The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles
Subtitle: Great Stories and Classic Tales from the Golden Age of Naval Warfare
Contributors: Mike Ashley (Editor); David Donachie (Introduction)
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: September 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780786709144
Subjects: Sea stories, English; War stories, English; History, Naval; Fiction - Historical; War & Military; Fiction; Short Stories (Anthologies); Sea stories; Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Fantasy - Historical; Great Britain
First sentence: Although most of the stories in this anthology are set during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, we start our journey through naval history several years earlier, in fact in the midst of the Seven Years War.