Peter Padfield

(1932–2022) Journalist

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Peter Padfield was a journalist.

Quick Facts About Peter Padfield

Born: April 3, 1932
Died: March 1, 2022
Profession: Journalist

About Peter Padfield

[Wikidata] British author (1932–2022)... | [Wikipedia]

Peter L. N. Padfield was a British author, biographer, historian, and journalist who specialised in naval history and in the Second World War period. His early journalism appeared under the name P. L. N. Padfield. As well as his non-fiction work, he also published four novels.

Quotes by Peter Padfield

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age…

Peter Padfield

Age

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Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the…

Peter Padfield

Bonaparte

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“from 4,000 yards.4 He exceeded”

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It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces…

Peter Padfield

Britain

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The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great…

Peter Padfield

Army

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Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in…

Peter Padfield

Catholic

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