Author: Bryant, Arthur
Title: Samuel Pepys - The Saviour Of The Navy
Description: Collins, 1949, 2nd edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G+ x+452pp, b/w frontis, 5 b/w plates, index, a nice copy in a slighlty edge worn & spine darkened dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Volume 3 in Bryants biography of Peyps, which covers his years at the head of the Admiralty - when after seeing at first hand the state to which the navy had sunk, he set to making sure Britain ruled the waves.

Keywords: navy, pepys, history, biography