John O. (buzzby) - , reviewed The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo on + 6062 more book reviews
Written differently than most history books. It's heavy on the first person account of seamen, so it gives a good picture of what the fighting and dangers really were. It was kind of hard to tell who (British? French? Danish?) was doing what to who sometimes, well, a lot of the time.