The Royal Navy since 1815 A New Short History /

• Main Author: Grove, Eric J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Series: British History in Perspective
• Subjects: History.; Great Britain > History.; History of Britain and Ireland.

This book fills an important gap in the literature on the history of the modern Royal Navy. Eric Grove provides the only up-to-date, single-authored short history of the service over the last two hundred years, synthesizing the new work and latest research on the subject which has radically transfor...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Coming of Steam
• The Steam Battlefleet
• The Ironclad Age
• The Two Power Standard
• The First World War
• The Interwar Period
• The Second World War
• The Post War Navy
• The Falklands and After
• Index.