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Brendan, Simms
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Fiction
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2009
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Basic Books
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English
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In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain’s key weapon, but in _Three Victories and a Defeat_ Brendan Simms argues that Britain’s true strength lay with the German aristocrats