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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 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 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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Clash of Fleets
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Vincent P. O'Hara,Leonard R. Heinz |
ix, 372 pages : 25 cm |
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Dazzle ships
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Chris Barton |
This dazzling nonfiction picture book explores art, desperation, and one man's incredible idea for saving ships from German torpedoes in World War I. Dazzle camouflage transformed ordinary British an… |
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Churchill and the admirals
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Stephen Wentworth Roskill |
Includes material on the period 1911-1939. |
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Gentlemen of war
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Dan van der Vat |
Details the adventures of the World War I German light cruiser the S.M.S. Emden and its captain Karl von Müller. |
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