Libro The Fleets Behind the Fleet De Dixon, William Macneile

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

William Macneile Dixon

Editorial

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm

Peso

0.07 kg.

ISBN13

9781508557975

Categorías

Antologías
Historia de la humanidad

The Fleets Behind the Fleet

William Macneile Dixon (Autor) · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Fleets Behind the Fleet"

What follows is not written to praise our merchant sailors and fishermen. They are indeed worthy of all praise. But we looked for nothing else than that they would in every circumstance of trial and danger show themselves to be what they are, peerless. At what date or on what occasion in their history have they failed? From a fierier ordeal a firmer courage and a harder resolution have emerged, as we believed it would. Of this the world is already very well aware. Their friends know it and their foes. What remains then is not to praise them but to instruct ourselves. Our vision has been limited. We knew that in the Navy lay our strength, but in our thoughts we defined it as the Royal Navy. Till these troubled years the Merchant Service had for many Englishmen only a shadowy existence. For the first time it has come acutely home to us that "the sea is all one, -the navy is all one."