The Black Battlefleet by Admiral G. A. Ballard (PT91)

Published 1980: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original tan cloth wilt gilt titles on the cover and spine and original pictorial dust jacket in removable protective wraps. 261 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. (PT91)

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foreword by Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Magesterial account of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy.

The culmination of almost twenty years' research by the author, this is a standard reference on the evolution of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy. Crucially, Ballard was an eye-witness of the latter part of the period of which he wrote; even in 1929 there were not many men remaining with such experience first-hand. Much of the text appeared first as an extended series of papers in 'The Mariner's Mirror' from 1929 until the author's death in 1948. Google Books.