (Ret.).
- ISBN:
- 0304350850
- 9780304350858
- OCLC:
- 39677880
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