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Guide to the manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum
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National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
Volume one describes 300 collections of personal papers held by the Museum.
Volume two describes the business records, public records and artificial collections held by the Museum. Contains a cumula… |
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Operation Mincemeat
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Ben Macintyre |
Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" (New York Times), "wildly improbable but entirely true" (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" (… |
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Prisoner of the rising sun
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Stanley Wort |
"I was told that because a regular signalman had failed to return from leave, and because mine was the last name alpabetically on the list of new boys, I was being sent in his place."When the author … |
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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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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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The Royal Navy & the siege of Bilbao
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Cable, James |
xii, 219 pages : 23 cm |
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Empire of the seas
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Brian Lavery |
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become reality - that the nation's … |
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Nelson's battles
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Nicholas Tracy |
'Nelson's Battles' looks at the whole subject of naval warfare, the equipment, the men, the tactics and strategies, but also provides much biographical information on Nelson himself. |
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Men of war
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David Crane |
"Through the lives of three outstanding naval officers - each considered the most brilliant commander of his generation - David Crane offers a unique portrait of the Royal Navy at a time when it held… |
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Tides of History
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Michael S. Reidy |
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans' outer rim. The domi… |
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Shipmates
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Chris Terrill |
xxiv, 293 pages : 26 cm |
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