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The Royal Navy since 1815: A New Short History
Contemporary Review, May, 2005
The Royal Navy since 1815: A New Short History. Eric J. Grove. Palgrave-Macmillan. [pounds sterling]49.50. x + 300 pages. ISBN 0-333-72125-X. This history makes use of recent research into British naval history and is designed to 'synthesize their work to provide a relatively short narrative' that not only gives the history of the Royal Navy since Waterloo but its modern structure and work.
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One of the major themes is the unending struggle to meet successive governments' demands that the Navy be both strong enough to maintain Britain's standing and be as cheap and small as possible. The author is particularly good in discussing the position of the modern Navy both during the Cold War and after. He is surely right to say that the present administration's 'interventionist impulse'--or 'Tony's Wars' in common terms--has secured the Navy's future, at least its immediate future.
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