Jack Tar Av Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era.

An epic page-turner filled with tales of courage, desperation, endurance and intrigue, brought to life by eyewitness accounts and expert research.

* A gripping account of the most action-packed years of British naval history

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