Command at sea : naval command and control since the sixteenth century
Palmer, Michael A.2005
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Palmer reassesses five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam and the technologies that improved communications and simultaneously shrank naval commanders' windows of decision, profiling successful naval commanders and their places in world history.
Main title:
Command at sea : naval command and control since the sixteenth century / Michael A. Palmer.
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Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Collation:
[ix], 377 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780674016811 (hbk)
Dewey class:
359.33041
Language:
English
BRN:
202458
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