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War at sea : a shipwrecked history from antiquity to the Cold War /

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"The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless, others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are the battles that claimed them, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delgado, James P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Shipwrecks.
Underwater archaeology.
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Rome and beyond
  • The age of gunpowder
  • The age of sail
  • Colonial conflicts in the Americas
  • Iron and steam
  • The race to global war
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • The Cold War and beyond.