drake and the tudor navy: with a history of the rise of england as a maritime power: volume two

Sir Julian S. Corbett was trained in law but became a noted British naval historian. In addition to the influential work Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, he wrote numerous other books, including England in the Seven Years' War: A Study in Combined Strategy, The Campaign of Trafalgar1805, and Drake and the Tudor Navy. He died in 1922.