Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen in Nelson's Navy by Roy A. Adkins, Lesley Adkins

Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen in Nelson's Navy

Roy A. Adkins, Lesley Adkins

391 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy...

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