Название: Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World (Osprey General Military)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 15 Mb
Язык: English
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality - that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity and our democracy.