Robert Holland's masterly history of the Mediterranean is a pleasure to read. Blue-Water Empire shows how Britain's mastery of the Middle Sea shaped the modern world, whilst reminding us how profoundly the Me ...
Simon Ball (author of THE BITTER SEA: THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1935-1949)
[A] rich and readable account of the British in the Middle Sea ... As Holland's learned, lucid and enjoyable work makes clear, many British politicians saw the Mediterranean as the pre-eminent global strategic arena ...
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Blue-Water Empire is an important corrective to current historical amnesia ... it will remain the definitive account of Anglo-Mediterranean history for years to come
Amanda Foreman, New Statesman
Robert Holland's masterly history of the Mediterranean is a pleasure to read. Blue-Water Empire shows how Britain's mastery of the Middle Sea shaped the modern world, whilst reminding us how profoundly the Me ...
Simon Ball (author of THE BITTER SEA: THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1935-1949)
[A] rich and readable account of the British in the Middle Sea ... As Holland's learned, lucid and enjoyable work makes clear, many British politicians saw the Mediterranean as the pre-eminent global strategic arena ...
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Blue-Water Empire is an important corrective to current historical amnesia ... it will remain the definitive account of Anglo-Mediterranean history for years to come
Amanda Foreman, New Statesman
Robert Holland's masterly history of the Mediterranean is a pleasure to read. Blue-Water Empire shows how Britain's mastery of the Middle Sea shaped the modern world, whilst reminding us how profoundly the Me ...
Simon Ball (author of THE BITTER SEA: THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1935-1949)
[A] rich and readable account of the British in the Middle Sea ... As Holland's learned, lucid and enjoyable work makes clear, many British politicians saw the Mediterranean as the pre-eminent global strategic arena ...
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Blue-Water Empire is an important corrective to current historical amnesia ... it will remain the definitive account of Anglo-Mediterranean history for years to come