Full name: The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare

Author: John Keegan Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140096507 0140096507

Military historian John Keegan's gripping history of naval warfare's evolution. In The Price of Admirality, leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. "The best military historian of our generation."--Tom Clancy "The Price of Admirality stands alongside Mr. Keegan's earlier works in its power to impart both the big and little pictures of war."--The New York Times Similar books: Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan The American Civil War by John Keegan The Book of War by John Keegan The Iraq War by John Keegan Intelligence in War by John Keegan Military Blunders by Saul David The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson Tank by Patrick Wright The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson The Face of Battle by John Keegan The Art of War in the Western World by Archer Jones The Mask of Command by John Keegan A History of Warfare by Bernard Montgomery The Savage Wars Of Peace by Max Boot War Made New by Max Boot Warriors by Max Hastings On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan A History Of Warfare by John Keegan The Sea Warriors by Richard Woodman