TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES OF SEA WARFARE by Mordal, Jacques (translated by Len Ortzen) - 1973

London: Abbey Library, 1973. (xix) 419 pp. Blue boards decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated with maps and drawings by Michel Fontaine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a bit of fading on the spine; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Part One: In Time of Oars and Sails: The Naval Battles of Antiquity; The Coming of the Normans; The Battle of South Foreland; The Battle of Sluys; The Battle of Lepanto; The Invincible Armada Limps Home in Despair; De Ruyter - the Man Worth an Army; From Beachy Head to Barfleur Point; Britain's Command of the Seas; The Battle of Chesapeake Bay; The First Actions of the Russian Navy; The Great Naval Battles of the Napoleonic Wars; Copenhagen - the Battle Where Disobedience Paid; The Campaign of Trafalgar; Navarino; The Massacre at Sinope; Privateers and Ironclads in the American Civil War; Lissa - Where Ramming - or Morale - Won the Day; The First Torpedo Attacks; American Victories at Manila and Santiago; The Russians' Long Haul to Tsoushima and Disaster; From Coronel to Jutland; The Cruise of the Emden. Part Two: Great Battles in World War Two: The Second World War; The Battle of the River Plate; Matapan and Alexandria - British Victory and Italian Revenge; German Submarines and the Battle of the Atlantic; The Massacre of Convoy PQ.17; and The Battle of Midway; followed by Chief Dates in Sea Warfare; an index; and an index of ships.. First Translated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Michel Fontaine. 8vo. Book.