Buy this book on-line PADFIELD, PETER: : RULE BRITANNIA: The Victorian and Edwardian NavyLONDON.ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD.,1981. ISBN 0710007744.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj ['Review of the Reserve Fleet' by A.W. Fowles reproduced by the permission of Portsmouth City Museums.]; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks
or tears present.Miniscule bumping/rubbing
to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered boards with publisher's original dark blue cloth with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-246pp [paginated] includes introduction,7 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w illus/
plates/photographs/drawings (96) etc., references & select bibliography,
acknowledgements,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and separate contents & illus lists/tables.
The Royal Navy of the 19thC and early 20thC was a legendary force: it claimed supremacy in every ocean,policed the empire and provided the force behind Britain's power in the world.During this period the Service was completely transformed,from the wooden walls of Nelson's time to the steel dreadnoughts, destroyers and submarines which fought at Jutland.Peter Padfield describes the struggle to adapt to the radical changes which affected every aspect of weapons, tactics,education,propulsion,training and social attitudes.
'Rule Britannia' looks,in human terms,at
the background to the legends that accumulate about any service as splendid and uniquely powerful as the Royal Navy; and sets down the reality in the words of those who served.How an expedition was mounted to punish an African tribe; a slave dhow detected,captured and punished; what a sailor was paid and how he was disciplined; what he ate and the diseases he suffered; his pride; his moments of frolic and his exhilaration in the chase.
'RuLe Britannia' penetrates beneath the legend,describing each of the navy's tasks
and illustrating the lives and attitudes of both the officers and the men of this superbly arrogant force.
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