An important signpost towards future research, his [Sutcliffe's] study deserves to find a wide readership.
WAR IN HISTORY BOOK REVIEWS
[S]crupulously detailed throughout; one cannot imagine another scholar ever needing to revisit this question of how transport ships were hired in this period, for example. This will be a useful reference for much future scholarship on the British ... Read moreside of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
An important study.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Contains much which would be of interest to the general reader as well as the dedicated naval and maritime historian.
MARINER'S MIRROR
Resplendent in detail, this work provides a seemingly definitive statement on the Transport Board's troop movement and support activity during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Robert Sutcliffe's book will appeal to naval and maritime historians interested in this period, but also those focused on the logistics behind seaborne military expeditions, and anyone exploring the organization and growth of British government bureaucracy during this era.
NORTHERN MARINER/LE MARIN DU NORD
With thirty charts and tables, three appendices (the British empire's shipping, ships built in England, and Britain's military forces serving at home and overseas), full footnotes, and bibliography, this book will long serve as a work of reference. Sutcliffe and Boydell Press are to be congratulated on a significant contribution to our knowledge of the military history of the British state.
Roger Morriss
Journal of British Studies
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