The Heroic Record of the British Navy
The Heroic Record of the British Navy

Author: Archibald Hurd

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This book describes the heroic war history of the British navy. This book describes a hard-fought war by some of many great sailors in the history of the British navy. A comprehensive record computed together by Archibald Hurd and H. H. Bashford formed a part of the knowledge base for future generations of the British navy.

Heroic Failure and the British
Heroic Failure and the British

Author: Stephanie L. Barczewski

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0300180063

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Aan de hand van heroïsche mislukkingen zoals de Charge van de Lichte Brigade en Captain Scott wordt licht geworpen op het Brits zijn.

Heroic Failure and the British
Heroic Failure and the British

Author: Stephanie Barczewski

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0300186819

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From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain’s embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humorous stories from history, Barczewski’s survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.