Oliver Warner

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Oliver Warner (* 1903 ; † August 14, 1976 in Haslemere ) was a British naval historian and writer.

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Warner studied at the University of Cambridge , worked as a journalist and was from 1926 editor at the Chatto and Windus publishing house. After the war he was Associate Director of Publications for the British Council . In 1963 he retired and devoted himself entirely to writing.

He published several works on naval history, including Horatio Nelson and his naval battles, as well as Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim , Admiral Collingwood , James Wolfe , Frederick Marryat and George Monck , among others .

Fonts

  • Captains and Kings: a group of miniatures , London: Allen and Unwin 1947 (magazine article)
  • Uncle Lawrence , New York: Random House 1939
  • Hero of the restoration; a life of General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle , London 1936
  • Portrait of Lord Nelson , Chatto and Windus 1958
  • Nelson´s Battles , Macmillan 1965
  • Trafalgar , London: Batsford 1959
  • Nelson and the age of fighting sail , American Heritage Pub. 1963 (preface by Chester W. Nimitz )
  • Fighting sail: three hundred years of warfare at sea (preface Earl Mountbatten ), London: Cassell 1979
  • The Glorious First of June , Macmillan 1961 (about the Battle of the 13th Prairial )
  • Captain Cook and the South Pacific , American Heritage Publ. 1963
  • Publisher Great Sea Battles , Macmillan 1963
    • German translation: Great sea battles , G. Stalling 1963
  • Great Seamen , London: Bell 1961
  • Great Battle Fleets , London, Hamlyn 1973
  • Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns , Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1967
  • British Navy: a concise history , Thames and Hudson 1975
  • Victory: The Life of Lord Nelson , Boston, Little, Brown 1958
  • The sea and the sword; the Baltic, 1630-1945 ; New York: Morrow 1965
  • Introduction to British Marine Painting , London 1948
  • John Gay , Longmans, Green 1964
  • William Wilberforce and his times , New York, Arco 1962
  • Joseph Conrad , Longmans, Green 1951
  • The Life and Letters of Vice-Admiral Collingwood , Oxford UP 1968
  • Admiral of the fleet: Cunningham of Hyndhope ; the battle for the Mediterranean; a memoir , Ohio University Press
  • Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet: a memoir , London, Murray 1967
  • Admiral of the Fleet: the life of Sir Charles Lambe , London: Sidgwick and Jackson 1969
  • Frank Woolley , London, Phoenix House 1953
  • Battle of the Nile , Macmillan 1960
  • Emma Hamilton and Sir William , Chatto and Windus 1960
  • With Wolfe to Quebec: the path to glory , Toronto, Collins 1972
  • Captain Marryat. A rediscovery , London: Constable 1953
  • Command at sea: great fighting admirals from Hawke to Nimitz , Cassell 1976
  • Chatto & Windus; a brief account of the firm's origin, history and development , Chatto and Windus 1973

literature

  • Obituary, The Times, Aug. 18, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Warner, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1976
Place of death Haslemere