Angus Konstam: Gunboats of World War I [2015] paperback SGRAP Until she is contacted out

Until she is contacted out of the blue by someone who says he must get information to her

Providing a unique glimpse into the experiences of regular British and French infantry during the French and Indian War

'these letters thus far have remained unsent

Myth has also invaded the political realm

She is now as much at home in ancient Egypt as she is in the Alaskan wilderness' Publishers Weekly

Angus Konstam: Gunboats of World War I [2015] paperback SGRAP Until she is contacted outNaval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far from the naval epicentre of the war than were ever killed at Jutland. Gunboat engagements during this war were bloody and hard fought, if small in scale. Austrian gunboats on the Danube fired the first shots of the war, whilst German, British and Belgian