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9780870216312 | Naval Inst Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: Deals with specific characteristics of ships such as hull design and construction, decoration, masts and yards, sails and rigging, and accommodation and armament. Appendixes contain rigging lists, contract specifications, methods of sheathing and many other related subjects...read more
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9780851772875, titled "Ship of the Line: Design, Construction and Fittings" | Potomac Books Inc, January 1, 1998, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Deals with specific characteristics of ships such as hull design and construction, decoration, masts and yards, sails and rigging, and accommodation and armament.
9780870219535 | Naval Inst Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $34.95

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9780870211485 | Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $32.95

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9780870210099 | Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $75.00

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9780870215834 | Naval Inst Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $37.95

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Sweeping, encyclopedic, and full of powerful images, this large-format celebration of Lord Nelson's Royal Navy covers the design and construction of navel vessels as well as navigation, steering, battle tactics, and gunnery techniques employed by Nelson's men. Reprint. (Military History) (view table of contents)
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9780870212581 | Naval Inst Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: First published in 1990, this encyclopedic yet highly readable work gives an indepth description of the Royal Navy in Lord Nelson's time.

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9781591146117, titled "Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1793-1815" | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Sweeping, encyclopedic, and full of powerful images, this large-format celebration of Lord Nelson's Royal Navy covers the design and construction of navel vessels as well as navigation, steering, battle tactics, and gunnery techniques employed by Nelson's men.

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9781557500786 | Naval Inst Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $44.95

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By Brian Lavery (contributor)
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9780820114811 | Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint, June 1, 1993, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: "I will be a hero, and confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger!" Nelson was 18 in 1776 when he made this declaration. By the time of his death in 1805 he had established himself as a brilliant fighting commander and naval tactician...read more
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9781856690614 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "I will be a hero, and confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger!

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9780302006542 | Zwemmer, December 1, 1995, cover price $80.00

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Product Description: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781557506405 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet.
9781861760401 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet.

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By Brian Lavery (editor)
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9781840142280 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 1998, cover price $104.95

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Product Description: Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood and transport. A fascinating view of an often overlooked aspect of history.
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9780713485837 | B T Batsford Ltd, December 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood and transport.
9780713485202 | B T Batsford Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood and transport.

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Product Description: The '74' was the classic line-of-battle ship of the late eighteenth century, and Bellona was one of the most important and long lived. Launched in 1760, during the Seven Years War, she belonged to the first truly successful class of British 74-gun ships, a design by Thomas Slade that was built in large numbers over more than twenty years...read more
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9780851779164, titled "The 74-Gun Ship Bellona" | Revised edition (Conway Maritime Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The '74' was the classic line-of-battle ship of the late eighteenth century, and Bellona was one of the most important and long lived.

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Product Description: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was undoubtedly Britain's greatest naval leader and perhaps the greatest sea commander of all time. Although his complex character often made him enemies and led to mistakes in both his public and private life, he was an unrivaled seaman, an original and brave tactician, and a charismatic leader...read more
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9780814751909 | New York Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was undoubtedly Britain's greatest naval leader and perhaps the greatest sea commander of all time.

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Explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester, showing how the life of real naval heroes compares to that portrayed in novels and films.
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9781591144038 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: No fiction writer of modern times has captured the world of wooden walls, broadsides, and the press gang as successfully as Patrick O’Brian.

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9781591144021 | Naval Inst Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.

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Product Description: Published on the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, this handsomely illustrated book paints a vibrant picture of the most famous battle of the age of sail. Unlike other books on the subject, which are told mostly from Nelson's point of view or evaluate the battle's effect on world strategy, this definitive new assessment sees the battle through the eyes of other individuals involved...read more
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9781591146100 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Published on the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, this handsomely illustrated book paints a vibrant picture of the most famous battle of the age of sail.
9780948065491 | Natl Maritime Museum, December 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was the most famous of the age of sail, and the last in the long series between Britain and France.

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Product Description: This, the first of a two-volume study, outlines the history and technical development of the battlefleet from 1650-1850. The story of the line-of-battle ship is described in terms of individual vessels and classes, highlighting the factors influencing specific changes in design.
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9780851772523 | Conway Maritime Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This, the first of a two-volume study, outlines the history and technical development of the battlefleet from 1650-1850.

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Product Description: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet...read more
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9781840675221 | Caxton Editions, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet.

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Product Description: From dugout canoes and the boats of the Ancient Egyptians to battleships and modern cruise liners, Ship looks at every aspect of water-going vessels and the people who have sailed them. Now in compact paperback!
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9780756604967 | Dk Pub, October 18, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This visual study captures more than five thousand years of maritime history, ranging from the primitive vessels of antiquity to the high-tech military ships and cruise liners of the present day.

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9780756667412 | Dk Pub, August 16, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From dugout canoes and the boats of the Ancient Egyptians to battleships and modern cruise liners, Ship looks at every aspect of water-going vessels and the people who have sailed them.

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Product Description: What does it mean to be an island people? How has our rich and complex relationship with the sea shaped our national psyche? This beautifully illustrated exploration of Britain's maritime history sets out to discuss these questions...read more
By Brian Lavery and Ellen Macarthur (foreword by)
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9781844860166 | Conway Maritime Pr, July 19, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be an island people?

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Product Description: Examining the largely overlooked history of River-class frigates, this comprehensive, groundbreaking study seeks to reinstate the reputation of these important ships and the role they played in the Second World War. With attention to detail and painstaking research, the book draws on evidence from ship plans, naval documents, and eyewitness accounts to present a complete and exhaustive study of the River-class and the people who worked on them...read more
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9780948065736 | Natl Maritime Museum, September 1, 2006, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Examining the largely overlooked history of River-class frigates, this comprehensive, groundbreaking study seeks to reinstate the reputation of these important ships and the role they played in the Second World War.

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Product Description: The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is an epic story of heroism and defiance, of stinging defeats but glorious triumphs. Typically books tend to concentrate on the battle history of the navy, and of course this book also examines this topic from convoys to amphibious war, from submarine operations to the last gunnery battles in the Atlantic...read more
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9781844860357 | Naval Inst Pr, October 25, 2006, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is an epic story of heroism and defiance, of stinging defeats but glorious triumphs.

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Product Description: What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson? Were that sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvey? How did life compare between those of a high rank, and those who served them? What were conditions like below the decks, living among the rats and the filth? How did you cope if you suffered from sea sickness? This book takes you back in time to see, hear, smell and taste what life was really like for these brave sailors at sea...read more
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9780750947763 | Sutton Pub Ltd, February 16, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson?

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Product Description: One of Britain's top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill's wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill's navy. Entirely original in his approach, Lavery considers the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war...read more
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9781591141037 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: One of Britain's top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill's wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill's navy.

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