Constitution vs Guerriere: Frigates during the War of 1812

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR MARK LARDAS holds a degree In Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but spent his earllj career at the johnson Space Center doing Space Shuttle structural analljsis, and space navigation. An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeler, Mark Lardas is currentllj working in League Citlj, Texas. He has written extensivellj about modeling as well as naval, maritime, and militarlj historlj.

GIUSEPPE RAVA was born in Faenza in 1963, and took an interest in all things militarlj from an earllj age. Entirellj self-taught, Giuseppe has established himself as a leading militarlj historlj artist, and is inspired blj the works of the great

CONSTITUTION GUERRIERE Frigates during the War of 1812

militarlj artists, such as Detaille, Meissonier, Roehling, Ladlj Butler, Ottenfeld and Angus McBride. He lives and works in Itallj.

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