EMPIRE OF THE DEEP

The history of the Royal Navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our Empire. Few other nations have fallen so deeply in love than the British did with their navy, when, for the decades following the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain truly ruled the waves. 'Wilson enviably combines a gift for rattling narrative with lucid expositions of shifting laws, ideas and arguments' INDEPENDENT 'The sea boils and timbers creak as you read this smart, salty and invigorating work' DAILY TELEGRAPH