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Oliver Warner


Born
in The United Kingdom
January 01, 1903

Died
August 14, 1976

Genre
History, Biography


Oliver Martin Wilson Warner was a well-known British naval historian and writer.

Warner was educated at Denstone College and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1926 he succeeded Frank Swinnerton as staff reader at the publishing house of Chatto and Windus. In addition to his work as staff reader he also worked on the company's advertising material. As a young man he made contributions to magazines such as The Spectator and Time and Tide, some of which were later reproduced in his 1947 book Captains and Kings. In 1939 he published an account of his visit to an "unworldly" relative in Canada, entitled Uncle Lawrence. During the Second World War he joined the Admiralty secretariat, initially serving in the Commission and Warrant (C.W.) branch[citatio ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 392 ratings · 49 reviews · 81 distinct works • Similar authors
Captain Cook
4.05 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions
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A Portrait of Lord Nelson
3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1958 — 17 editions
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Nelson's Battles
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1965 — 24 editions
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Nelson and the Age of Fight...
3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions
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Trafalgar
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions
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Great sea battles
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — 17 editions
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The Battle of the Nile
4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1960 — 3 editions
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Command at sea: Great fight...
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions
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With Wolfe to Quebec: The p...
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions
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William Wilberforce
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions
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