TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Ben TI - Empire of the deep: the rise and fall of the British Navy SN - 9780297864080 U1 - 359.0094 WIL PY - 2013/// PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - Great Britain KW - Royal Navy KW - History KW - History, Naval N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing inevitable about this rise to maritime domination, nor was it ever an easy path ER -