Delgado James P. (Maritime Archaeologist Maritime Archaeologist)
Delgado James P. (Maritime Archaeologist Maritime Archaeologist) - War At Sea A Shipwrecked History From Antiquity To The Twentieth Century - Hardcover
Delgado James P. (Maritime Archaeologist Maritime Archaeologist) - War At Sea A Shipwrecked History From Antiquity To The Twentieth Century - Hardcover
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Description: The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. It is also our greatest graveyard. Resting in its depths lay the lost ships of war spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless others from more recent times are remembered honored even as are the battles they fought like Actium Trafalgar Tsushima Jutland Pearl Harbor and Midway. This book is a dramatic global tour of the vast underwater museum of lost warships. It is also an account of how underwater exploration has discovered them resolving mysteries adding to our understanding of the past and providing intimate details of the life of war at sea. Arranged chronologically the book begins with ancient times and the warships and battles of the Egyptians Phoenicians Greeks and Romans the Chinese and progresses through three thousand years to the lost ships of the Cold War. In bringing this violent past to life James Delgado's approach is informed by scholarship but it is not academic. Through his insights as an explorer archaeologist and story teller Delgado provides a unique and idiosyncratic history of naval warfare the evolution of its strategy and technology and it critical impact on the past. From fallen triremes and galleons to dreadnoughts aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines this book vividly brings naval warfare to life.
Title: War At Sea A Shipwrecked History From Antiquity To The Twentieth Century
Author(s): Delgado James P. (Maritime Archaeologist Maritime Archaeologist)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190888015
Pages: 488 Pages, 100 B/W Halftones, 40 Line Drawings, With 16 Page Insert
Publication Date: 8/1/2019
Category: Naval Forces & Warfare
Description: The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. It is also our greatest graveyard. Resting in its depths lay the lost ships of war spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless others from more recent times are remembered honored even as are the battles they fought like Actium Trafalgar Tsushima Jutland Pearl Harbor and Midway. This book is a dramatic global tour of the vast underwater museum of lost warships. It is also an account of how underwater exploration has discovered them resolving mysteries adding to our understanding of the past and providing intimate details of the life of war at sea. Arranged chronologically the book begins with ancient times and the warships and battles of the Egyptians Phoenicians Greeks and Romans the Chinese and progresses through three thousand years to the lost ships of the Cold War. In bringing this violent past to life James Delgado's approach is informed by scholarship but it is not academic. Through his insights as an explorer archaeologist and story teller Delgado provides a unique and idiosyncratic history of naval warfare the evolution of its strategy and technology and it critical impact on the past. From fallen triremes and galleons to dreadnoughts aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines this book vividly brings naval warfare to life.
Title: War At Sea A Shipwrecked History From Antiquity To The Twentieth Century
Author(s): Delgado James P. (Maritime Archaeologist Maritime Archaeologist)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190888015
Pages: 488 Pages, 100 B/W Halftones, 40 Line Drawings, With 16 Page Insert
Publication Date: 8/1/2019
Category: Naval Forces & Warfare
