True Glory: Story of the Royal Navy

by Warren Tute

tight binding, clean pages

Genres: History

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Warren Tute was born in County Durham in 1914. He entered the Navy in 1932, retiring in 1946, a career which included service on Earl Mountbatten's staff and a part in North African, Sicilian, and Normandy landings. After the war he was under contract to the late Ted Kavanagh of ITMA fame, writing for radio and television.

Over 30 of his works have been published. World sales of his books were well over the million, the most successful of his novels being The Rock, The Cruiser, Leviathan, The Golden Greek and The Admiral. .

At London Weekend Television he was Head of Scripts and originated The Commanding Sea television series for the BBC and co-authored the book with Clare Francis.

Reviews

[Robert Hepple · Rating 4 out of 5]

Published in 1983, The True Glory sets out to tell the story of the Royal Navy over the last thousand years approximately. As the 'Royal' prefix was only added half way through the thousand year period, this is a tall order. The book covers the period from Alfred's reign in 896 AD until the Falklands War of 1982. It does this very well, although there is a bias in favour of modern times, reflected in the fact that the 20th century takes up nearly half of the book. Nevertheless, the coverage of the first 900 years is actually very informative, and is pitched at the right level to give a decent overview in 288 pages with illustrations.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Covers the long history of what came to be called The Royal Navy. I found the first 100 pages up to Waterloo the most interesting. Especially Horatio Nelson and the age leading up to Pax Britannica.