Tony and Brian, thanks for your notes.
First, my Admiralty book, The Great Ship Ashore, should not be too expensive. The current dire situation with publishing anything but airport blockbusters means that relatively short-run books, especially with a fairly limited market, get no promotion from retailers and are soon remaindered and then pulped. The concept of "limited edition" subscription takes us back to the earlier form of publishing in Johnson's and Scott's day, and circumvents this problem. I am finalising now the costing of the book but it should be around £25.00 in hardback, limited to 2000 copies.
Secondly, the Thomas Cochrane I have written about for MM is Captain Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th earl of Dundonald, not his younger and lesser cousin Captain Thomas John Cochrane. The article is a detailed analysis of Cochrane's stirring defence of Trinity castle at Rosas in 1808, the model for Hornblower's fictional activities and something too of Jack Aubrey, but first recorded in fiction by Frederick Marryat, Cochrane's ADC at Rosas, in Frank Mildmay.
My monograph The Royal Navy in the Bay of Roses 1808-1809 (a survey of RN actions in the area sans the Cochrane action) was published in English and Catalan in the commemorative volume El Setge de Rosas 1808: tres visions de Guerra del Frances three weeks ago. It is one of four papers, all translated into Catalan from English, French or Castellano; the other English-original paper deals with Cochrane at Rosas, written by my Oxford colleague Robin Pedler (a shorter paper than my own for MM and from a different perspective). Captain Michael Cochrane RN - who also lives in Oxford - was a guest at the conference.
I am not sure quite how to obtain copies of this multi-lingual edition outside Spain - the Catalan-only edition is now on general sale in Catalonia - but I will find out; I know there were quite a lot of copies printed.
Best
Justin
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