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Oxford, UK: Kensal Press, 1991. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 420 pages including maps, plus black-and-white illustrations; just a hint of shelf wear, otherwise almost as new, very clean and unmarked; DJ in new mylar protector. PLEASE NOTE: that the "Stock Image" provided by next to my listing is NOT my copy as mine does not have an ugly bar code price sticker. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++.
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- Title No Peace without Spain
- Author Hugill, J. A. C
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 435
- Publisher Kensal Press, Oxford
- Date 1991
- ISBN 9780946041589
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No Peace Without Spain
by Hugill, J. A. C.
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No Peace without Spain
by Hugill, J. A. C
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No Peace Without Spainby Hugill, J. A. C. first edition No indication of a second printing. Hard cover. Kensal Press, Oxford (1991) New in new dust jacket. new and unmarked but tiny (less than 2 millimetre) nick at to right corner of dj 420 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. 8 portraits including that of Sir Cloudesley Shovell The admiral died in 1707 off the Scillies. According to the accounts, a "common seaman" told the admiral the admiral was wrong about the ship's longitude and that ship was in danger of shipwreck. He was hanged for his impertinence and shortly thereafter the ship went aground: the admiral drowned. It was just a few years after that when Voltaire declare it was dangerous to be right when "those in power" were wrong but that he, Voltaire, would defend to the death the right to state what is right. Easy statement to make, but whose death was it?
Juist for the record, it happened to me on HMS Bulwark in the fities. The captain threatened… Read More
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