Oliver Warner

Oliver Warner (* 1903, † August 14 1976 in Haslemere ) was a British naval historian and writer.

Life and work

Warner studied at Cambridge University, worked as a journalist and was editor from 1926 to the publisher Chatto and Windus. After the war he was deputy head of the publications of the British Council. In 1963 he retired and devoted himself entirely to writing.

He published several works on naval history, among other things, Horatio Nelson and his sea battles, as well as, inter alia, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Admiral Collingwood, James Wolfe, Frederick Marryat and George Monck.

Writings

• Captains and Kings: a group of miniatures, London: Allen and Unwin, 1947 ( journal article )
• Uncle Lawrence, New York: Random House, 1939
• Hero of the restoration; a life of General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, London 1936
• Portrait of Lord Nelson, Chatto and Windus 1958
• Nelson's Battles, Macmillan 1965
• Trafalgar, London: Batsford 1959
• Nelson and the age of fighting sail, American Heritage Pub. 1963 ( Foreword by Chester W. Nimitz )
• The Glorious First of June, Macmillan, 1961 ( about the battle on 13 Glorious First )
• Captain Cook and the South Pacific, American Heritage Publ 1963
• Publisher Great Sea Battles, Macmillan 1963 German translation: Great Naval Battles, G. Stalling 1963