6 edition of The line upon a wind found in the catalog.
The line upon a wind
NoГ«l Mostert
Published
2008
by W.W. Norton & Co. in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Other titles | Great war at sea, 1793-1815 |
| Statement | Noel Mostert. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DC226.4 .M68 2008 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xxv, 774 p., [16] p. : |
| Number of Pages | 774 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL23086601M |
| ISBN 10 | 0393066533 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780393066531 |
| LC Control Number | 2007039313 |
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The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, Author: Noel Mostert. This was to be the longest, hardest and cruellest war ever fought at sea and while the war on land saw the rise of the greatest soldier ever known - Napoleon Buonaparte - the war at sea had the formidable genius of Horatio Nelson.
In The Line Upon A Wind, Noel Mostert has achieved a work of unparalleled research and illuminating : Noel Mostert. The Line Upon A Wind, The Great War at Sea Noel Mostert. (NY: Norton, ). pages. Notes, biblio., maps, illus. ISBN: Until World War I, to Britons the 22 year naval war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France was the “Great War”.
(p. xxiv). Trafalgar, the Nile, Cape St. Vincent and a world.Equally significant is Mostert's presentation of the war at sea as a high-tech operation: the ship of the line developed in Europe was the most complex technological artifact of its day, requiring.
