Название: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy
Автор: J.R. Hill
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 520
Размер: 372,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This eponymous complement to The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army doesn't quite sing "Rule Britannia," but it does lavishly chronicle the many-centuried saga whereby that patriotic anthem's assertion became indisputable. Such at least was the case during Britain's nineteenth-century apogee, a period of somnolent superiority until imperial Germany constructed its fleet.