The Command of the Ocean

I have never reviewed a book that has given me more pleasure … a masterpiece – Kevin Myers * Mail on Sunday *
A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of Britain … it is likely to be regarded as one of the greatest works of historical scholarship of our age – Paul Kennedy * The Sunday Times *
Magisterial … triumphantly succeeds in moving the Royal Navy back to centre-stage in our islands’ story – Andrew Roberts * Sunday Telegraph *
Quite outstanding – Sir Michael Howard * The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year *
Stunning … By the time the book closes there is no doubt who holds command – Simon Heffer * Literary Review *
Monumental … Rodger is our finest naval historian – Saul David * Daily Telegraph *
Exciting and original … Here is that rarest of all historians, the expert with the generalist’s approach – Geoffrey Moorhouse * Guardian *
Truly in a class of its own … at turns witty, provocative and incisive … you finish it wishing for more – F. J. M. Scott * History Today *
Scholarly and erudite, but also a thrilling story, told with wit and verve * Economist, Books of the Year *
Splendid … There is plenty of old-fashioned narrative in this encyclopaedic blockbuster … the writing advances across the pages like a squadron of dreadnoughts – John Parfitt * Spectator *

N.A.M. Rodger is Professor of Naval History at Exeter University and Anderson Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum. He is the author of The Wooden World and The Admiralty as well as the highly acclaimed first volume of his naval history of Britain, The Safeguard of the Sea.

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