Watts, Anthony J., — THE ROYAL NAVY - An Illustrated History.
Brockhampton Press, London, 1999, 256pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured decorated laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, re-issue of an original Arms and Armour publication, a factually detailed and technically accurate narrative study of the history of the Royal Navy in the modern age, from the aftermath of Trafalgar with Britain firmly established as the leading Naval power in the world through two world wars and many 'police' actions to the South Atlantic and the recovery of the Falklands, with numerous photographs in text, line drawings and tracks of ship engagements, etc, of dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
