Bücher von C. Northcote Parkinson

This book recounts the earliest adventures of Parkinson's hero, Richard Delancey. Ranked as a midshipman, when the events of the American Revolution and the ongoing hostilities between France and England send him across the sea, Delancey finds himself instrumental in defending the Isle of Jersey, and later, the Rock of Gibraltar.

Anthology of stories from the British navy during the Napoleonic wars. Chronicles the daily life of a man in the navy during this time, shows the brutal realities of the job, depicts the warfare.

The author reviews history from Sumerian days to the present time to show that throughout its course, East and West have alternately been dominant, the periodic decline of one civilization creating a cultural vacuum that was filled by the adjacent rising culture.