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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815-1945
by N.A.M. Rodger.
Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October 2024,978 0 7139 9412 4 Show More
by N.A.M. Rodger.
Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October 2024,
“... full liberty to deal with the interests of the country according to your own fancy.’ Enter Sir William Parker, who proved equally headstrong, pushed up the Yangtse to capture Nanking and compelled the Chinese to more humiliating terms, including the permanent surrender of Hong Kong. In the Second Opium (or Arrow) War, the British bombarded and captured ... ”