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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
N.A.M. Rodger
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paperback. Describes 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. This work describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men were fed, and how it was financed and directed. Num Pages: 1008 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 684.
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. It describes not just battles, voyages 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 organizing of these last three - victualling, money and ... Read more
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. It describes not just battles, voyages 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 organizing of these last three - victualling, money and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
976
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141026909
SKU
9780141026909
Shipping Time
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99-1
About N.A.M. Rodger
N.A.M. Rodger is Professor of Naval History at Exeter University and Anderson Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum. He is the author of The Wooden World and The Admiralty as well as the highly acclaimed first volume of his naval history of Britain, The Safeguard of the Sea (available in Penguin).
Reviews for The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
I have never reviewed a book that has given me more pleasure … a masterpiece
Kevin Myers
Mail on Sunday
A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of ... Read more
Kevin Myers
Mail on Sunday
A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of ... Read more