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  • The British Way of War

    Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyondLeading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854–1922) brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy.Corbett skillfully integrated classical strategic theory, British ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Franklin

    Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were fated never to return. The cause of their loss remains a mystery. In Franklin, Andrew Lambert presents a gripping account of the worst catastrophe ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Seapower States

    Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    "A fascinating geopolitical chronicle . . . A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called 'the watery part of the world.'" — The Wall Street JournalIn this volume, one of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states. Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crusoe's Island

    A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific.The tiny island assumed a remarkable position in British culture, most famously in Daniel Defoe's novel. Andrew Lambert reveals the truth behind the legend of this place, bringing to life the voices of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nelson

    Britannia's God of War

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of one man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Challenge

    Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence.War polarised America. The ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Hunting the Essex

    A Journal of the Voyage of HMS Phoebe, 1813–1814

    by Midshipman Allen Gardiner ...
    In February 1813 the British frigate Phoebe set out on a secret mission that would involve sailing halfway around the world to attack American settlements in the Pacific Northwest. The United States, frustrated at the treatment of its shipping by the combatants in the Napoleonic Wars, had finally opened hostilities against the British in the previous June. From the American perspective the War of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Admirals

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives and battles of eleven of our most remarkable admirals - men such as James II and Robert Blake - Andrew Lambert's book stretches from the Spanish ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Maritime Strategy and Global Order

    Markets, Resources, Security

    by Daniel Moran, James A. Russell, Andrew Lambert, Geoffrey Till, Giuseppe Schivardi, Alessio Patalano, Klaus Dodds, Larrie D. Ferreiro, Steven Haines0, Michael T. Klare1, John Ferris2 ...
    Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating the ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    No More Napoleons

    How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 12 min

    How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte—manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empireAt the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe. The continent's borders were redrawn, and the French Empire, once a significant threat to British security, was for now cut down to size. But after decades of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Crimean War

    British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853–56

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age

    by Andrew Lambert ...
    HMS Dreadnought (1906) is closely associated with the age of empire, the Anglo-German antagonism and the naval arms race before the First World War. Yet it was also linked with a range of other contexts - political and cultural, national and international - that were central to the Edwardian period. The chapters in this volume investigate these contexts and their intersection in this symbolically ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD