The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare from Trafalgar to Midway

In , leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. “The best military historian of our generation.”—Tom Clancy “ stands alongside Mr. Keegan’s earlier works in its power to impart both the big and little pictures of war.”—The