N A M Rodger

The Command of the Ocean

A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 976
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780141026909
• ISBN-10: 0141026901
• Artikelnr.: 20899637

Autorenporträt

N. A. M. Rodger is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and former Professor of Naval History at the University of Exeter. He has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History, the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, the British Academy Book prize, the Hattendorf Prize, and the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum.

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