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Author: Christopher M. Bell (Associate Professor, Dalhousie University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9780199678501
ISBN 10: 0199678502
Pages: 462
Publication Date: 08 May 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
richly detailed study ... This book is an essential corrective to assumptions about the great wartime premier Andrew Lambert, BBC History Magazine
richly detailed study ... This book is an essential corrective to assumptions about the great wartime premier Andrew Lambert, BBC History Magazine Churchill and Sea Power won the CNRS Keith Matthews Award as the best new Canadian work of maritime history published in 2012. Buttressed with solid scholarship this readable and engaging study is a fresh and balanced examination of Winston Churchill's impact on how two world wars were fought at sea and on peacetime naval policy. Jan Drent, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord
Bell's important study leaves the reader with a sense not just of Churchill's prowess as a naval strategist but of his wisdom as a grand strategist. In taking the long view of Churchill's career, Bell puts Churchill's views on sea power, whether operational or strategic, into a larger context. In the many positions he held, Churchill evaluated what the nation needed for its national security in a world of rapid geopolitical and technological changes, and he accepted that those needs went far beyond sea power. --Journal of British Studies
richly detailed study ... This book is an essential corrective to assumptions about the great wartime premier Andrew Lambert, BBC History Magazine Churchill and Sea Power won the CNRS Keith Matthews Award as the best new Canadian work of maritime history published in 2012. Buttressed with solid scholarship this readable and engaging study is a fresh and balanced examination of Winston Churchill's impact on how two world wars were fought at sea and on peacetime naval policy. Jan Drent, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord The thoroughness and calm objectivity of Bell's work makes this book essential reading for students of both Churchill's career and modern British sea power. Raymond Callahan, American Historical Review
Author Information
Christopher M. Bell is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars (2000) and co-editor of Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003).
