David Hannay: 6 books

British post-imperial decline has been much examined. In these memoirs, David Hannay, one of Britain's leading behind-the-scenes players in this process, provides fascinating frontline information and insights into Britain's complex relations with Washington and Europe. From his early career in the...

Admiral Robert Blake (1599–1657) founded British sea power. In this 1886 biography, the distinguished naval historian David Hannay brings to vivid life a career that spanned the English Civil War, the first Anglo-Dutch war, and the struggle against the Barbary pirates.

This biography of Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico from 1876-1911 and former general in the Mexican army, examines the life and events of this controversial figure in Mexican history—his impoverished childhood, his rise to power, and his exile following the Mexican Revolution.

Beginning with the medieval navy, this popular history traces the rise of British sea power through the time of the Tudors to the Revolution of 1688, when King James II was overthrown. It covers the reign of Elizabeth, the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War, the Dutch Wars, and the Algerine pirates—in an enjoyable yet informative way.

The general rules by which this series is governed have been fully stated by the Editor in the first published volume, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory. It will therefore not be necessary for me to do more than endeavour to justify the particular application of them in this book....

PREFACE I submit this second part of the Short History of the Royal Navy to the kindness of the reader and the animadversions of reviewers with a profound sense of its deficiencies. That some were inevitable where so much had to be told in so narrow a space is no excuse for such errors as I...