China’s shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history. Commercial shipbuilding output jumped thirteen-fold from 2002–12, ensuring that Beijing has largely reached its goal of becoming the world’s leading shipbuilder. Yet progress is uneven, with military shipbuilding leading overall but with significant weakness in propulsion and electronics for military and civilian applications. It has never been ...
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Chinese Naval Shipbuilding
An Ambitious and Uncertain Course
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Hell to Pay
"Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947"
This new Updated and Expanded Edition of Hell to Pay elaborates on several areas examined in the previous version and includes new chapters on US-Soviet cooperation in the war against Imperial Japan:
• Projects Milepost and Hula, the secret Lend Lease expansion to prepare Soviet Far East forces for the planned invasion of Manchuria (chapter 11, "To break Japan's Spine").
• ...
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Female Tars
Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
“For a very long time now I have delighted in histories, letters, records, and memoirs to do with the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century; but Suzanne Stark’s book has told me many, many things I did not know, and I shall keep it on an honored shelf.”—Patrick O’Brian
The wives and female guests of commissioned ...
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