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The Sinking of the Belgrano
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Arthur L. Gavshon |
“The SINKING Of The BELGRANO” By Desmond Rice and Arthur Gavshon. Launched March 12, 1938 the USS Phoenix (CL-46) was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Brooklyn-class cruiser managed to get un… |
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My Sea Lady
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Graeme Ogden |
A remarkable wartime memoir, unusually personal and frank, chronicling the bleak and arduous journeys onboard an anti-submarine trawler in the Arctic ocean during World War II
Graeme Ogden's memoi… |
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WW1 at Sea
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Victoria Carolan |
Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another … |
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The Secret Channel
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Mike Williams |
This thrilling fictional account is based on true events. Mike Williams, a surviving member of the SBO, has created characters that live on the page and brilliantly evoke the dangerous waters and des… |
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The Flowing Tide
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Alan Savage |
With France having fallen, by 1941 the Germans control every French port, turning the English Channel into a battleground where vast numbers of German Schnell-boats frequently clash horns with the ha… |
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Bismarck
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Niklas Zetterling |
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Citizen sailors
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Glyn Prysor |
From the Battle of Dunkirk to the sinking of the Bismark and Scharnhorst, "Citizen Sailors" is the first definitive history of the Royal Navy in WWII. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and … |
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Beyond the Call of Duty
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Brian James Crabb |
BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
This book gives a critical account of every shipping disaster during the Second World War which involved the loss of British Commonwealth mercantile and service women. Just… |
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Girl On The Orlop Deck
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Beryl Kingston |
She will find her husband, even if it means enlisting…
Portsmouth, 1803. The British Navy headed by Lord Admiral Nelson himself are in pursuit of Johnny Frenchman.
For months, there have been r… |
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The Dardanelles disaster
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Dan Van der Vat |
A naval historian describes the British Navy's disastrous attempt to get to Constantinople through the Dardanelles, and analyzes Winston Churchill's response to the obstacles faced during the operati… |
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Zanzibar and the loss of H.M.S. Pegasus
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Kevin Patience |
An illustrated story of the British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Pegasus and its loss at Zanzibar in September 1914 after being shelled by the German cruiser Konigsberg. |
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Exploring the Bismarck
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Robert D. Ballard |
Recreates the sea battle that sank the German battleship Bismarck in World War II and recounts how the shipwreck was discovered in 1989. |
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Dunkirk
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Robert Jackson |
By late May 1940 the German Army had raced across Northern France cutting the Allied armies in two. The British Expeditionary Force ,and thousands of French and Belgian soldiers, found themselves squ… |
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Half a Man
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Tor Freeman,Michael Morpurgo,Gemma O'Callaghan |
From a young age, Michael was both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa's ship was torpedoed during the Second World War, leaving him with terrible burns. Every time he came to stay, … |
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Sink the Bismarck!
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C. S. Forester |
In 1941, Hitler’s deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one might blow. How the Royal … |
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The sunken gold
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Joseph A. Williams |
On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to f… |
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Into the jaws of death
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Robert Lyman |
"It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Secon… |
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On and off the flight deck
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Henry Adlam |
"We had seen enough now to know that we would be lucky, either one of us, to see the end of the war and the future was always a taboo subject with any of us."Hank Adlam began his naval flying career … |
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From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir
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George E. Melton |
"This book concerns itself with one of the most unlikely relationships in the two decades before World War II: the alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet. By the mid 1930s, both fleets had o… |
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Champagne navy
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Nolan, Brian. |
Champagne Navy is the story of men driven by survival and patriotism. The Canadians in the Royal Navy's Coastal Force helped defend the free world from Nazi tyranny and taught the rest of the world h… |
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