The Price of Victory

A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945

N A M Rodger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

976 Seiten

2026
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-028897-1 (ISBN)

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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 book 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 the one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding.

N. A. M. Rodger is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and former Professor of Naval History at the University of Exeter. He has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History, the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, the British Academy Book prize, the Hattendorf Prize, and the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.5.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-14-028897-X / 014028897X
ISBN-13	978-0-14-028897-1 / 9780140288971
Zustand	Neuware