The Price of Victory
The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's great trilogy on Britain's naval history.
At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book, the culmination of one of the most admired British historical works in recent decades.
The Price of Victory is based on a lifetime's learning and refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses. Naval specialists will find much that is new and will be invigorated by the originality of Rodger's judgements; but everyone who is interested in one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding.
The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's great trilogy on Britain's naval history.
At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book, the culmination of one of the most admired British historical works in recent decades.
The Price of Victory is based on a lifetime's learning and refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses. Naval specialists will find much that is new and will be invigorated by the originality of Rodger's judgements; but everyone who is interested in one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding.
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The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's great trilogy on Britain's naval history.
At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book, the culmination of one of the most admired British historical works in recent decades.
The Price of Victory is based on a lifetime's learning and refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses. Naval specialists will find much that is new and will be invigorated by the originality of Rodger's judgements; but everyone who is interested in one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding.
