The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. It is also our
greatest graveyard. Resting in its depths lay the lost ships of war
spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless,
others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are
the battles they fought, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland,
Pearl Harbor, and Midway. This book is a dramatic global tour of
the vast underwater museum of lost warships. It is also an account
of how underwater exploration has discovered them, resolving
mysteries, adding to our understanding of the past, and providing
intimate details of the life of war at sea. Arranged
chronologically, the book begins with ancient times and the
warships and battles of the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and
Romans, the Chinese, and progresses through three thousand years to
the lost ships of the Cold War. In bringing this violent past to
life, James Delgado's approach is informed by scholarship, but it
is not academic. Through his insights as an explorer,
archaeologist, and story teller, Delgado provides a unique and
idiosyncratic history of naval warfare, the evolution of its
strategy and technology, and it critical impact on the past. From
fallen triremes and galleons to dreadnoughts, aircraft carriers,
and nuclear submarines, this book vividly brings naval warfare to
life.
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