Author: Brigadier Michael Calvert DSO and Brigadier Peter Young DSO.MC
Publisher: New English Library
Year published: 1978
Pagination: xii + 358pp, 24 maps
Condition: Good in dw
An account of six debilitating wars from the end of the Marlborough Wars to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The author considers the dominance of the British Navy, the rise of the British Empire, the expansion of Russia. He goes on to study the skill of Frederick the Great and the great individual commanders including Napoleon, Nelson, Clive, Washington, Wellington and Marshall de Saxe.
