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The Price of Victory
A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945
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The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's great 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, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy...
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The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's great 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, 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, the culmination of one of the most admired British historical works in recent decades.
The Price of Victory is based on a lifetime's learning and refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses. Naval specialists will find much that is new and will be invigorated by the originality of Rodger's judgements; but everyone who is interested in one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding.
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ISBN: 9780140288971
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 45.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 696g
Pages: 976
About the Author
N. A. M. Rodger is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and former Professor of Naval History at the University of Exeter. He has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History, the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, the British Academy Book prize, the Hattendorf Prize, and the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum.
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