Sea Warfare
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Published in the midst of the First World War, Sea Warfare is Rudyard Kipling's gripping firsthand account of the Royal Navy's desperate and heroic struggle for dominance of the seas. Commissioned by the Admiralty, Kipling chronicles the perilous operations of British destroyers, submarines, and mine-sweepers, painting vivid portraits of the officers and ordinary men who faced death daily beneath storm-lashed waves and beneath the constant threat of enemy torpedoes and mines. Written with the same muscular prose and sharp eye for human detail that defined Kipling's celebrated fiction, Sea Warfare stands as both a work of urgent wartime reportage and a lasting tribute to naval courage. Kipling argues, with unflinching clarity, that the war at sea — unglamorous, invisible, and relentless — was as decisive as any trench campaign on the Western Front. For readers of military history and admirers of Kipling's literary legacy alike, this rare volume raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of civilisation's survival rested on the shoulders of men the world would never see?
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Format: Hardback
Published: 1916, Macmillan and Co., Limited
Genre: WW1
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Published in the midst of the First World War, Sea Warfare is Rudyard Kipling's gripping firsthand account of the Royal Navy's desperate and heroic struggle for dominance of the seas. Commissioned by the Admiralty, Kipling chronicles the perilous operations of British destroyers, submarines, and mine-sweepers, painting vivid portraits of the officers and ordinary men who faced death daily beneath storm-lashed waves and beneath the constant threat of enemy torpedoes and mines. Written with the same muscular prose and sharp eye for human detail that defined Kipling's celebrated fiction, Sea Warfare stands as both a work of urgent wartime reportage and a lasting tribute to naval courage. Kipling argues, with unflinching clarity, that the war at sea — unglamorous, invisible, and relentless — was as decisive as any trench campaign on the Western Front. For readers of military history and admirers of Kipling's literary legacy alike, this rare volume raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of civilisation's survival rested on the shoulders of men the world would never see?