The Four Days' Battle of 1666

Frank Fox's The Four Days' Battle of 1666. The definitive story of the greatest battle in the age of sail. Hard-cover; 400 pages; 50 illustrations including maps and fleet movements.In June of 1666, a large English fleet engaged the Dutch across the North Sea in a colossal battle that involved 200 ships and lasted 4 days. The battle was of such overwhelming complexity that for centuries it defied description. Frank Fox's superbly researched book is now recognized as the definitive account. It provides the first clear description of the opposing forces, fills many holes in the narrative and answers most of the questions raised by historians... A thoroughly engrossing story and one worthy of the greatest battle of the sail.