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Ferdinand Mount: When Britannia Ruled the Waves, 5 December 2024
The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815-1945
by N.A.M. Rodger.
Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October 2024,978 0 7139 9412 4 Show More
by N.A.M. Rodger.
Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October 2024,
“... of near misses, such as when Louis, the French Dauphin, was offered the English throne after King John’s death and was cheered through the streets of London before being defeated in the Battle of Lincoln in May 1217 and then the Battle of Sandwich in August, perhaps the first ever battle fought by sailing ships in the open sea.Even the fiasco of the last ... ”