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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy General Editor, J.R. Hill, Consultant Editor, Bryan Ranft Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995, 480 pp., ISBN 0192116754, L25.00
This is a study of the Royal Navy, one of the supports on which the British Empire was built. Here in all its glory, in one volume, is its history up to the present day. Even for those residents of this island who live the furthest from the sea, the Royal Navy has always held a mystical fascination....