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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: New book by Noel Mostert |
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Just published: The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail - 1793-1815 by Noel Mostert.
I checked it in a bookshop and was disappointed.
Mostert uses no modern sources. Nothing since 1989!
For Trafalgar he recommends the 1906 book by Edward Fraser (and nothing else) and he lavishly quote from Mahan (writing in the 1920s).
I didn't buy it (the shopkeeper wasn't too happy).
I recommend instead a concurrent book: The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy and Lesley Adkins. It's coming in paperback at the end of this month. |
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