Chatham (Tracy, Gardiner, Lyon, and Morriss) Another in this well-illustrated series on the Royal Navy that uses a number of chronological and thematic essays to deal with (in this case) the wars for American Independence. The book is divided into four sections; the first years (1775-77), the Americas and West Indies to 1783, Europe to 1783, and the East Indies to 1783. This structure results in the campaigns in America filling less than half of the book, an accurate reflection of the Royal Navy's view. There are excellent essays on such matters as which ships were best suited for colonial warfare, the French, Spanish and Dutch navies, the advantages of copper sheathing and the cruises of Suffren. At times the various actions were confusing without diagrams, and the strategic situation could have benefited from maps, but these are small criticisms of an excellent book. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars 1652-1674 All The King's Armies 1642-1651 The Oxford History of The British Empire Vol 1 Fleet Battle and Blockade Frontiersmen: Warfare in Africa since 1950 Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700 Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914 Borodino Navies and the American Revolution Lords of the Horizons Eagles over the Alps Feeding Mars The Wars of Louis XIV Back to Perfidious Albion #99 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com