Nursing assessment: A multidimensional approach

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Bellack, Janis P.

Wettern, Desmond

Nursing

Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Incorporated, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.

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Decline of British Sea Power

Jane's Information Group

<p>This important and controversial book is an almost month by month account of the many activities of the royal Navy since 1945. Although Britain can take great pride in the achievements of its post-war navy, this book is also a cogent argument for a larger and more efficient Navy able, once again , to play its traditional role as principal defender of an island nation depending almost entirely on seaborne trade. From Palestine to the Pacific Islands, from Iceland to Indonesia, the Royal Navy for the past quarter of a century has played a part in virtually every incident in which British was involved beyond her shores. Hardly a month went by in which British warships were not called upon somewhere to perform their centuries old task of providing a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions whether protecting merchant ships from the forces of power-hungry dictators East of Suez or fishermen against the depredations of foreign poachers in the Channel. Economic problems, bureaucratic delays and successive political leaders, by their failure like many before them to understand the continuing importance of the Navy to Britain, have reduced it to a shadow of its power and this is a process that continues unchecked. Desmond Wettern's book is a fascinating history which shows not only that the Navy, against a background of an almost constant shortage of men, money and ships, has served the nation and the world well, particularly in the field of safety at sea. It has, like the society from which it springs, changed almost beyond the recognition of those who served in it in WWII. Missiles have replaced guns, helicopters largely do the work of destroyers and one nuclear submarine is more powerful than whole battle fleets of the past. It is also an account of social changes.</p>

The Decline of British Seapower

Jones& Bartlett Learning

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