Dan Van Der Vat - Standard of Power: The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century

This book is hugely interesting to anyone interested in the Royal Navy and is very imparial and free of depressing fall of the british empire rhetoric, just naval fact whilst accurately decribing the 20th century from the point of view of the Royal Navy. It's own appraisal of 'worts and all' is very accurate showing the many triumphs and failures of the royal navy while remaining thankfully apolitical.

A great book with just the right amount of depth conveing large amounts of information without become a task to read.