The publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition that captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full size, making the extensive handwritten annotation readable, while the ...
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume V: Destroyers, Torpedo Boats and Coastal Forces, 1876-1939"
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships.
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume VI: Submarines, Gunboats, Sloops and Minesweepers, 1860-1939"
The sixth volume of the series covers all submarines up to 1939, the diverse types of gunboat (from masted gun vessels through coastal “flat-irons” to river patrol craft), and sloops of various descriptions—small masted cruisers, convoy and minesweeping sloops of the Great War era, and interwar escort vessels.
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Volume I: Capital Ships 1895–1939
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume VII: Convoy Escorts, Mine Warfare Vessels and Naval Auxiliaries, 1860-1939"
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. This final volume of the series reproduces all the remaining material from the Perkins albums, covering convoy and minesweeping sloops of the Great War era, interwar escorts, mine warfare vessels, and important naval auxiliaries such ...
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Raiders of the China Coast
CIA Covert Operations during the Korean War
Author Frank Holober, a Harvard-educated Chinese specialist and veteran intelligence officer, takes the reader inside the little-known world of clandestine partisan operations early in the Cold War.
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Andrew Foote
Civil War Admiral on Western Waters
This biography traces the life and career of one of the U.S. Navy’s first admirals, Andrew Hull Foote. As flag officer of the Union’s western naval forces, Foote was a key figure in the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and helped open the Confederate heartland to the Union.
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Raiders from the Sea
The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII
The Special Boat Service (SBS) was a small force during World War II, never more than about three hundred men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in the Aegean, which the Germans controlled after the fall of Greece and Crete, this small commando force kept up a constant ...
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Redefining the Modern Military
The Intersection of Profession and Ethics
This edited collection examines the changing character of military professionalism and the role of ethics in the twenty-first-century military. The authors, who range from uniformed military to academics to non-uniformed professionals on the battlefield, delve into whether the concepts of Samuel Huntington, Morris Janowitz, and Sir John Hackett still apply, how training and continuing education play a role in defining ...
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