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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Kill the Tiger Kill the Tiger Thompson, Peter,Robert Macklin xiii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : 20 cm OL21414085W
From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir 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… OL22316972W
Churchill and the admirals Churchill and the admirals Stephen Wentworth Roskill Includes material on the period 1911-1939. OL2628531W
War in a Stringbag War in a Stringbag 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… OL3670837W
HMS Gloucester HMS Gloucester 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 … OL5880206W