The earths surface is seventy per cent water, ninety per cent of Britain's trades and raw materials are imported by sea. Indeed this country needs three hundred shiploads a week to subsist. But even in a post Falkland's, Margaret Thatcher government there is no minister for the navy.

The rise and fall of the British navy is an eloquent indictment of successive government neglect of the senior service since 1945.

Hardback with d/c published 1986, in nice used condition.