Mapping Naval Warfare

A visual history of conflict at sea

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Description

A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping.

Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, and their detail and usefulness have increased over the centuries as the science of mapping has developed.

This beautiful book examines stunning original maps from a series of key conflicts from the Spanish Armada, the American Wars of Independence, and the Napoleonic wars to twentieth century conflicts from the First World War to Vietnam, and explains how they were represented through mapping and how the maps produced helped naval commanders to plan their strategy.

Table of Contents

1. Origins To 1700
2. The Eighteenth Century
3. The Nineteenth Century
4. 1900 To 1918
5. 1919 To 1945
6. 1946 To 2017

Index
List Of Maps And Illustrations
Image Credits

Product details

Published Feb 22 2018
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9781472831385
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the Univer…

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