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The price of victory : a naval history of Britain, 1815-1945 /

At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea power was at its apogee. But by 1840, as one contemporary commentator put it, 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 ninet...

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Main Author:	Rodger, N. A. M., 1949- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025].
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Royal Navy > History. Great Britain > History, Naval > 19th century. Great Britain > History, Naval > 20th century.

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