About this title: Novelists from C. S. Forester to Patrick O'Brian have glorified Nelson's dashing frigate captains, but how much of their story is true? The author of this new volume on the nature of frigate command argues that the legend was very close to reality. Based on detailed studies of the appointments, training, and promotion of the Royal Navy's officer corps, he contends that frigate commanders were an elite group whose careers followed separate paths from their contemporaries. They exhibited specific and highly prized skills that were rewarded with fast-track promotions and resulted in the creation ...
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Description: Annapolis, 2001 Naval Institute. first US edition, Fine/Fine condition, hard bound in dust jacket, 6x9, 256 pages, illus, notes, bibliog, index................................... from C. S. Forester to Patrick O'Brian have glorified Nelson's dashing frigate captains, but how much of their story is true? The author of this new volume on the nature of frigate command argues that the legend was very close to reality. Based on detailed studies of the appointments, training, and promotion of the ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Bo
Publisher: Chatham Publishing, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781861761699ISBN:1861761694
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A well researched and detailed account of the captains of the Frigates of the navy during the Napoleonic wars. Essential reading on the topic. 256pp. read more
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""The Star Captains" is well worth reading for any military historian of the Napoleanic Wars or of the Royal Navy. It gives a great deal of background information for those whose only exposure to the subject has been the fictional exploits of Hoatio Hornblower, et al. Unfortunately, its a little long on tables of figures, but equally short on human details or anecdotal material. While Mr. Wareham's statistical compendia are no doubt the result of long and arduous research, the book would profit from a bit less of them, and some more details of the frigate cruises that form the basis of the book."
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