Tunstall, Brian

Naval Warfare Inn the Age of Sail The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815

Hardcover, Edison, New Jersey: Wellfleet Press, 2001. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. This book is based on the life work of naval historian Brian Tunstall. It is edited by Dr. Nicholas Tracy, a specialist historian of the sailing navy. Tunstall covers the entire period in which sailing fleets were the major instrument of naval warfare. He covers the Dutch Wars of the 1600s, the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, and the defeat of Napoleon and the French in the early 1800s. He gives full weight to the Dutch, Spanish, French, and English tactical thinking. Contains numerous illustrations including nearly 150 tactical maps. Book's binding is clean and bright. Interior clean - no previous owner marks. Photographs, maps, illustrations, and texts all bright. Dust jacket is clean and mostly bright with some fading to the spine. Dust jacket has minor wear to all edges, in addition to two 0.25 inch tears to the top edge of the back cover. This is a large and heavy book - Expedited/Priority and International orders will require substantial extra charges in addition to whatever shipping costs this website may quote. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 278 pages. [Item #79199]

Price: $135.00