The comparative format used in Admirals could extend beyond the Royal Navy and United States Navy to Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan. Researching those navies properly would require fluent Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, and German. The method depends on access to each navy's own evidence and the language skills to use it. Comparative naval leadership history needs sources from the cultures being compared, rather than an English-only synthesis.
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Comparative admiral history demands multilingual research
Comparable studies of Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and German admirals would require fluent access to several source languages.