No Peace without Spain

by 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 to destroy my career, not hang me, if I persisted in telling he could not conduct the operation had had planned. He was wrong and the Admiralty made the cover-up one would expect of such a fine institution.

Book also includes 2o battle plans. And so Gibraltar became British. A massive piece of research and gives a terrific insight to War of Spanish Succession. And if you can't remember what war was about, look at the family tree on page vi. A VALUABLE AND TREASURED GIFT TO SOMEBODY YOU RESPECT? Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-400) and index. See on scan book is bright and clean although at top right corner of dust jacket you should see a nick less than 2 millimeters long. I offer as first printing of first edition