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Title: The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan ISBN: 0-14-009650-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Attention All Hands: Read this Book
Comment: This was a book, cohorts asserted, that was certain to disappoint those smitten with aircraft carriers and battleships. After all, Keegan's central conclusion about the evolution of the capital ship (which will not be revealed here) seems anathema to those who have devoted their lives to surface warfare.
However, 'The Price of Admiralty'- with its soaring prose, penetrating gaze, and inescapable logic - is a classic in the canon of naval history. Keegan is an unconventional historian who offers an original thesis on naval warfare not by assessing the gains of victorious navies, but rather through the emerging trends in each era. In this sense, it is more than straight history. 'Admiralty' is a compass point for the future.
Keegan explores the meaning of the term 'command of the seas' and strives to discern whether any navy throughout history could lay claim to it. The influence of technology on the outcome of the four major battles covered in the book - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway, and the Battle of the Atlantic - is demonstrated, to great effect.
Perhaps the most important contribution of 'The Price of Admiralty' is its implicit exhortation to think beyond the present and into the future. Through the examples of four naval engagements, Keegan demonstrates the grasp governments had on developing technology, and how this affected war aims. Keegan's conclusions point to the necessity of 'thinking outside of the box' and applying the emerging technological trends to war on the high seas. Have we run aground on outdated and outmoded strategy? Or will we think ahead to battles not yet fought, and train future captains in forward-thinking tactics?
This is a remarkable book and a worthy successor to the works of Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful!
Comment: I always loved the Navy; I'm not sure why, but I loved the idea of ships duelling each other. I imagine that if I had one past life, it'd've been on the deck of a Royal Navy battleship, fighting the Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, or the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland.
I rather enjoyed this book, if you hadn't guessed yet. It's an intelligent analysis of four major fleet actions (counting a convoy as a fleet), discussing how technology changes the constraints and requirements of naval warfare.
I particularly enjoyed the accounts of the first two battles, Trafalgar and Jutland. The latter two were less enjoyable, since I already knew a great deal about Midway, and wasn't that interested in submarines. However, all four accounts are instructive.
If you're at all interested in military history, and especially in naval history, this is a wonderful book for you. Anything that Keegan writes, actually, is good.
Rating: 5
Summary: Naval Warfare - A Dissection
Comment: Keegan is one of those writers who has read and studied his subject vastly, but who is able, when necessary, to articulate his views with poinpoint precision. You never feel as if Keegan is making a throwaway generalization, and no words are wasted. Those skills and capacities he brings to his account of naval warfare since the days of fighting sail. In his first instalment, on Nelson's Trafalgar victory, he explains that naval warfare in 1805 had advanced to the same level of destructiveness as had land warfare in 1914, i.e., an appallingly high concentration of firepower over a small distance, matched only by the development of manoevre. On land, the solution was the tank; at sea, it was Nelson's method of all-or-nothing attack followed by envelopment. In other chapters we survey the Battle of Jutland (featuring some truly superb descriptions of the battleship duels), the struggle for the North Atlantic and the Battle of Midway. A brilliant essay not only for military enthusiasts but for anyone interested in general strategy.
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Title: The Mask of Command by John Keegan ISBN: 0140114068 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Face of Battle by John Keegan ISBN: 0140048979 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A History of Warfare by John Keegan ISBN: 0679730826 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Book of War by John Keegan ISBN: 0140296557 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Second World War by John Keegan ISBN: 014011341X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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