Oliver Warner

Oliver Warner (* 1903; † 14. August 1976 i​n Haslemere) w​ar ein britischer Marinehistoriker u​nd Schriftsteller.

Leben und Wirken

Warner studierte a​n der Universität Cambridge, arbeitete a​ls Journalist u​nd war a​b 1926 Lektor a​m Verlag Chatto a​nd Windus. Nach d​em Krieg w​ar er stellvertretender Leiter d​er Veröffentlichungen d​es British Council. 1963 g​ing er i​n den Ruhestand u​nd widmete s​ich ganz d​er Schriftstellerei.

Er veröffentlichte mehrere Werke über Marinegeschichte, u​nter anderem über Horatio Nelson u​nd seine Seeschlachten, s​owie unter anderem über Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Admiral Collingwood, James Wolfe, Frederick Marryat u​nd George Monck.

Schriften
  • Captains and Kings: a group of miniatures, London: Allen and Unwin 1947 (Zeitschriftenartikel)
  • Uncle Lawrence, New York: Random House 1939
  • Hero of the restoration; a life of General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, London 1936
  • Portrait of Lord Nelson, Chatto and Windus 1958
  • Nelson´s Battles, Macmillan 1965
  • Trafalgar, London: Batsford 1959
  • Nelson and the age of fighting sail, American Heritage Pub. 1963 (Vorwort Chester W. Nimitz)
  • Fighting sail : three hundred years of warfare at sea (Vorwort Earl Mountbatten), London: Cassell 1979
  • The Glorious First of June, Macmillan 1961 (über die Seeschlacht am 13. Prairial)
  • Captain Cook and the South Pacific, American Heritage Publ. 1963
  • Herausgeber Great Sea Battles, Macmillan 1963
    • Deutsche Übersetzung: Große Seeschlachten, G. Stalling 1963
  • Great Seamen, London: Bell 1961
  • Great Battle Fleets, London, Hamlyn 1973
  • Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1967
  • British Navy: a concise history, Thames and Hudson 1975
  • Victory: The Life of Lord Nelson, Boston, Little, Brown 1958
  • The sea and the sword; the Baltic, 1630-1945; New York: Morrow 1965
  • Introduction to British Marine Painting, London 1948
  • John Gay, Longmans, Green 1964
  • William Wilberforce and his times, New York, Arco 1962
  • Joseph Conrad, Longmans, Green 1951
  • The Life and Letters of Vice-Admiral Collingwood, Oxford UP 1968
  • Admiral of the fleet: Cunningham of Hyndhope; the battle for the Mediterranean; a memoir, Ohio University Press
  • Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet: a memoir, London, Murray 1967
  • Admiral of the Fleet: the life of Sir Charles Lambe, London: Sidgwick and Jackson 1969
  • Frank Woolley, London, Phoenix House 1953
  • Battle of the Nile, Macmillan 1960
  • Emma Hamilton and Sir William, Chatto and Windus 1960
  • With Wolfe to Quebec: the path to glory, Toronto, Collins 1972
  • Captain Marryat. A rediscovery, London: Constable 1953
  • Command at sea : great fighting admirals from Hawke to Nimitz, Cassell 1976
  • Chatto & Windus; a brief account of the firm’s origin, history and development, Chatto and Windus 1973

Literatur
  • Nachruf, The Times, 18. August 1976
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