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  • SCRATCH ONE FLATTOP
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    SCRATCH ONE FLATTOP
    ROBERT C. STERN
    A study of the historic World War II naval battle, the first involving aircraft carriers and first in which neither warship was in sight of the other. By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the America...

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  • THE US NAVY AND THE WAR IN EUROPE
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    THE US NAVY AND THE WAR IN EUROPE
    ROBERT C. STERN
    The author of Big Gun Battles "shows how the US Navy was slowly but surely drawn into WW2 in the Atlantic theatre of operations . . . well researched" (Warships Magazine). Although the defeat of Japan was the US Navy's greatest contribution to the Second World War, it also played a significant role in the battle against Hitler. Even before Germany declared war in 1941, US naval...

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  • THE MODERN CRUISER
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    THE MODERN CRUISER
    ROBERT C. STERN
    "An entertaining and informative review of the evolution of one of the most important classes of warship, from the technology of WWII into the missile age." —Firetrench Cruisers probably vary more in their characteristics than any other warship type and have certainly been subject to the most convoluted development. There was always a basic tension between quantity and quality,...

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  • BIG GUN BATTLES
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    BIG GUN BATTLES
    ROBERT C. STERN
    This naval history of WWII explores the advancing technology and tactics of battleships through a fascinating survey of ship-to-ship duels. While many naval battles of the Second World War were decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recou...

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  • BIG GUN BATTLES: WARSHIP DUELS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    BIG GUN BATTLES: WARSHIP DUELS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    ROBERT C. STERN
    The outcome of much of the maritime warfare in the Second World War was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making relatively recent warship types, the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters naval conflict. Yet despite this, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. This book recoun...

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  • DESTROYER BATTLES: EPICS OF NAVAL CLOSE COMBAT
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    DESTROYER BATTLES: EPICS OF NAVAL CLOSE COMBAT
    ROBERT C. STERN
    Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many hard-fought battles, using both torpedoes and...

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  • BIG GUN BATTLES
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    BIG GUN BATTLES
    ROBERT C. STERN
    This naval history of WWII explores the advancing technology and tactics of battleships through a fascinating survey of ship-to-ship duels. While many naval battles of the Second World War were decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recou...

    $329.00

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