1917 The Life and Letters of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B.

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

This review copy has the slip loosely inserted stating that this copy was for the editor of Country Life Magazine. Below this is stamped the publication date of Nov 8 1917. to the title page there is a compliments stamp ' With the Publishers' Compliments'. Illustrated, with twenty-four plates. Collated, complete. This work is formed of Sir Charles Napier's letters in addition to a biography by H Noel Williams. To the verso of the illustration leaf there is a letter printed from Charles Beresford to Sir Charles Napier's granddaughter, Mrs Gooch stating 'No man has ever been treated worse by politicians than Admiral Sir Charles Napier. He was a splendid seaman, and affords one of the instances where the politicians are always doing their best to lose the Empire, and the Navy and Army save it at the critical moment.' Napier was in the Royal Navy for sixty years and he served in the War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars, Syrian War and the Crimean War. He was a strong advocate of reform in the Royal Navy and was a famed officer in the early Victorian Era. This work looks at the lengthy career of this great serviceman.