To Rule the Waves
Subtitle: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)
By: Arthur Herman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: October 25, 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780060534257
Subjects: Naval History (General); Great Britain - History; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; Military - Naval; History / Great Britain
First sentence: FOR THREE DAYS the ships had struggled to hold their own against the hurricane.
Description: "To rule the waves" tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history.