Nelson's Sailors, Warrior 100, Osprey
- Brand: Osprey
- Product Code: D19643 [19643]
- Availability: Available upon request within 20 - 40 days.
- Date added: 29/06/2021
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18.00€
NELSON'S SAILORS
Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of the ordinary sailors of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), detailing their attitudes, duties, comforts, hardships, vices and virtues. The popular image of the British sailor of this time is of a press-ganged wretch living off weevil-infested food, motivated only by prize money and facing constant hazards aboard a floating hell, where discipline was maintained by the lash. The extent to which this enduring image accords with reality is revealed here.
Author: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Illustrator: Steve Noon
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Description: 64 pages, Paperback, 247 X 184 mm.
Condition: NEW COPY
Shipping weight: 370 gr.