European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World Wa

European Navies and the Conduct of War provides a comparative history of seapower of the European powers over more than 500 years. The author team, made up of e

The Decline of European Naval Forces aims to provide insight into the evolution of Europe’s naval forces since the end of the Cold War. To illuminate the dras

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For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called ships of the line dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power an