Roger Knight
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197720-1
EAN 9780141977201
William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but he was over promoted at an early age and saw his years of active service marked by a series of ...
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Based on extensive original research, this book reveals how trade worked in early ninteenth-century Southeast Asia through the study of one merchant and his wide-ranging network: Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish 'adventurer (his word) who established an enduring business in Batavia around 1816. The book demonstrates that Southeast Asian maritime trade was just as important ...
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Britain Against Napoleon
The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103894-0
EAN 9780141038940
From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeatFor more than twenty ...
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The Pursuit of Victory
The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100761-8
EAN 9780141007618
The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in battle, and also explores his strategic grasp, the ...
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