The Royal Navy and the Peruvian-Chilean War 1879-1881

From the front inside fly leaf: This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but crucial role - the Peruvian-Chilean war of 1879 to 1881. At the time the power of the British Empire was at its height, thanks to the reach of the Royal Navy, and naval officers  often found themselves far from home and in positions of power way beyond their rank.....

Rudolf de Lisle was one of these officers and fortunately he had the skills to record the background to the war, the dramatic action and it's aftermath, all in his own words and superb watercolours. Together these make a unique record of this firecely contested and costly war, played out in the Pacific ocean off the coast of South America