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> British Naval History is fascinating Tell me more. I'm four volumes in to the Aubrey-Maturin series, and will read the remaining 16, but I'm curious about, s

> British Naval History is fascinating Tell me more. I'm four volumes in to the Aubrey-Maturin series, and will read the remaining 16, but I'm curious about, say, the top two or three non-fiction books for the interested layman.

noir_lord 6y ago
So many and over such a wide span to narrow it down to 2-3 definitively so I'll cover ground instead. 1) The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815[1] (actually book 2 but the first covers an earlier period this covers the period across the Act of Union - when England/Scotland became with Wales the United Kingdom and when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin - the only modern analogue that sorta fits is the US navy compared to everyone else post-WW2 up to well right now) 2) Dreadnought[2] which covers the late 19th early 20th (Birth of Queen Victoria to the start of WW1) - when the Dreadnought type-class battleship was considered the premier strategic weapon of it's day. For the rest it's a vast field (that I've barely scratched - history is a hobby for me part of the perpetual "why is the world the way it is" fascination with everything) as always wikipedia is your friend :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_18th%E2%80%9319th_century_Royal_Naval_history#Royal_Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_18th%E2%80%931... For more modern naval stuff (where modern equals ~a century ago) I can heartily recommend the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw Drachinifel - he has a way of providing information dense content in an entertaining way - his video on the technological arms race in metallurgy for ships armour for example is superb. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Ocean-History-Britain-1649-1815/dp/0141026901/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Command+of+the+Ocean&qid=1618042757&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Ocean-History-Britain-1649-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book)
- pjmorris 6y ago
  Fantastic, thank you. I have the same "perpetual "why is the world the way it is" fascination with everything)"
- pjmorris 6y ago
  'The Command of the Ocean, "when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin", sounds like exactly the kind of thing I am looking for.

noir_lord 6y ago

So many and over such a wide span to narrow it down to 2-3 definitively so I'll cover ground instead. 1) The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815[1] (actually book 2 but the first covers an earlier period this covers the period across the Act of Union - when England/Scotland became with Wales the United Kingdom and when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin - the only modern analogue that sorta fits is the US navy compared to everyone else post-WW2 up to well right now) 2) Dreadnought[2] which covers the late 19th early 20th (Birth of Queen Victoria to the start of WW1) - when the Dreadnought type-class battleship was considered the premier strategic weapon of it's day. For the rest it's a vast field (that I've barely scratched - history is a hobby for me part of the perpetual "why is the world the way it is" fascination with everything) as always wikipedia is your friend :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_18th%E2%80%9319th_century_Royal_Naval_history#Royal_Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_18th%E2%80%931... For more modern naval stuff (where modern equals ~a century ago) I can heartily recommend the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw Drachinifel - he has a way of providing information dense content in an entertaining way - his video on the technological arms race in metallurgy for ships armour for example is superb. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Ocean-History-Britain-1649-1815/dp/0141026901/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Command+of+the+Ocean&qid=1618042757&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Ocean-History-Britain-1649-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book)

pjmorris 6y ago
Fantastic, thank you. I have the same "perpetual "why is the world the way it is" fascination with everything)"
pjmorris 6y ago
'The Command of the Ocean, "when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin", sounds like exactly the kind of thing I am looking for.