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  • AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL NAVY
    DAVID HOBBS
    This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft together with many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential technological impact on carrier...

    $549.99

  • CONFIDENCE FOR LEADERSHIP
    DESMOND BARRETT / DAVID M. CHURCH / PAUL T. HOBBS
    Many of us sense a lack of confidence when it comes to leading a group of people to a different level of thinking that involves change. How will we get there? How can we entice followers to come along as we lead? For without followers, we cannot be leaders. Intellectual fatigue, a lack of physical vitality, and drained emotions make it nearly impossible to foster healthy change...

    $302.00

  • CONFIDENCE FOR LEADERSHIP
    DESMOND BARRETT / DAVID M. CHURCH / PAUL T. HOBBS
    Many of us sense a lack of confidence when it comes to leading a group of people to a different level of thinking that involves change. How will we get there? How can we entice followers to come along as we lead? For without followers, we cannot be leaders. Intellectual fatigue, a lack of physical vitality, and drained emotions make it nearly impossible to foster healthy change...

    $302.00

  • WARSHIPS OF THE GREAT WAR ERA
    DAVID HOBBS
    The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Trea...

    $329.00

  • A CENTURY OF CARRIER AVIATION
    DAVID HOBBS
    A naval history of the development and use of aircraft carriers in military operations and in times of war. It has been more than a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning flying at sea made unique demands on men and machines. As warplanes grew larger, faster and heavier, air operations from ships were onl...

    $329.00

  • THE BRITISH CARRIER STRIKE FLEET AFTER 1945
    DAVID HOBBS
    “A comprehensive study of the bittersweet post WWII history of British naval aviation . . . will become a standard reference for its subject.”—Firetrench   In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy’s history was centered on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force; its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its fi...

    $229.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY'S AIR SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR
    DAVID HOBBS
    In a few short years after 1914 the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, but also pioneering most of the techniques and tactics that made naval air power a reality. By 1918 the RN was so far ahead of other navies that a US Navy observer sent to study the British use of aircraft at sea concluded that any dis...

    $329.00

  • AIRCRAFT CARRIER VICTORIOUS
    DAVID HOBBS
    The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were ...

    $279.00

  • THE FLEET AIR ARM AND THE WAR IN EUROPE, 1939–1945
    DAVID HOBBS
    A comprehensive history of the Royal Navy’s naval aviation component’s campaigns during World War II. For the first time, this book tells the story of how naval air operations evolved into a vital element of the Royal Navy’s ability to fight a three-dimensional war against both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. An integral part of RN, the Fleet Air Arm was not a large organizatio...

    $299.00

  • BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
    DAVID HOBBS
    “This superb book . . . will undoubtedly become the definitive volume on British Aircraft carriers and naval aviation . . . magnificent.”—Marine News   This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Nav...

    $330.00

  • WARSHIPS OF THE GREAT WAR ERA
    DAVID HOBBS
    The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Trea...

    $329.00

  • THE DAWN OF CARRIER STRIKE
    DAVID HOBBS
    A biography of a British pilot set against the backdrop of the Royal Navy’s fight to regain control of its aviation after the First World War.   The establishment of the RAF came at a cost—and it was the Royal Navy that paid the price. In 1918 it had been pre-eminent in the technology and tactics of employing aircraft at sea, but once it lost control of its own air power, it st...

    $229.00

  • TARANTO
    DAVID HOBBS
    This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war in June 1940. The Royal Navy found itself facing a larger and better-equipped Italian surface fleet, large Italian and German air forces equipped with modern aircraft and both Italian and German submarines. Its own aircraft were a cri...

    $229.00

  • BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
    DAVID HOBBS
    " This superb book . . . will undoubtedly become the definitive volume on British Aircraft carriers and naval aviation . . . magnificent."—Marine News   This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Na...

    $618.00

  • THE BRITISH PACIFIC FLEET
    DAVID HOBBS
    "Magnificent and important . . . should be on the shelves of anyone with a genuine interest in the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War." —Military History Monthly In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force...

    $164.00

  • MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
    HUGH COOMBS / ELLIS JENKINS / DAVID HOBBS
    This book adopts a new and accessible approach to helping readers understand how management accounting contributes to decisions in a variety of organisational contexts. It sets out clear explanations of practical management accounting techniques in the context of the application of these techniques to decisions. It recognizes practice through case studies and summarises publish...

    $1,432.57