War at Sea – Essays on Naval Warfare 1776 to 1945

War at Sea – Essays on Naval Warfare 1776 to 1945

War at Sea – Essays on Naval Warfare 1776 to 1945
Sunbury Press, May 2023
ISBN: 979-8888190739
Audible, Beacon Audio Books, January 2024

War at Sea
Essays on Naval Warfare 1776 – 1945
By Mark Carlson

In the first days when men put to sea in ships, wars have been all but inevitable. From the ancient times of oar-driven galleys, through the age of sail, and into the steam era, , ships have grown larger, more complex and powerful. The history of war at sea is as fluid as the seas on which they fought. Every year, every decade every century brought new innovations and improvements.

This book is a compilation of twenty-one essays presented in chronological order from the days of the American Revolution, the Napoleonic and Barbary Wars,  Civil and Spanish-American Wars, the Great War, and through the end of the Second World War.

Here the author, a contributor to several naval and military history publications, has assembled a collection  of articles on naval history involving the age of sail, the dawn of the ironclad, the rise and fall of the battleship, submarines and carrier warfare in a way that not only educates, but entertains any student of military history.

Here readers will meet some of the most intriguing and memorable, and in some cases, infamous commanders who waged war at sea. Nelson, Decatur, Langsdorff, Halsey, and Nagumo, to name a few. Epic and savage battles between ships of the line, frigates, submarines, destroyers, battleships and aircraft carriers changed how war was fought over a span of 169 years. From that fateful day the Royal Navy was defeated at the Battle of the Capes in 1781 to the moment the mighty super battleship Yamato exploded in a fiery cataclysm in 1945, the saga of war at sea is not to be forgotten.