Gunboat

by Perrett, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9780785816041
• ISBN10: 0785816046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Book Sales

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
Little Ships, Big War
Gunboat Operations During the Crimean War, 1854--5	17	(16)
Chinese Poison
The Second Opium War, 1856--60	33	(17)
The Demise of Jolly Roger
The Suppression of Piracy in the East Indies and the South China Sea, 1855--69	50	(13)
Gunfire on the Mississippi
Federal and Confederate Gunboats in Action, 1862--3	63	(21)
The World's Policemen
Gunboats and the Pax Britannica, 1865--90	84	(16)
Death on the Nile
Egypt, 1882 and the Gordon Relief Expedition, 1884--5	100	(17)
Revenge at Omdurman
The Second Sudan War, 1896--8	117	(11)
Spicer-Simson Pulls It Off
German East Africa, 1914--16	128	(15)
General Townshend Holds a Regatta
The Mesopotamian Campaign, 1914--17	143	(14)
Bolos, Emperors and Warlords
Gunboat Operations Between the World Wars, 1918--39	157	(19)
Inshore Squadron
The Mediterranean, 1940--4	176	(24)
Imperial Echo
The Detention and Escape of HMS Amethyst, 1949	200	(15)
Epilogue: Return to Brown Water
Riverine Operations in Vietnam	215	(2)
Bibliography	217	(1)
Index	218