Empire of the Deep
The Rise and Fall of the British Navy
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Word Count
173,000 words, Guess
Page Count
692 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28031645M
- ISBN-139780297864080
- ISBN-100297864084
- OCLC Control Number832602630
Classifications
- LCCDA70 .W55 2013
Description
Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Few other nations have fallen so deeply in love with a branch of the armed forces as the British did with its Navy. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing inevitable about this rise to maritime domination, nor was it ever an easy path.
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- Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy
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