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A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping.Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, and their detail and usefulness have increased over the centuries as the science of mapping has developed.This beautiful book examines stunning original maps from a series of key conflicts from the Spanish Armada, the American Wars of Independence, and the Napoleonic wars to twentieth century conflicts from the First World War to Vietnam, and explains how they were represented through mapping and how the maps produced helped naval commanders to plan their strategy.
Jeremy Black, internationally known military historian and Professor of History at the University of Exeter, is the author of The Cold War: A Military History, Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and its Legacy and Metropolis, among many others. He is also a keen writer on maps and their history.
1. Origins To 17002. The Eighteenth Century3. The Nineteenth Century4. 1900 To 19185. 1919 To 19456. 1946 To 2017IndexList Of Maps And IllustrationsImage Credits
Jeremy Black, Jaap R. Bruijn, Christer Ericsson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Bo Franzén, Mats Hallenberg, Marika Hedin, Orsi Husz, Arne Jarrick, Ulf Jonsson, Gunner Lind, Enrique Martínez Ruiz, Leos Müller, Jonas Nordin, Magdalena de Pazzis Pi Corrales, Johan Söderberg, Maria Wallenberg Bondesson, Klas Åmark, Gunnar Åselius, Anna Maria Forssberg, Mats Hallenberg, Orsi Husz, Jonas Nordin