Best Selling Books by Antony Preston

Describes the functions, history and conditions aboard Naval destroyers used in World War I and World War II.

Antony Preston provides a history of steel navy mistakes, beginning in the 1860s when steam propulsion, turret mechanisms and armoured hulls were all in their infancy, and ships of questionable seaworthiness such as the USS Monitor were built and sank.

Published in its original form 35 years ago, ''Send a Gunboat'' remains the standard reference on the remarkable story of the Victorian Royal Navy''s fleet of small warships, which enforced the Pax Britannica around the world for half a century.