Author: Andrew Lambert

Originally named Juan Fernández, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventu...

The Royal Navy of Nelson's time was not short of heroes, nor of outstanding achievements, but even in this crowded field the career of Captain John...

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North W...

In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napol...

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states   A superb survey of the perenni...

How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914but shaped Britains success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andr...

A revolutionary ship symbolizing British naval might in the Victorian age, HMS Warrior was the world''s first iron-hulled, armored warship and now ...