Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World
by Peter Padfield
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In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable.Tags
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Peter Padfield's trilogy includes Maritime Power and Maritime, Supremacy, both published by Overlook. He was born in British India and served as a navigating officer in P0 liners to India and Australia. After producing an acclaimed life of Admiral Karl Donitz, he wrote biographies of two other Nazi leaders. His work as a naval historian received show more the Mountbatten Maritime Prize. show less
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