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Article: Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Seapower.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2006
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Great Harry's Navy How Henry VIII gave England Seapower Geoffrey Moorhouse Weidenfeld & Nicolson 372 pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 297 64544 7
WITH SOME BOOKS the author's approach to his subject is as important as his aim. Geoffrey Moorhouse, a self-declared 'generalist', states that he is writing chiefly for people who find history exciting 'not least because it can help to explain us to ourselves by referring to our past.' Well, amen to that. He also states that 'to treat any aspect of history without reference to conditions and happenings in adjacent fields has always seemed to me as inadequate.' Amen to that also. The author's aim is to prove the proposal ...