The Rise And Fall Of British Naval Mastery
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The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery
Author | : Paul Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141983837 |
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Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Author | : Paul M. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105039772087 |
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The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Author | : Paul M. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0844814652 |
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Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Author | : Paul M. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : LCCN:81019347 |
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Engineers of Victory
Author | : Paul Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846147289 |
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From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. In January 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt and the Combined Chiefs of Staff met in Casablanca to review the western Allies' war aims and strategy. They realised that to attain their ultimate aim of 'unconditional surrender' they would have to achieve some formidable objectives - win control of the Atlantic sea-lanes and command of the air over the whole of West-Central Europe, work out how to land on an enemy-held shore so that Continental Europe could be retaken, how to blunt the Nazi blitzkrieg that a successful invasion would undoubtedly provoke, and finally how to 'hop' across the islands of the Pacific to assault the Japanese mainland. Eighteen months later on, as Paul Kennedy writes, 'these operational aims were either accomplished or close to being so.' The history of the Second World War is often told as a grand narrative. The focus of this book, by contrast, is on the problem-solvers - Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker 'the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang'; Captain 'Johnny' Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a 'creeping barrage'. The result is a fresh perspective on the greatest, conflict in human history. Paul Kennedy is one of the world's best-selling and most influential historians. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which has been translated into over twenty languages, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, The Parliament of Man and the now classic Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery.
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Author | : Paul M. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002886946 |
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare
Author | : George Kassimeris,John D. Buckley |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 075467410X |
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This research collection provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare. It offers a refreshing analysis of key issues in modern warfare, not only in terms of the conduct of war and the wider complexities and ramifications of modern conflict, but also concepts of war, the crucial shifts in the structure of warfare, and the morality and legality of the use of force in a post-9/11 age.
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Author | : Lawrence James |
Publsiher | : London : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Commonwealth countries |
ISBN | : 0349106673 |
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