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  • BRITISH COASTAL FORCES
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    BRITISH COASTAL FORCES
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    The Royal Navy invented the fast motor torpedo boat during the First World War, and used it and other small coastal craft to great effect during the Second. This book tells the dramatic story of British coastal forces, both offensive and defensive, in both World Wars and beyond. In the Second World War, British coastal forces fought a desperate battle to control the narrow seas...

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  • BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
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    BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN / DAVID R HIGGINS
    This is a companion volume to Friedman’ s highly successful _British Battleship 1906–1946_ and completes his study of the Royal Navy’s capital ships. Beginning with the earliest installation of steam machinery in ships of the line, the book traces the technological revolution that saw the introduction of iron hulls, armour plate, shell-firing guns and the eventual abandonment o...

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  • THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1906-1946
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    THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1906-1946
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    The British battleship is one of the most intensely studied of all naval topics, but it is also among the most popular. Norman Friedman is one of the most highly regarded of all naval writers, with an avid following for his work. Therefore, a new book on British battleships by Friedman is a major event, and has been eagerly awaited ever since knowledge of the project began to c...

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  • FIGHTING THE GREAT WAR AT SEA
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    FIGHTING THE GREAT WAR AT SEA
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for Naval and Maritime Science and Technology. "A compelling and convincing historical analysis of World War I." —Navy News   While the overriding image of the First World War is of the bloody stalemate on the western front, the overall shape of the war arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about access to worldwi...

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  • BRITISH DESTROYERS & FRIGATES
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    BRITISH DESTROYERS & FRIGATES
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    "A comprehensive survey of the design history and development of the Royal Navy's greyhounds of the sea."— WARSHIPS Magazine   Since World War II, the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically different "Tribal" class destroyers of 1936. It deals with the development of all the modern destroyer classes th...

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  • NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR ONE
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    NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR ONE
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    An in-depth reference to the naval weapons used by Britain, Germany, the US, and the other combatants in the Great War, with photos: "Superb…invaluable."— History of War   Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater weapons, the mine and torpedo, as well as the first signs of the future potency of air powe...

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  • BRITISH NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR TWO, VOLUME I
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    BRITISH NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR TWO, VOLUME I
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    “For anyone wishing to super-detail any British destroyer of this era, this book looks to be a real must-have.” —Nautical Research Guild's Model Ship World    John Lambert was a renowned naval draftsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he’d produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of...

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  • BRITISH SUBMARINES IN TWO WORLD WARS
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    BRITISH SUBMARINES IN TWO WORLD WARS
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    An “indispensable” guide to the Royal Navy’s submarines through 1945, with numerous photos and original plans (The Naval Review).   The Royal Navy didn’t invent the submarine—but in 1914, Britain had the largest submarine fleet in the world, and at the end of World War I it had some of the largest and most unusual of all submarines—whose origins and designs are all detailed in ...

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  • BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE COLD WAR ERA
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    BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE COLD WAR ERA
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    The Royal Navy’s greatest contribution to the Allied success in World War II was undoubtedly the defeat of the U-boat menace in the North Atlantic, a victory on which all other European campaigns depended. The underwater threat was the most serious naval challenge of the war so it was not surprising that captured German submarine technology became the focus of attention for the...

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  • FIGHTERS OVER THE FLEET
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    FIGHTERS OVER THE FLEET
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s. This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Nav...

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  • BRITISH CRUISERS
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    BRITISH CRUISERS
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    “An extraordinarily detailed account of the development of Royal Navy cruisers . . . a towering work” from the author of Fighting the Great War at Sea (Warship 2012).   For most of the twentieth century, Britain possessed both the world’s largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a part...

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  • NAVAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS & GUNNERY
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    NAVAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS & GUNNERY
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    A winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature gives "an excellent overview of the problems involved in shooting at airplanes from ships." ( Coast Defense Journal).   This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery—it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chr...

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  • NAVAL FIREPOWER
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    NAVAL FIREPOWER
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    An in-depth history of naval battleship firepower from before World War I to the end of World War II, by America's leading naval analyst. For more than half a century, the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding...

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  • BRITISH CRUISERS
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    BRITISH CRUISERS
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    "An extraordinarily detailed account of the development of Royal Navy cruisers . . . a towering work" from the author of Fighting the Great War at Sea ( Warship 2012).   For most of the twentieth century, Britain possessed both the world's largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a par...

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  • BRITISH DESTROYERS
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    BRITISH DESTROYERS
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    A history of the early days of Royal Navy destroyers, and how they evolved to meet new military threats.   In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest, exponents ...

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  • BRITISH CRUISERS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
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    BRITISH CRUISERS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    “This magnificent book reinforces Norman Friedman's unparalleled reputation as a peerless author of maritime topics.”—Australian Naval Institute   Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define—but for the sake of this book, historian Norman Friedman takes as a starting point Iris and Mercury of 18...

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