Table of Contents

LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; NOTE TO THE READER; INTRODUCTION; A-Z ENTRIES; CHRONOLOGY; PLACE-NAME CHANGES

About the Author

I. C. B. Dear has written several books on maritime and military subjects. He is the compiler of Oxford English: A Guide to the Language (1986) and co-editor of the second edition of The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2005). M. R. D. Foot, CBE, is an author and historian. He was formerly a wartime intelligence officer and a Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester.