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Admirals

By Andrew D. Lambert

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2008
ISBN
057123156X, 9780571231560
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (2717256 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
512\0
Time added
2013-11-04 15:40:43

Description

From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how this country's maritime power helped Britain gain unparalleled dominance of the world's economy. Told through the lives of ten of our most remarkable admirals, Andrew Lambert's book spans Elizabethan times to the Second World War, culminating with the spirit which led Andrew Browne Cunningham famously to declare, when the army feared he would lose too many ships, 'it takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition'.

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