Author : N. A. M. Rodger
Publisher : Allan Lane
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Command of the Ocean by : N. A. M. Rodger
Download or read book The Command of the Ocean written by N. A. M. Rodger and published by Allan Lane. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in half a dozen languages over nearly a decade, and synthesising a vast quantity of secondary material, it describes not just battles and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men (and sometimes women) were fed, and above all how it was financed and directed. It was during the century and a half covered by this book that the successful organising of these last three victualling, money and management took the Navy to the heart of the British state. It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated and mutually dependent Britain and the Navy then became.