Buy this book on-line SMITH**, PETER C: : Sailors in the Dock: NAVAL COURT MARTIAL DOWN THE CENTURIESUK.STROUD,GLOS.THE HISTORY PRESS,2011. ISBN 9780752465623.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome illustrated dw/dj,with brown and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Closed tear,approx 1" deep to centre of front top edge of dw/dj and a tiny,tiny snick in almost similar spot to top, rear edge of dw/dj too.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped and rubbed with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,generally clean - grease(?) thumb marks to vertical edge of front board,but publisher's original,sharp-cornered,plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,dark blue+white striped headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,10-271pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 comprising 1,17 and 8 chapters respectively, 8pp of a mixture of 16th-20th Century b/w reproduction illustrations+b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp160/1,an appendix,a bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table and Pts separator pages.
Covering the period from Sir Francis Drake to the aftermath of the Second World War,this is the first book to be written on the subject of naval courts martial in over 100 years.During this period,thanks to naval power,Great Britain rose from an obscure island to a worldwide empire.The men that controlled those fleets wielded enormous power and influence and produced victory after victory,but they were individuals of as diverse a collection of colourful characters that could be created.
Often more at war with each other than the enemy,not everything went to plan.The results were sometimes fatal,sometimes tragic,quite often unintentionally hilarious,but the subsequent trials and their outcomes,from mutiny to dereliction of duty to plain stupidity,often had far reaching effects on the British social fabric and have become woven into the legal system of the land.
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