QUIBERON BAY, the Campaign in Home Waters, 1759
by Geoffrey Marcus
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Top dust jacket edge has short tears. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hollis & Carter, London 1960 Hardcover, 22cms x 14½cms, with dust jacket Top dust jacket edge has short tears. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Just over two centuries ago Great Britain and France were engaged in a desperate struggle for maritime, commercial and colonial supremacy (the Seven Years' War). It culminated in a naval battle off the French mainland (Quiberon Bay), during which extraordinary naval tactics by the British resulted in a demoralising, overwhelming loss by the French naval forces, and severe repercussions on their colonial aspirations. Coloured frontispiece illustration, maps and portraits
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43042
- Title
- QUIBERON BAY, the Campaign in Home Waters, 1759
- Author
- Geoffrey Marcus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 22cms x 14½cms, with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Top dust jacket edge has short tears. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hollis & Carter, London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 212 pages
- Keywords
- Naval history Quiberon Bay Seven Years' War Admiral Hawke
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McCrae, Victoria
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