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January 01, 1903 in The United Kingdom

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August 14, 1976

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Oliver Martin Wilson Warner (1903 - 14 August 1976) was a well-known British naval historian and writer.

Warner was born in 1903 and 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 wored 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 Comm...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 26 ratings · 7 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Nelson's Battles 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Captain Cook and the South Pacific (A Horizon Caravel Book) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Portrait of Lord Nelson 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Great Sea Battles 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nelson and the Age of Fighting Sail 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	With Wolfe To Quebec: The Path To Glory 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Trafalgar 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Nelson 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Uppark and Its People 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Returns of the Railroad Corporations in Massachusetts, 1862: Together with Abstracts of the Same (1863) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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