Battleships winter uses evidence from Roman life

uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil’s own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct his life

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess – and a paradoxically macabre paean to life’s richness

Refined over forty years and championed by scientists across the globe

unlike the smaller calibre ‘transferable’ mountings mostly bolted to the deck

and it has not been forgotten

Battleships winter uses evidence from Roman lifeBattleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed in the last 500 years. Beginning with King Henry VIII's flagship, Henry Grace Dieu, this book covers all the main periods of battleship development, including the great sailing ships, such as Sovereign of the Seas, SantissimaTrinidad, and Victory. The advent of steam driven warships provides the core of the book, beginning with the introduction of Gloire in 1859, and continuing through