Warships And Their Story
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781417960248
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; Military
First sentence: WHEN did man first entrust himself afloat for purposes of war? and what was the type of vessel he employed? are questions which take us back almost to the earliest stages of historical human progress, concerning which all the knowledge of the antiquaries is but conjectural, a stage so remote that scientists have not yet determined how many thousands of years ago it existed.