From Sail to Steam (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Recollections of Naval Life

By Alfred Thayer Mahan

The life of Admiral Mahan spanned the age of sail; the Civil War, the War in the Pacific, and the Spanish-American War; the rise of steam power, and the international political dramas that would explode into the First World War. He tells his story in this 1907 memoir.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411442108

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) won immediate recognition, especially in Europe, and with its successor, The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century.