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  • DESTROYERS, GREYHOUNDS OF THE FLEET
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    DESTROYERS, GREYHOUNDS OF THE FLEET
    PETER SAXTON
    A remarkable read, detailed, hour-to-hour and 'immediate' account of action, a personal but modest story, and the author and shipmates of all ranks come to life. There are excellent accounts of training, action-stations, gunnery, tactics ad strategy, officer- and ratings- relationships, and leadership, and all told in objective and authentic, and readable language. This is no '...

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  • SUNK BY A U-BOAT, ATTACKED BY KAMIKAZES
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    SUNK BY A U-BOAT, ATTACKED BY KAMIKAZES
    JOHN MARSDEN
    “… well worth reading and the reader gains some insight into the social life of crewmen at sea and on land.” -National Maritime Historical Society Sunk by a U-boat, Attacked by Kamikazes tells the story of one man’s experiences during the years 1939 to 1947. Aged sixteen when the war broke out, Joseph Marsden worked casual shiftwork on the Liverpool docks. Lucky to survive an a...

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  • THE SILENT SERVICE’S FIRST HERO
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    THE SILENT SERVICE’S FIRST HERO
    RYAN C WALKER
    “…concentrates on the social fabric of the interwar era, including submarine service and Navy life in general, civilian attitudes, and speculations about Breault's reaction to receiving the medal.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Celebrating 100 years since the first submariner received the Congressional Medal of Honor, dive into pre-World War II submarine history through...

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  • OPERATION TITLE
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    OPERATION TITLE
    GLYN L EVANS
    “The seven archival citations and excerpts from the National Archives, Kew, are most useful and to be applauded.” -National Maritime Historical Society Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to Tirpitz as ‘The Beast,’ and on 25th January 1942 he wrote, ‘The destruction or even the crippling of this ship is the greatest event at this present time. No other target is comparabl...

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  • THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM FOR SLAVES ESCAPING IN BRITISH SHIPS
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    THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM FOR SLAVES ESCAPING IN BRITISH SHIPS
    THEODORE CORBETT
    “A strength of the book is Corbett’s use of short biographic examples of free Blacks and abolitionists in each of the chapters to illustrate the chapter’s point. Finding more of these stories will serve to expand our understanding of the lived experiences of the people who escaped slavery during the American Revolution and their subsequent lives.” –The Northern Mariner Although...

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  • FORMIDABLE
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    FORMIDABLE
    TERRY CROWDY
    “It's all well-written and well-illustrated with 208 black and white photos and two black and white maps.” — Historical Miniatures Gaming Society HMS Formidable was a British aircraft carrier during the Second World War. One of four Illustrious-class carriers, Formidable was an armored carrier, able to withstand air attacks, guarding its precious aircraft hangar with an armor-p...

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  • NAVAL BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    NAVAL BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    LEO MARRIOTT
    The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott’s highly illustrated two-volume account of the struggle sets naval actions in the wider strategic context as well as giving ...

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  • ONE SUBMARINE'S SECRET WAR AGAINST THE AXIS
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    ONE SUBMARINE'S SECRET WAR AGAINST THE AXIS
    GAV DON
    This is the story of a unique submarine and the people who sailed in her in the Mediterranean over the course of 1941. Triumph arrived in theatre in January 1941 just as 50,000 Allied troops were being deployed to Greece to deter a German invasion. Within days of arriving this army found 200,000 heavily-armed Germans thundering towards it. A helter-skelter retreat ensued. Withi...

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  • UNSUNG HERO OF THE FALKLANDS WAR
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    UNSUNG HERO OF THE FALKLANDS WAR
    ANTHONY CUMMING
    The contribution of Commodore Michael Clapp has been overlooked when compared with the other senior Falklands commanders and the time is ripe to redress the balance. Despite commanding the Amphibious Task Group and being responsible for Operation Sutton the successful San Carlos landing, Clapp was overlooked for promotion instead received several snubs including not being allow...

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  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS 1882-1914
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    THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS 1882-1914
    JOSEPH MORETZ
    The projecting of military force to a distant shore has come to be seen as a uniquely British way of waging war. To be sure, many of these operations would now be classed as administrative landings with battle, if occurring at all, only following sometimes afterward. Others, of course, merit the label of opposed landings. To contemporaries of the period covered by this study, t...

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  • SEA FISHING DISASTERS
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    SEA FISHING DISASTERS
    CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON
    The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster saw almost two hundred men lose their lives when their small, wooden fishing boats were caught in near-hurricane force winds off the coast of Scotland in 1881. The Japanese fishing training vessel the Ehime Maru was quietly making its way across the Pacific Ocean when it was struck from beneath by a US Navy nuclear submarine and sank within minutes...

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  • GALE FORCE 10: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ADMIRAL BEAUFORT
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    GALE FORCE 10: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ADMIRAL BEAUFORT
    NICHOLAS COURTNEY
    Few who hear the shipping forecast, with its familiar sequence of numbers denoting the expected force of the wind, know what lies behind the man who gave the world the Beaufort Scale, a system that has never been bettered or replaced, but Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort’s enduring contribution to maritime science is just one part of his remarkable legacy. In this richly detailed b...

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  • EMPIRE JAVELIN, D-DAY ASSAULT SHIP
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    EMPIRE JAVELIN, D-DAY ASSAULT SHIP
    PHILIP KAY-BUJAK
    Empire Javelin an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She carried 5 companies of 1st Battalion 116th Regiment including the famous Bedford Boys over the Channel to France where the majority were killed that morning. Philip Bujak has traced the journeys of that fateful morning of many of the men on board the Empir...

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  • THE RESCUE SHIPS AND THE CONVOYS
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    THE RESCUE SHIPS AND THE CONVOYS
    B.B. SCHOFIELD / VICTORIA SCHOFIELD
    The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoy’s position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross to...

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