The Sword & the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford

The Year of Thermopylae, ISBN 1-2 (1-2), Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited.Another edition: ISBN 0-2 (0-2), Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated Thermopylae: The Battle for the West, ISBN 1-6 (1-6), Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated.Ulisse ritrovato: un'avventura intorno alla Sicilia, an Italian edition of the above.Reisen mit Odysseus, a German edition of the above.Southward the Caravels: The Story of Henry the Navigator, Hutchinson, 1961.He also served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first Lieutenant of a destroyer. The son of Jocelyn Ernle Sydney Patton Bradford and his wife, Ada Louise Dusgate, he was educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. Sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was a prolific author. Bradford lived in Kalkara, Malta for a number of years.

It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, Mischief, to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes. His book, The Journeying Moon describes some of these voyages. A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there.

Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922, Cole Green, Norfolk, England – ) was a noted 20th century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics.

The Sword & the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford