Nelsons Sailors (Warrior, 100)
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Nelsons Sailors (Warrior, 100)
Book Details
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- France
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN-13
- 9781841769066
- ISBN-10
- 1841769061
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ISBN: 1841769061
Author: Fremont-Barnes, Gregory
Condition: Used
Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of the ordinary sailors of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), detailing their attitudes, duties, comforts, hardships, vices and virtues. The popular image of the British sailor of this time is of a press-ganged wretch living off weevil-infested food, motivated only by prize money and facing constant hazards aboard a floating hell, where discipline was maintained by the lash. The extent to which this enduring image accords with reality is revealed here.
- Reference Book | Book has slight yellowing
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