Battle at sea
Subtitle: 3,000 years of naval warfare
By: R.G. Grant
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780756671860
Subjects: Naval art and science; Naval history; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The age of galleys, 1200 BCE-1550 CE; title: Overview; title: Early naval battles and the rise of the Greeks; title: The Persian Wars; title: The Peloponnesian War; title: Roman navel warfare; title: The first Punic War; title: Rome achieves mastery of the Mediterranean; title: Naval warfare in Asia; title: China, Japan, and Korea; title: Battles for the Mediterranean; title: Byzantine-Arab Wars; title: The rise of the Italian Maritime Republics; title: The war for Sicily; title: The rise of sail; title: The Vikings; title: Sea battles in Northern Europe; title: The Ottomans; title: Christian navies against the Turks; title: Gan, sail, and empire, 1550-1830; title: Overview; title: Japan and Korea; title: Japanese invasion of Korea; title: Oceanic empires; title: Spanish Wars; title: After the Armada; title: The rise of Dutch sea power; title: Rivalry across the North Sea; title: First Anglo-Dutch War; title: Second Anglo-Dutch War; title: Third Anglo-Dutch War; title: The Sun King's Navy; title: The French Wars; title: Baltic conflicts; title: Sweden fights for domination; title: The Great Northern War; title: The Russo-Swedish War; title: Maintaining British Naval power; title: Royal Navy battles; title: Seven years war; title: The American Revolutionary War; title: The age of Nelson; title: French Revolutionary Wars; title: Napoleonic Wars; title: Early 19th century battles; title: The United States at War; title: Wars of independence; title: Later Ottoman battles; title: Steam and steel, 1830-1918; title: Overview; title: New Navies of Europe; title: European Wars: from sail to steam; title: Gunboat imperialism; title: The Americas at war; title: The American Civil War; title: Spanish and Latin-American conflicts; title: Rise of the Imperial Japanese Navy; title: Japanese naval might; title: The Russo-Japanese War; title: World War I; title: Warship battles, 1914-18; title: The U-Boat War, 1914-18; title: Carriers, submarines and missiles, 1918-present; title: Overview; title: Europe between the wars; title: World War II: The West; title: Warship battles 1939-45; title: The U-boat war 1939-45; title: Evacuations and landings; title: War in the Mediterranean; title: World War II: The Pacific; title: The Japanese offensive; title: The battle for Guadalcanal; title: Drive to victory; title: Postwar conflicts; title: Cold war conflicts; title: The Vietnam War; title: The Falklands War; title: Regional conflicts; title: Middle East and Terrorism.