Reviews
...a very good book, one that utilizes Keith's career as a lens through which to view the larger history of the Royal Navy during the Age of Revolution…an elegantly written study of one of the most important figures of the French and Napoleonic Wars.
--H-Maritime
This fine and detailed biopgrahy is very much a "warts and all" view of a man with a notable 54-year naval career.
--Ships and Shipping
McCranie has done an important service in setting Keith's personality against the situations in which he found himself to explain a career which deserves to be better known.
--Journal of Military History
…a fine treatment of Admiral Lord Keith, a very competent commander whom glory eluded, sometimes by the narrowest of margins.
--International Journal of Maritime History
…the most comprehensive biography of the Admiral to date. …a delightful read.
--History Matters: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research
" McCranie displays a delicate judgment in assessing Keith's decision making and responsibility in the many operations in which he was involved over the course of twenty years."
--The Historian
" The most substantial work on Keith. That McCranie's biography of Keith is a useful contribution to our understanding of the Royal Navy of the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is beyond doubt."
--H-Net Reviews