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Statesmen and Sea Power
Statesmen and Sea Power
By Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond
Oxford University Press, 1947, 369 pp
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Starting with the Age of Elizabeth, Admiral Richmond shows how British statesmen, as distinguished from the professional sailors, provided for the growth and power of the British Navy through long-range planning and direction. This penetrating study is an expansion of the Ford Lectures delivered at Oxford in 1943 and was published shortly before the author's death.

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