To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World

Arthur Herman

To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Country
Published
25 October 2005
Pages
688
ISBN
9780060534257

To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World

Arthur Herman

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To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy’s beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy – of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world.

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