How Long to Read Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815

How Long Does it Take to Read Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815 by Daniel S. MacCannell

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Description

Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775-1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defense infrastructure of the Napoleonic War. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned color photographs, it includes not only these structures' forerunners, and plans that were never executed, but also the grand strategy that informed them. At its best, this saw Britain's position as a vast land battle, with the deadly threat of the French-held Antwerp navy yards on its own 'left wing', and Lisbon as the enemy's 'weak left' to be 'turned'. The book also takes in the astonishingly inventive, bold and bloody small-boat wars that raged from the Baltic and Channel coast to Chesapeake Bay and Lake Ontario, and provides vivid pen-sketches of the now-obscure and sometimes deeply flawed strategic visionaries, engineers, inventors, and fighting men who held the line as - even after Trafalgar - the forces of an ever more powerful French empire circled like sharks. Along the way, it traces a fundamental change in the nature of war and society: from a ponderous game of fortresses and colonies played by rulers, to murderous 'foot by foot' defense of the whole territory of the nation by 'both sexes and every social type'.

How long is Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815?

Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815 by Daniel S. MacCannell is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815 aloud.

What Reading Level is Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815?

Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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