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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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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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Bismarck
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Niklas Zetterling |
320 pages : 24 cm |
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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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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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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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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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HMS Ulysses ; Force Ten from Navarone ; When eight bells toll
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Alistair MacLean |
HMS Ulysses: Dramatizes the week-long disintegration of a British light cruiser and its overworked crew on a mission to Murmansk in Arctic Russia during World War II.
Force Ten from Navarone: The he… |
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The Royal Naval Museum book of the Battle of the Atlantic
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Chris Howard Bailey |
A collection of oral testomonies and personal photographs from the former Flower Class corvette seamen, which tell the story of the ships that fought against the German navy during the Second World W… |
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Twelve Seconds to Live
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Douglas Reeman |
The dramatic new novel from the bestselling author of For Valour.The mine is an impartial killer, and a lethal challenge to any volunteer in the Special Countermeasures of the Royal Navy. They are br… |
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If the gods are good
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Gerald Duskin |
ix, 270 p. : 21 cm |
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HMS Gloucester
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Ken Otter |
On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the … |
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The Sinking of the Scharnhorst
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Fritz Otto Busch |
On Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life. The luck of the Scharnhorst had become a legen… |
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Admirals
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Lee Bienkowski |
"In this collection of short biographical essays Lee Bienkowski assesses each officer's career, describing the factors that influenced the subject's character and contributed to his success. While ea… |
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