The Royal Navy's long and glorious tradition of service to Britain is covered in this fascinating, illustrated history—from the age of empire, when it was the most powerful navy in the world, through two world wars, to its present status as a vital part of the NATO alliance.
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The Royal Navy
An Illustrated History
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume III: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part I"
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. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artifact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by anyone besides the museum’s curators, for whom it is a ...
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume IV: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part 2"
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. In collaboration with the National Maritime Museum, the publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full size, making 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.
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 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
ISBN: 978-1-84832-382-7 | $85.00 | ...
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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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Strategic Theories
Admiral Raoul Castex is France’s most important modern naval strategist. Military historian Eugenia Kiesling offers the essence of Castex’s original five volume study, Théories Stratégiques, in a useful one-volume abridgment and a very readable translation. It emphasizes the admiral’s method of strategic analysis while omitting most of the historical narrative. Included are chapters defining strategy and relating it to policy ...
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In the Teeth of the Wind
Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
The dawning of aerial warfare is fully recounted in this dramatic memoir of the first bomber squadron mission of the Royal Navy Air Service over the Western Front. The author recounts his own extraordinary 101 missions, including the operation that very nearly decided the war.
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First Team and Guadalcanal Campaign
Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942
From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers through the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picking up the story after Midway, the author presents a scrupulously accurate account of what happened, describing in rich detail the actual planes and pilots pitted in the ferocious battles that helped ...
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