Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783

Brendan Simms

802 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Brita...

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