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Storm and conquest: the battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

By Stephen , Taylor

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN
9780571295685, 0571295681
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7014480 bytes)
Pages
400 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Indian Ocean Region;Indi1800-1815--Campaigns--Indian Ocean Region;StrategiHISTORY--Europe--Great Britain;HISTORY--Modern--19Naval -- 19Naval -- 19th century;France -- History

Description

The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern seas. All shared a need to prove themselves - to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which could be at once magnificent and terrifying.

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