Description
The thirteen remarkable episodes of gunboat action recalled here by Bryan Perrett echo the great days of imperial rule Gunboats saw service across the world, and the events described include conflicts in china, the Crimea, the Mississippi, the Persian Gulf, East Africa and more, stretching from 1824 to the dramatic escape of the Amethyst down the Yangtze in 1949.
The thirteen remarkable episodes of gunboat action recalled here by Bryan Perrett echo the great days of imperial rule Gunboats saw service across the world, and the events described include conflicts in china, the Crimea, the Mississippi, the Persian Gulf, East Africa and more, stretching from 1824 to the dramatic escape of the Amethyst down the Yangtze in 1949.