The Command of the Ocean
by N. A. M. Rodger |
The Wooden World
by N. A. M. Rodger | 
The Safeguard of the Sea
by N. A. M. Rodger |
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
by Paul Kennedy |
Trafalgar
by Roy Adkins | 
1759
by Frank McLynn | 
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
by Piers Brendon | 
Seize the Fire
by Adam Nicolson |
After the Victorians
by A. N. Wilson | 
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
by Lawrence James |
The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714
by Barry Coward |
A History of Britain: The Wars of the British: 1603-1776
by Simon Schama |
A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714
by Mark Kishlansky | 
A Short History of England
by G. K. Chesterton |
The Civil War
by Trevor Royle | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer |
To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy -- of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world.