Hello all,
I would HIGHLY recommend that you buy ALL volumes of:
Conway's History of the Ship series
This series discusses both fighting, sailing and transporting ships and their respective historical eras. It is not extensive but provides recent scholarship (2000 A.D.) about each era from Ancient to Medieval to Renaissance to Iron Clad, etc.
Each volume is excellent.
Some are out of print, others are not..............Desire is a strong drive.
hellas1
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