- Published: 3 October 2024
- ISBN: 9781846147234
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 976
The Price of Victory
A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945
- Published: 3 October 2024
- ISBN: 9781846147234
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 976
Praise for THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN: I have never reviewed a book that has given me more pleasure … a masterpiece
Kevin Myers, Mail on Sunday
Praise for THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN: A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of Britain … it is likely to be regarded as one of the greatest works of historical scholarship of our age
Paul Kennedy, The Sunday Times
Praise for THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN: Magisterial … triumphantly succeeds in moving the Royal Navy back to centre-stage in our islands’ story
Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
Praise for THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN: Quite outstanding
Sir Michael Howard, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year
Magisterial … a very considerable and scholarly work of synthesis which will provide a baseline for future work on Britain and its naval history for a generation or more
Jonathan Boff, Spectator
Nicholas Rodger is our foremost naval historian … At last, with The Price of Victory, NAM Rodger’s great history of naval warfare is complete – and this final volume is a fascinating triumph … deeply-researched
Simon Heffer, Telegraph
This mighty book, the concluding volume of a trilogy chronicling the history of the Royal Navy, is the size of an aircraft carrier. Covering the years 1815-1945, Volume III weighs in at nearly 1,000 pages. Max Hastings is right to describe it as a "great work", full of "unfamiliar facts and magisterial judgments
Robbie Millen, Saturday Times
Within Rodger’s pages is everything you will ever need to know about the evolution of warships and their weapons across a century and a half. Throughout, the author is clear-sighted about the over-rigid exercise of command at sea ... The book’s chapters on the navy’s social history are among its best, highlighting the elevation of loyalty as a supreme virtue, discouraging junior officers from thinking for themselves ... Rodger writes with such authority [and] pays just tribute to the contribution of the women of the Women’s Royal Naval Service
Max Hastings, Sunday Times