Andrew Gordon teaches at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham. The Rules of the Game won the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature and the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award.
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When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultu... SEE MORE