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Black Night off Finisterre
The Tragic Tale of an Early British Ironclad
By Arthur Hawkey

HMS Captain was the first sea-going turret warship built to provide all-round firepower. This definitive account of the loss of the Captain details the decade-long public controversy in parliament and the press that led to the building of the ship in unprecedented circumstances. The lengthy controversy involved a disagreement between the Captain's designer and inventor of the turntable turret ...

Available Formats: Hardcover
The Fifty-Year War
Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
By Norman Friedman

"To read a comprehensive history of the technical, military and political aspects of the Cold War, based on documents from the two super-powers, written by a scholar who is free of bias, is something I never thought I would be able to do. But in The Fifty-Year War I can. . . . For the men and women who are ...

Available Formats: Softcover
Raiders of the China Coast
CIA Covert Operations during the Korean War
By Frank Holober
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.
Available Formats: Softcover