Brian Lavery

First published in 1998, this volume explores the Royal Navy which had most of its greatest triumphs in the decades up to 1815, but has received relatively little study of its social life and shipboard administration, beyond popular myth and sensational accounts. Meer

The first book to deal in detail with the development and uses of royal yachts. Meer

Prequel to the author's 40,000-copy bestseller Nelson's Navy Meer

A new paperback edition of a now well-established work. Close-ups, details and thematic spreads that shed unique light on the process of warship contruction. Meer