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Britain Against Napoleon - The Organisation of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
Category: History
From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ...none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came ...Show more
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organisation of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
Category: History
From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ...none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it ...Show more
Convoys - The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by Roger Knight
Category: History
The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars--showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain's warships. These were wars of attrition and ra ...Show more
The Pursuit of Victory : The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
Category: unmapped
The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy of the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in batt ...Show more
William IV: A King at Sea by Roger Knight
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William IV, 'the Sailor King', is best known for his naval career and for living for twenty years with the actress Mrs Jordan, with whom he had ten children. Knight's book shows that William was pretty much a disaster in whatever field he found himself.
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