Author: Hill, Richard,
Title: WAR AT SEA IN THE IRONCLAD AGE.
Description: Cassell, London, 2002, trade paperback, 240pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills., maps, line drawings and diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in the Cassell History of Warfare series, an account of the rapidly changing technology of warships when reliable steam engines and ships built of iron and steel made the sailing ship redundant and gave those with the most modern navies the power to acquire and control overseas empires, lightly rubbed at tips, light diag. crease lower cnr., very good,

Keywords: war navy maritime ironclad steam steamship iron steel


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