Britain at Sea
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Britain at Sea
Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century.
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15. 21st Century
Lord West concludes his history of the Royal Navy in the 20th century.
Since the end of the Cold War, major changes in Britain have taken place...
14. Falklands
Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy in the Falklands War.
Lord West travels to the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, home of the Fleet...
13. North Atlantic
Lord West tells the story of how Britain and the Royal Navy came to focus heavily on the North Atlantic in the late Cold War.
During his time in...
12. Sky, Surf and Undersea
Lord West tells the story of how the Royal Navy lost its aircraft carriers but gained the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent.
The 1960s were a t...
11. Decolonisation
Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy's role in Britain's withdrawal from empire.
Travelling to Malta, he explains the Navy's central role...
10. Early Cold War
Lord West describes how the Royal Navy fought a series of conflicts in East Asia during the early Cold War.
From the Amethyst Incident in China...
9. Whitehall Warriors
Lord West explains how Britain, and the Royal Navy, adjusted to dramatically straitened circumstances after the Second World War.
He des...
8. Pacific Horrors
Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy in the Pacific during the Second World War.
Initially beaten, the Royal Navy fought back, and by the...
7. Mediterranean Challenges
Lord West travels to Malta to tell the story of the Royal Navy's incredibly difficult war in the Mediterranean between 1940 and 1945.
The Medite...
6. Battles for Britain
Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the Second World War, from early fights in Norway to the Battle of the Atlantic.
And he show...
5. Inter-War Trouble
Lord West explores the Royal Navy's three battles between the wars.
The three opponents were a new department in Whitehall, communists in Russi...
4. The Navy Wins
Lord West looks at how the Royal Navy won the First World War.
The Royal Navy's role in winning the conflict has often been overlooked - drowned...
3. War Begins
Lord West looks at the Royal Navy's strategy for winning the First World War.
How in the early years of the war did it fail to bring its might t...
2. New Technology
Lord West looks at how a revolution in naval technology transformed ideas of warfare, contributed to the arms race and laid the foundations for victor...
1. New Century
Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century, when through political, social, technological and economic turmoil, the N...