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Andre Deutsch London 1st edition 1966. Hard cover dust wrapper 515pp b&w plates. A bit of wear on price clipped dw, some foxing on dw and pages, corners bumped else very good. . 1797 was a year of crisis for Britain and Europe and at the height of the troubles, Britain's fleet - her sheild against invasion - was rendered impotent by mutiny. In a spontaneous uprising against apalling conditions of service, brutal discipline and tyrannical officers, over 50000 men in 113 ships refused to obey orders and expelled their officers. The mutinies at Spithead and the Nore were the longest and among the best organised in naval history.