The Oxford illustrated history of the Royal Navy
1995, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #418817
ISBN: 0192116754
Physical description; xiv, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-465) and index. Contents; The wall of England, to 1500 / Susan Rose -- From the king's ships to the Royal Navy 1500-1642 / David Loades -- A permanent national maritime fighting force, 1642-1689 / J.D. Davies -- The struggle with France, 1690-1815 / John B. Hattendorf -- The eighteenth-century navy as a national institution, 1690-1815 / Daniel A. Baugh -- The shield of empire, 1815-1895 / Andrew Lambert -- Wood, sail, and cannonballs to steel, steam, and shells, 1815-1895 / David K. Brown -- Endeavour, discovery, and idealism, 1760-1895 / Roger Morris -- Life and education in a technically evolving navy, 1815-1925 / John Winton -- The battleship fleet : the test of war, 1895-1919 / James Goldrick -- Retrenchment, rethinking, revival, 1919-1939 / Geoffrey Till -- A service vindicated, 1939-1946 / Eric J. Grove -- The realities of medium power, 1946 to the present / J.R. Hill -- The Royal Navy and the post-war naval revolution, 1946 to the present / Norman Friedman. Subjects; Great Britain. Royal Navy History. Navies Great Britain History. Great Britain History, Naval. Marine.
Price: €14.95