Not to sure if this is what your looking for but to Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman follows the Royal Navy from The Spanish Armada to the Falkland Islands. Lots of politics in there. Also How the Scots Invented the Modern World By the same author was enjoyable too.
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Ultima ratio regum. (The final argument of kings)
- Inscription on french cannons, on order of Louis XIV
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