Twenty-five centuries of sea warfare / Jacques Mordal. Translated by Len Ortzen; with drawings and maps by Michel Fontaine.

"First published in France by Editions Robert Laffont under the title 25 Siec̀les de Guerre sur Mer"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Naval battles of antiquity -- Coming of the Normans -- Battle of South Foreland -- Battle of Sluys -- Battle of Lepanto -- Invincible Armada limps home in despair -- De Ruyter, the man worth an army -- From Beachy Head to Barfleur Point -- Britain's command of the seas -- Battle of Chesapeake Bay -- First actions of the Russian Navy -- Great naval battles of the Napoleonic wars -- Copenhagen, the battle where disobedience paid -- Campaign of Trafalgar -- Navarino -- Massacre at Sinope -- Privateers and ironclads in the American Civil War -- Lissa, where ramming or morale won the day -- First torpedo attacks -- American victories at Manila and Santiago -- Russians' long haul to Tsou-shima and disaster -- From Coronel to Jutland -- Cruise of the Emden -- Battle of the River Plate -- Matapan and Alexandria : British victory and Italian revenge -- German submarines and the battle of the Atlantic -- Massacre of Convoy PQ. 17 -- Battle of Midway