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British Warships of the Second World War
Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans
This volume reproduces a representative selection of official plans depicting the main types of warship with which the Royal Navy fought World War II. Carefully chosen from the incomparable collection at the National Maritime Museum, these range from battleships and fleet aircraft carriers, through cruisers, destroyers and submarines, to examples of the vast array of specialist vessels built during the ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
U.S. Navy Against Axis
"Surface Combat, 1941-1945"
The U.S. Navy against the Axis tells the story of the U.S. Navy’s surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. The book refutes the widely-held notion that the attack on Pearl Harbor rendered battleships obsolete and that aviation and submarines dominated the Pacific War. It demonstrates how the surface fleet played a decisive role at ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Why Vietnam Matters
An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
“Phillips’s short chapter on lessons the U.S. should have learned from the Vietnam War should be mandatory reading in Washington, D.C.” — Publishers Weekly
“It is, among other things, a wonderful read, full of detail and drama.” —George Packer, The New Yorker
Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam ...
Available Formats: Softcover