The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan

The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan

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A study of warfare at sea. The author uses the same techniques that he employed in "The Face of Battle", to discover how men have fought at sea, and to explore the nature of the individual's experience of combat over changing times.

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The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan

John Keegan's new book applies to maritime warfare the technique he put to such dazzling effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. His analysis concentrates on four key battles - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. The result not only illustrates the development of naval warfare through the sailing warship, the battleship, the aircraft carrier and the submarine, thereby giving a panoramic view, but takes the reader into the heart of the fighting, reminding us that the price of battle, whether on sea or land, is measuring in men's lives.
John Keegan was for many years Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst and is now the Defence Editor of The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of many books on military history, including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, The Mask of Command and his major study, The Second World War. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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ISBN 13 9780099671107
ISBN 10 0099671107
Title The Price of Admiralty
Author John Keegan
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 1990-10-18
Number of pages 352
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