TRAFALGAR: COUNTDOWN TO BATTLE 1803-1805 by Alan Schom - 01/01/1990

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London: Michael Joseph. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. Hard Cover. 8vo 0718131991 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.Map end papers. Photographs on plates. 432 pages clean and tight. A look at the two years leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar - from 1803, when Napoleon gave orders for the creation of an army and flotilla to invade England, until the battle itself. Schom gives a complete picture of this time - the influences, planning and, most important, the personalities that assembled and defeated the largest European army seen until World War I. .

1990 3 Maps. 54 Illus. 430 Pages. 15 x 23cms. Good in D/W Description of the intense 29-month campaign waged by the Royal Navy to thwart a French invasion of Great Britain culminating in the Battle of Trafalgar. Notes & sources from archival material in England & France. 3 appendices including biographicalsketches. Index. End-paper maps.

London: Michael Joseph, 1990. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.421

This is a first edition of Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle 1803-1805, by the American historian Alan Schom.From a review, which calls it 'riveting and lively':The Battle of 21 October 1805, a meeting of the might of the British and French navies, was the result of a strategy laid out by the British Admiralty two years earlier, in 1803. The period from that year until the Battle of Trafalgar was known as 'the Great Terror', when British naval forces were on constant alert for attacks by the French. Various political figures are written about, debating manoeuvers and quota of ships to be constructed, and putting down mutinies. There is also a comprehensive discussion of the growth of the French naval fleet, helped by Dutch ships, and the preparations to build ports, which were hampered by their extraordinary costs and inclement weather. He also debunks several myths which should put an end to certain debates pertaining to a great battle of modern history. This book has not been read, but the front… Read More