Empire of the Deep
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy
Publisher: WandN; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: Jul 25, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780297864080
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.
Notes: Source title: Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy