CONTENTS:

1. FREEDOM’S OWN ISLAND
2. THE GATES OF BRASS, 1789
3. THE FAILURE OF APPEASEMENT, 1790-93
4. THE WAR OF INACTION, 1793
5. THE ENEMY STRIKES, 1794-95
6. THE HOME FRONT, 1794-95
7. BEFORE THE STORM, 1795-96
8. HER DARKEST HOUR, 1797
9. THE FLEET IN MUTINY, 1797
10. THE FIRMNESS OF ANCIENT ROME, 1797-98
11. BRITAIN STRIKES BACK, 1798
12. THE LOST CHANCE, 1798-1800
13. OF NELSON AND THE NORTH, 1800-01
14. A TRUCE OF EXHAUSTION, 1801-02

          "This book is inspired and guided by the historian’s love for his country and his pride in its achievements. It is written with sustained vivacity, often with eloquence; it abounds in entertaining detail culled from wide reading; significant detail unused by others hitherto."          Sunday Times

          "Sir Arthur Bryant writes history as it should be written, with tact and imagination, above all with enthusiasm, expressed in a language as witty as it is graphic."       Listener

          "A narrative to stir the hearts of the English with prode of ancestry."       The Times Literary Supplement