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A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron

by Rudyard Kipling

Kipling became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in 1898 which were collected as A Fleet in Being. And as always with Kipling there is that wonderful sardonic humor and attention to the lower orders of being.

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English

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English

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1898

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