John D. Grainger is the author of numerous books for a variety of publishers, including nine for Boydell and Brewer, including The British Navy in the Baltic, Dictionary of British Naval Battles, The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-56 and The British Navy in the Caribbean.
Not only reviews the campaign as a whole but brings to the
reassessment of events a probing judiciousness which commands
respect. [...] Although this reassessment plays down Yorktown's
role as a decisive battle, it provides an excellent rationale for
studying the campaign as a test case in military deception,
inter-service working, strategic opportunism, and the organization
of swift movements of forces to a culminating engagement.
*WAR IN HISTORY*
A welcome addition to the literature. An effective, well-written
and clear study.
*HISTORY*
Makes a solid contribution to our understanding of the Chesapeake
encirclement.... [The author's] often controversial conclusions
make this book worth studying.
*JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY*
Provide[s] a useful corrective to star-spangled American
renderings.
*MILITARY HISTORY (US)*
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