Buy this book on-line OLLARD, RICHARD: : MAN OF WAR: Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration NavyLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1969. ISBN 0340107020.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
VG+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but neat,ink,
ARMED FORCES library stamp to title-page:
'COMMAND REFERENCE LIBRARY, EDUCATION
CENTRE, HMS TERROR,SINGAPORE' with similar stamp to foot of last page of index,at the rear.Assumed further ex-library indications,in a horizontal,adhesive residue strip below half-title page's half-title - no label present,with library numerals partly crossed through to top of same page,and partial ink,printed library notation to top edges - no other ex-library indications present in either the book or the text.The dw/dj is protected by a slightly oversized,amateurishly made, polythene cover,the inner flaps of which, were at one time, sellotaped to the front+ rear endpapers,leaving a residual indication of same.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally,sporadically foxed/ spotted,fore-edge brighter and cleaner but also minimally foxed/spotted; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - a carefully read copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain pale green cloth boards with bright,crisp non-oxidised,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and blue,map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,14-240pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w plates/
illus/maps etc.,3 b/w plans,a b/w map in text,notes,appendices(2),genealogical table,ships index,general index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,and contents
+illus lists/tables.
Few biographies have caught more of the spirit and colour of the age of Charles II
than this life of Sir Robert Holmes.
Adventurous,energetic,extravagant,combative and unscrupulous,he first attracted the attention of Prince Rupert as a young cavalry officer in the Civil War.As a Royalist exile,he accompanied the Prince first into the French service and then,in one of the strangest and most romantic episodes in naval history,on a cruise that carried the Royalist colours,no longer flying in England,to Portugal,the Mediterranean,West Africa and the West Indies.
After Charles II's Restoration,Holmes twice commanded naval expeditions to the Gambia and the Gold Coast where his bold and thrusting policy was,in the opinion of many,the main cause of the Second Dutch War.In the fierce and furious actions that followed,Holmes won a high reputation for courage and skill,destroying,in perhaps the most successful single feat of arms of the century,a great part of the Dutch merchant marine at a cost of hardly a dozen casualties.
This was the period that saw the founding of a modern,professional,whole-time Navy.
Pepys,the greatest naval administrator in our history,was the architect of a service
that for three hundred years has been the
symbol of English power and the support of English policy.For thirty years Pepys and Holmes intrigued,manoeuvered,and quarrelled over naval matters,ending with a respect, perhaps even a kindness,for each other.
But conflict,whether with the enemy or with brother officers,was the keynote of Holmes's long and fascinating career.To follow it is to see the Navy of the Restoration from an unusual angle and to feel the inexhaustible vitality and gusto of the age.
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