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Conway Maritime Press
The Naval History of Great Britain During the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars.
By William James
James’s History, apart from the pages of The navy Chronicle, must be the most all encompassing and detailed account of the operations of the Royal Navy during the period 1793-1827. In these pages you will find the incidents that inspired the Hornblower tales, and characters every bit as daring and courageous as Bolitho, in fact many of the accounts are far stranger than fiction.
At the time of original publication James stirred a right royal furore, when his research concluded that no Royal Navy vessel was ever captured by an American vessel of equal force. Obviously the US navy, flush from recent victories, heavily contested this claim, and the American press undertook a campaign of defamation and debunking against the author. This only drew great attention to James work in Britain, where he quite rightly became recognised as the foremost of naval historians.
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This collection is a reprint of the 1837 Edition, and the prose may seem somewhat strange to the modern reader, however you very quickly become accustomed to the authors style and English usage, and find yourself being drawn deeper and deeper into the detail of the work. And it reads then like an engrossing novel, one that you find difficult to put down, but can be easily read in short bites chapter by chapter.
Published in six magnificent volumes by Conway’s, each book is around 440 pages of pure joy for the naval enthusiast. Excellent and very highly recommended!
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