Binding: Paperback
Description: The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless others from more recent times are remembered honored even as are the battles that claimed them like Actium Trafalgar Tsushima Jutland Pearl Harbor and Midway. Underwater exploration is increasingly discovering long - lost warships from the deepest parts of the ocean revealing a vast undersea museum that speaks to battles won and lost service sacrifice and the human costs of warfare. War at Sea is a dramatic global tour of this remote museum and other formerly lost traces of humanity's naval heritage. It is also an account by the world's leading naval archaeologist of how underwater exploration has discovered these remains thus resolving mysteries adding to our understanding of the past and providing intimate details of the experience of naval warfare. Arranged chronologically the book begins with the warships and battles of the ancient Egyptians Phoenicians Greeks Romans and Chinese and then progresses through three thousand years to the lost ships of the Cold War. James Delgado who has personally explored dived and studied a number of the wrecks and sites in the book provides insights as an explorer archaeologist and storyteller. The result is a unique and compelling history of naval warfare. From fallen triremes and galleons to dreadnoughts aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines this book vividly brings thousands of years of naval warfare to life.
Title: War At Sea A Shipwrecked History From Antiquity To The Twentieth Century
Author(s): Delgado James P. (Maritime Archaeologist Maritime Archaeologist)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780197609231
Pages: 488 Pages, 100 B/W Halftones, 40 Line Drawings, With 16 Page Insert
Publication Date: 11/15/2021
Category: Naval Forces & Warfare