Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature 2005

Winner of 2005 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature

Command of the OceanThe Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
N.A.M. Rodger

"...erudite, full of authority and sparkling with originality. This book is the second volume of a trilogy that should become the pre-eminent work on British Naval History..."

The winner of the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature 2005 is Professor Nicholas Rodger for his book The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815, the second in his three volume history of British naval power published by Penguin.

Read N.A.M. Rodger in the RUSI Journal here>

Shortlisted books

The British Seaborne Empire
Jeremy Black

The Secrets of Rue St Roch: Intelligence Operations Behind Enemy Lines in the First World War
Janet Morgan

In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
David Reynolds

1914-1918: The History of The First World War
David Stevenson

The Puppet Masters: Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events
John Hughes-Wilson



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