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India’s Elephant Navy and China’s Dragon Navy @ 2025: Contesting to Have a Say in the Indo-Pacific’s ‘Pas de Deux-Churn’
280 pages Dr James Bosbotinis The subject of this book immediately appealed to this reviewer, as the major navies of […]
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India’s Elephant Navy and China’s Dragon Navy @ 2025: Contesting to Have a Say in the Indo-Pacific’s ‘Pas de Deux-Churn’
280 pages Dr James Bosbotinis The subject of this book immediately appealed to this reviewer, as the major navies of […]
“Supposed Killed or Drowned By Enemy Action at Sea”: Scottish Merchant Navy Women Who Died as a Result of Enemy Action in the First and Second World Wars
79 pages Lt Cdr Helen Taylor Have you ever visited a war memorial, reading the names of those lost in […]
The United States Navy 1914-18
48 pages Andy Field ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ is the old adage, but I often do. This […]
One Submarine’s Secret War Against the Axis: HMS Triumph, SOE and MI9 in the Mediterranean, 1941
224 pages Dr Andrew Boyd This book describes the final year in the life of HM Submarine Triumph following her […]
On Board the USS Boise in World War II: The Battles and Secret Missions of CL-47
235 pages Kevin Billings Ian S. Bertram’s On Board the USS Boise in World War II: The Battles and Secret […]
Three Sons for the Kaiser: A German Family’s Sacrifice in the First World War
296 pages Mike Farquharson-Roberts PhD (Mar Hist) “Their sons, they gave, their immortality”[1] What is widely regarded as the best […]
Sinai 1916-17: The Fight for the Suez Canal
96 pages Mike Farquharson-Roberts PhD (Mar Hist) National perspectives of the First World War can be very different. Most British […]
Fire in the Hole! The Untold Story of My Traumatic Life and Explosive Success
320 pages Alice Watts If you don’t understand Bob Parsons’s childhood and Vietnam experience, you can’t understand him. In Fire […]
Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-1945
128 pages Dr James Bosbotinis Originally published in Italy in 2021 and translated into English by the Italian naval historians […]
