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Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon: Driving Change in Naval Technology 1900-1918
352 pages Rear Admiral Guy Liardet David Craddock is a published historian with an Open University degree and a previous […]
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Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon: Driving Change in Naval Technology 1900-1918
352 pages Rear Admiral Guy Liardet David Craddock is a published historian with an Open University degree and a previous […]
Journal of a Young Midshipman: The Royal Navy and the Crisis in the Mediterranean 1940-41
336 pages Capt Andrew Welch The first thing that I noticed about this book was how heavy it was. The […]
Sea Wolves in Warm Waters: The U-Boat Battle in the Caribbean
290 pages Chris Davies When considering the naval theatres of the Second World War, the Caribbean is unlikely to feature […]
Devil’s Fire, Southern Cross: The Conclusion of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign October 1943-February 1944
496 pages Dr James Bosbotinis Devil’s Fire, Southern Cross completes the four-volume series by the author providing an account of […]
She Landed by Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the Real ‘Charlotte Gray’
432 pages Tearless How many WW2 female Secret Agents can you name? Odette Sansom, yes. Violette Szabo, yes. Noor Khan, […]
Continental Powers and Naval Development: Strategy Coherence, Threat Diffusion and Success at Sea
218 pages Capt Jeremy Stocker RNR You shouldn’t be put off this book by its unwieldy sub-title, but you probably […]
Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Greatest Disaster
448 pages Dr James Bosbotinis Having read several of the author’s previous books on the Pacific campaign, including the detailed […]
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II General
512 pages Dr James WE Smith, King’s College London Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War […]
Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945
656 pages Mike Farquharson-Roberts PhD (Mar Hist) This is the second part of Alan Allport’s history of the Second World […]
