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Warship in History, The by Philip Cowburn w/ dust jacket
Warship in History by Philip Cowburn
The brilliant, heart-stirring account from river canoe to dreadnought - of man's nobleset instruments of battle.
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Dust jacket has damage - see photos
364 pages
Copyright 1965, Second pringing 1967
CONTENTS
Preface, vii Prologue, xi
I The Ancient World, xi
II The Viking Ship, 31
III The English Warship Before 1600, 43
IV Galleys, Galleasses, and Galleons, 75
V Northwestern European Warships in the Seventeenth Century, 99
VI The British Navy in the Eighteenth Century, 133
VII The American Navy in the Days of Sail, 169
VIII The Nineteenth Century Revolution: Paddle Wheel and Screw Propeller, r85
IX The Nineteenth Century Revolution: The Ironclad Vessel and the Naval Gun, 205
X Early Submarines, Destroyers, and Cruisers, 245
XI The Twentieth Century Battleship, 261
XII The Submarine in War, 303
XIII The Aircraft Carrier, 325
Epilogue, 345
Bibliography, 352
Index, 358
Ship listing, 362
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
This is the story of the ships in which men have gone down to the sea to make war. Filled with pageantry, aflame with heroic deeds, alive with historical personages of monumental proportions, it sweeps down the ages from the Pharaonic fleets of 2900 B.C. to the "fighting ladies," the aircraft carriers of World War II.
Here is a story to delight the heart, the mind, and the imagination of every lover of military and naval lore, from sixteen to seventy. Lavishly illustrated, it vividly relates the history of the ships, and the tactics that have dominated battle on the waves.
Here are the war vessels of antiquity -the ships that cleaved Homer's "wine-dark sea" toward doomed Ilium, the triremes that saved the Greek world at Salamis, the quinqueremes that made the Mediterranean a Roman "lake." Here, too, are the longships of the Vikings and the incredible journeys they made. Here are the origins of the Britannia that was to rule the waves, and the galleys, galleasses, and galleons of the south.
Here are unforgettable pictures of the glories of the great Age of Sail, of Lord Nelson and his "line," John Paul Jones, and a host of other brilliant captains. Here are penetrating descriptions of the naval revolution of the nineteenth century effected by the screw propeller, the ironclad, and the horizon-arching big naval gun. Finally, here is the impressive, and ironic, story of the twentieth century's "ultimate" naval weapons : the Dreadnought, the battleship, the submarine, and the aircraft carrier.
To this magnificent panorama of ships and sea fights the author brings solid knowledge of seamanship and sure powers of evocation. The Warship in History is a volume as delightful to own as it is a pleasure to give.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Born in 1917, when his native England's battleships ruled the waves, Philip Cowburn attended Shrewsbury and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was graduated in Classics and Modern History. During World War II, he rose to the rank of major with the 53rd Reconnaissance Regiment of the Royal Armored Corps, and in 1944 he served as a liaison officer to the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Holland.
He is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department of the Royal Naval College, whose staff he joined in 1948. He has written widely for distinguished historical journals and is the author of Welsh Spearhead, a history of his regiment.
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