Warships And Their Story
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9780548042953
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Military - Naval; History / Military / Naval; History - Military / War
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.