Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. 691pp. With b/w illustrations and maps. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). Edges slightly browned. Else a clean and tight copy. The author discusses the importance of sea-power to the fortunes of Britain, and the fluctuations in its perceived importance over a period of almost a thousand years. Includes a chronology.

Military Subjects::Naval History N.A.M.RODGER, Safeguard, Sea, Naval History, Britain, Volume One, 660-1649, sea-power, fluctuations, importance, dustwrapper first edition Maritime Military Naval