"This is a very dense and detailed account...In conclusion, this is certainly a volume that should be placed on the shelves of the staff colleges."

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The Naval Review

Historians will be thankful to Corbett for illuminating an overlooked aspect of the past...

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Australian Naval Institute

"This is a book founded on wide research and packed with information..."

South West Soundings, South West Maritime History Society

A original, meticulous, detailed, documented, and fascinating historical study, "A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War: An Atlantic-Wide Conflict over Independence and Empire" is informatively enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of a section of b/w plates, thirty-eight pages of Notes, and a four page Index. A work of throughly impressive scholarship that is thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, and also available in a digital book format, "A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War: An Atlantic-Wide Conflict" is highly recommended as a core addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library American Revolutionary History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

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Midwest Book Review

This is a careful and scholarly book which plays down the epic moments like the bombardment of Gibraltar and the duel between the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard. In their place we have not only an account of all the main naval actions, including the combats on the lakes and rivers, but also of the organisation, supply and manning of the various navies on both sides.

If you are familiar only with the land war then read this as a corrective.

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