- Admirals, Biography, Naval History, Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Thousands of facts are presented in lists grouped under such headings as "What's in a Name," "America the Beautiful," "Crime and Punishment," "Arty Facts," "From Head to Toe," "The Sporting Life," and "Coming Attractions."
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Cool, spare, plot-driven and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Alexander Hough
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 271
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Morrow
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780297773085
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Historian, with non-fiction books of biographry, naval and motor racing history. Also wrote fiction as [Bruce Carter](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6601404A)
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