The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945 by N A M Rodger #joyce Part protector

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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945 by N A M Rodger #joyce Part protectorThe final instalment of N. A. M. Rodger's definitive, authoritative trilogy on Britain's naval history. 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 nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book,