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Book Reviews, First World War, Maritime Strategy, Naval History, Naval Tactics, Naval Warfare
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Latest Book Review, 8 September

08 Sep 23

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a forthcoming book (due to be published on 28 September) from Osprey on the German High Seas Fleet in the First World War.

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German High Seas Fleet 1914-1918: The Kaiser’s Challenge to the Royal Navy

08 Sep 23

By ANGUS KONSTAM (Osprey Publishing – £15.99) ISBN 978 1 472856470 80 pages Osprey have built a reputation for short, […]

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Book Reviews, General, Merchant Navy, Naval History, People, Second World War
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Latest Book Reviews, 5 September

05 Sep 23

BRE. The latest book reviews are now available. The two reviews both consider books by Robin Knight, one on Mike Cumberlege and his exploits in the Second World War, the other looks at those who were pupils at Pangbourne before joining the armed forces, particularly the Royal Navy.

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Book Reviews, Air Power, Maritime Strategy, Naval Aviation, Second World War
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Latest Book Review, 1 September

01 Sep 23

BRE. The latest book review is now available. it considers a short book exploring German and Italian efforts to develop carrier airpower in the lead up to, and during the Second World War.

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German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II

01 Sep 23

By DOUGLAS C DILDY & RYAN K NOPPEN (Osprey Publishing – £11.99) ISBN 978 1 4728 4676 1 48 pages […]

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Air Power, Battle of the Atlantic, Book Reviews, Convoy Operations, Doctrine, Indo-Pacific, Maritime Strategy, Merchant Navy, Naval Aviation, Naval History, Second World War, Strategic Bombing, United States Navy
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Latest Book Reviews, 18 August

18 Aug 23

BRE. The latest book reviews are now available. One considers a reprint of a 1946 memoir of convoy and corvette operations in the Battle of the Atlantic. The other looks at the US approach the neutralisation of the Japanese bastion of Truk in the Pacific during the Second World War.

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Book Reviews, Convoy Operations, Merchant Navy, Naval History, Russia, Second World War
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Latest Book Review, 4 August

04 Aug 23

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers the official Staff History of the Arctic Convoys with an added introduction by G H Bennett and foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Simon Lister.

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Fire & Ice: Arctic Convoys 1941-1945

04 Aug 23

With an Introduction by  G.H BENNETT (Britannia Museum Trust Press – £25) ISBN 978 1 83801 076 8 500 pages […]

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Book Reviews, People, Second World War
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Latest Book Review, 25 July

25 Jul 23

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It looks at the story of double agents in Colditz, and as the reviewer highlights, the various “worms, squirming and turning, wriggling and squiggling”.

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