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Historic Ship Models of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Kriegstein Collection
By Arnold Kriegstein and Henry Kriegstein
In terms of quality, historical significance, and sheer numbers, the Kriegstein family’s ship model collection in the United States is the finest in private hands anywhere in the world. Principally made up of official 17th and 18th century models in the Admiralty or Navy Board style, the collection is unrivaled by any museum outside the British national collection at Greenwich. As ...
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Torpedo Bombers, 1900-1950
An Illustrated History
By JeanDenis Lepage

The torpedo-bomber reached its zenith in World War II, particularly from 1940–42, with notable successes at the Battle of Taranto, the sinking of the Bismarck, and Pearl Harbor. It was the weapon of choice for both the US and Japanese in the big Pacific battles such as Midway. In the latter stages of the war, increasingly effective anti-aircraft fire and ...

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The Russian Baltic Fleet in the Time of War and Revolution, 1914-1918
The Recollections of Admiral S N Timiryov
Translated by Stephen Ellis

The translation of these memoirs brings an important and authoritative historical source to those interested in Russian or naval history who are unable to access them in the original Russian. Their author, Rear Admiral S N Timiryov, was well placed to make  observations on the character of many of the significant commanding officers and also many of the operations ...

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Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century
Tsushima, Jutland, Midway
By Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera

In the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role. This symbol of a nation’s scientific and military genius has very often been the deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the names of several clashes down into legend. With this collection, Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera plunge into the heart of three of the twentieth century’s greatest ...

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Coalition Management and Escalation Control in a Multinuclear World
By Jacquelyn K. Davis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff; Foreword by Adm. James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
Coalition Management and Escalation Control in a Multinuclear World examines the impact of new technologies on twenty-first-century crisis management and armed conflict, as well as the unprecedented number and types of actors involved in current and potential flash-points. The book’s basic thesis is that new technologies are changing how wars are fought and providing a broadening range of escalation options ...
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A Ceaseless Watch
Australia's Third-Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942
By Angus Britts

A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post–World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia’s greatest security crisis—the military threat posed by Japan throughout the majority of 1942—the work takes the reader all ...

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Warship Builders
An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding, 1922–1945
By Thomas Heinrich
Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world’s largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized ...
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Battleship Texas
Naval History Special Edition
By Lawrence Burr

USS Texas BB-35, a Dreadnought era battleship launched in May 1912, served the U.S. Navy for 34 years, including WWI and WWII.

WWI war service included North Sea convoy duty for merchant ships from Scotland to Norway, and North Sea sweeps to counter potential forays by the German Fleet. The highlight service was escorting the German Fleet in its surrender ...

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Battleship Iowa
Naval History Special Edition
By Lawrence Burr

USS Iowa BB-61, the first of four Iowa class battleships built for the U.S. Navy, was launched in 1942. Capable of thirty-three knots and armed with nine new fifty-caliber sixteen-inch guns, she was the pinnacle of battleship design for the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Iowa class perfectly merged the heavy armor of battleships with the speed ...

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HMS Terror
The Design, Fitting and Voyages of a Polar Discovery Ship
By Matthew Betts
This book documents the history, design, modification, and fitting of HMS Terror, one of the world’s most successful polar exploration vessels. Part historical narrative and part technical design manual, this book provides, for the first time, a complete account of 
Terror’s unique career, as well as an assessment of her sailing abilities in polar conditions, a record of her ...
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