Название: The Age of Fighting Sail
Автор: C. S. Forester
Издательство: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Год: 1956
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 50,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
The story of the Naval War of 1812. For a young republic to pick a fight with the country from which she had just won a new freedom a few years before must have appeared as folly in 1812. England was Queen of the Seas and seemed a heavy favorite to win any naval war started by a stripling nation armed with nothing that could be dignified by the term "navy."