The Command of the Ocean : A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 (v. 2)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books Ltd., 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Berkshire Rare Books, Maidenhead, United KingdomBerkshire Rare Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Very good condition. Spine, binding and covers all fine; robust blue boards with nice gilt title on spine. Contents very clean, with no inscription and no tanning, and a gift label on the inside cover. Dustcover very good with barely any sign of wear. 907 pages.
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- Title
- The Command of the Ocean : A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 (v. 2)
- Author
- Rodger, N.A.M.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd.
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713994118
- ISBN 13
- 9780713994117
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: Naval History of the Sea V. 1, 660-1
- Seller catalogs
- Military, Naval
The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in half a dozen languages over nearly a decade, and synthesising a vast quantity of secondary material, it describes not just battles and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men (and sometimes women) were fed, and above all how it was financed and directed. It was during the century and a half covered by this book that the successful organising of these last three - victualling, money and management - took the Navy to the heart of the British state. . It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated and mutually dependent Britain and the Navy then became.
The Command of the Ocean is a landmark in naval and military history; but it also allows us to see the history of Britain as a whole in a new perspective. Anyone interested in British history at this crucial stage in its development will find it both engrossing and enlightening.
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