The Royal Navy Vol. 1 of 5: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Royal Navy Vol. 1 of 5: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present<br><br>Yet even if British students were in the habit of thoroughly digesting the ordinary British histories which are within their reach they would still know little about the nature and services of the British Navy. Our greater historians deal very sparingly with those subjects. Many of them seem to have been deterred by an exaggerated estimate of the attendant difficulties or by an impression that naval history is far too technical to be understood by lay people. Others have altogether failed to awaken to the importance of the matter and have by that very failure convicted themselves of incompetence. As for the popular historians the compilers of school histories text-books and such-like they have for the most part and indeed almost without exception bungled where they have not shamefully scamped the facts of our naval story.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.