The Counter Armada 1596: The Journal of the Mary Rose by Stephen Usherwood; Elizabeth Usherwood - 1983-10

U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. LIKE NEW COPY. military hist..

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr, 1983. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Browning to page edges. Previous owner name stamp in two places.

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr, 1983. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Browning to page edges. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 176 pages. Illustrations. Index. Decorative DJ, with some wear and tears. A Journal kept on board the Mary Rose brings vividly to life the preparations in the fleet and at court, the shipboard routines meticulously detailed, the deliberations of the commanders, the landing and assault on the city, the successful withdrawal. It is all here, for the writer was Sir George Carew, a member of the Council of War, and so able to give us a privileged view of this, the most ambitious and highly co-ordinated Anglo-Dutch operation mounted from Britain before the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough. Hitherto there has been no objective account of this once-famous exploit. The key to its true history lies in a thirty-eight-page manuscript. This is a log with entries made from day to day between Easter Sunday 1596, when the author took leave of the Queen at Greenwich and went to join his ship at Dover. The… Read More