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Immediate Response
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Mark Hammond |
2006 in Helmand saw British forces engaged in the most ferocious fighting since the Korean War. For much of the time they were hanging on by their fingertips, holed up in remote platoon houses, outnu… |
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Joint Force Harrier
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James Barrington |
Days after arriving in Kandahar, the Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron were in the thick of fierce fighting. Armed with rockets and bombs, the pilots were flying crucial danger-close attack missions… |
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Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy
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Maurice Cocker |
160 p. : 25 cm |
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Cross - Sections Man of War (Stephen Biesty's Cross-sections)
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Richard Platt |
Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting. |
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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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Nelson's navy in fiction and film
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Sue Parrill |
"This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and 25 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period and the extent to… |
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War in a Stringbag
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Charles Lamb |
Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft… |
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The Submariners
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John Winton |
xiv,316p., [16]p. of plates : 24cm |
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Bombast and broadsides
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Robin F. A. Fabel |
"Through research in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Kew, London, Philadelphia, and Washington in largely unpublished manuscripts, together with the use of secondary sources, the author has been able to present … |
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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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