Empire of the Seas: How the navy forged the modern world

The BBC TV Tie-in to Dan Snow’s Timewatch series exploring the navy’s rise over four centuries.

The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality – that the nation''s new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans.

This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterp...