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  • 'TOTAL GERMANY'
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    'TOTAL GERMANY'
    DAVID WRAGG
    The author of A Century of British Naval Aviation, 1909-2009 examines the losses and successes of the Royal Navy during World War Two.   On the declaration of war in 1939, the British Admiralty signaled all warships and naval bases “Total Germany, Total Germany.”   It was fortunate that of Germany’s three armed services, the Kriegsmarine under Grosseradmiral Erich Raeder was th...

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  • IN PURSUIT OF THE ESSEX
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    IN PURSUIT OF THE ESSEX
    BEN HUGHES
    On 26 October 1812, during the war between Britain and the United States, the frigate USS Essex set sail on the most remarkable voyage in the early history of the US navy. After rounding Cape Horn, she proceeded to systematically destroy the British South Seas whaling fleet. When news reached the Royal Navys South American station at Rio de Janeiro, HMS Phoebe was sent off in p...

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  • 13 SHARKS
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    13 SHARKS
    JOHN D. GRAINGER
    John D Grainger charts the careers of the thirteen vessels that have served the Royal Navy under the name HMS Shark. Despite the ferocious name, they have all been relatively small vessels including one brigantine, five sloops, one Sixth Rate, a gunvessel, four destroyers and a submarine. Collectively they therefore give a good representation of the various roles of these types...

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  • U-BOATS BEYOND BISCAY
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    U-BOATS BEYOND BISCAY
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    On the outbreak of war in 1939 Admiral Donitzs U-boat flotillas consisted of some thirty U-boats fully operational, with only six to eight at sea at any one time. Their activities were restricted mainly to the North Sea and British coastal waters. When France fell in the summer of 1940, the ports in the Bay of Biscay gave direct access to the Atlantic, and the ability to extend...

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  • TAMING THE ATLANTIC
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    TAMING THE ATLANTIC
    DAG PIKE
    The Atlantic Ocean has been and remains an often deadly challenge to mankind. This delightful and informative book chronicles the history of attempt to cross its hostile surface from the early days of sail to the most recent record breaking attempts in small ultra-fast craft. In between there have been fascinating sagas connected to pioneering discovery, the slave trade, mass e...

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  • MR MIDSHIPMAN VC
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    MR MIDSHIPMAN VC
    QUENTIN FALK
    Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry.At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nations premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In so doing he was badly wounded.Accident-prone, he survived falling into a bog as a child; he w...

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  • THE HISTORY OF NAVIGATION
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    THE HISTORY OF NAVIGATION
    DAG PIKE
    Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus.The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they had to rely on the sun and stars for direction. From this pioneers...

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  • SAILORS BEHIND THE MEDALS
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    SAILORS BEHIND THE MEDALS
    CHRIS BILHAM
    Twenty-three riveting true stories of the heroic acts that earned WWII Royal Navy sailors their awards for gallantry.Includes photos.   The story of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is an epic, consisting of both dramatic battles such as the River Plate and Matapan, and drawn-out campaigns such as the escort of convoys to Malta and northern Russia. Sailors Behind the Meda...

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  • A CENTURY OF NAVAL AVIATION, 1909–2009
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    A CENTURY OF NAVAL AVIATION, 1909–2009
    DAVID WRAGG
    Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding color to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical take-off, and in operations, including the sinking of the Konigsberg and the daring attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto, convoy prot...

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  • HMS FEARLESS
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    HMS FEARLESS
    EWEN SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR
    The Seventh ship to bear the name, the Assault Ship and Commando Carrier HMS Fearless was first commissioned in 1965. Over the next 37 years she was seldom far from the actions in which British forces were engaged world-wide, be they in Aden, Malaysia and Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Cold War (Norway), South Rhodesia, Falklands, the Gulf, Afghanistan and so on. Thousands of sa...

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  • IN THE SHADOW OF NELSON
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    IN THE SHADOW OF NELSON
    DENIS ORDE
    Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer. The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments greatly differed. Collingwood was reserved, austere and shy but utterly competent whi...

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  • BATTLE ON THE SEVEN SEAS
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    BATTLE ON THE SEVEN SEAS
    GARY STAFF
    “This concise and well-written book will serve as a valuable library addition for anyone interested in the naval activities of the Great War.” —Sea Classics The cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. ...

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  • THE BATTLE-CRUISER HMS RENOWN, 1916–48
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    THE BATTLE-CRUISER HMS RENOWN, 1916–48
    PETER C. SMITH
    “A successful book, giving a picture of life on a major warship, as well as a different view of some of the main naval actions of the Second World War.” —HistoryOfWar.org  This is the story of the Royal Navy battle-cruiser HMS Renown, a famous ship with a long and distinguished operational career. Originally built for the First World War she subsequently served in the post-war ...

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  • THE BATTLE OF QUIBERON BAY, 1759
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    THE BATTLE OF QUIBERON BAY, 1759
    NICHOLAS TRACY
    This authoritative history chronicles the Royal Navy’s decisive yet little-known victory over the French during the Seven Years’ War. In the mid-18th century, with virtually no regular troops at home, Britain was especially vulnerable to the immanent threat of French invasion. In a cunning naval offensive, the British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke intercepted French ships on...

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  • HITLER'S ARMADA
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    HITLER'S ARMADA
    GEOFF HEWITT
    “Any historian or general lover of history in Hitler, or the importance of the Germany Navy in WWII, will find this book immensely informative.” —Nautical Research Journal   Hitler's Armada examines the aborted German invasion of 1940 in a fresh and original manner by looking past the myths and legends which have subsequently surrounded it, in order to arrive at significant new...

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  • COCKLESHELL COMMANDO
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    COCKLESHELL COMMANDO
    BILL SPARKS
    One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and postwar career has never before been told in full. In this gripping book, he describes not only his part in Operation FRANKTON, the daring Gironde raid, and his escape back to Britain, but how he fought with the Greek Sacred Squadron thereafter. Operating in small groups they raided and liberate...

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  • CONVOY SC122 & HX229
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    CONVOY SC122 & HX229
    MARTIN MIDDLEBROOK
    The author of The First Day on the Somme details a naval skirmish that became a turning point for the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. Winston Churchill wrote, “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.” Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. The...

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  • ADMIRAL BYNG
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    ADMIRAL BYNG
    CHRIS WARE
    Born the son of George Byng, a favorite of the king and himself an admiral and member of the admiralty board (and later First Lord of the Admiralty), John Byng seemed destined for a shining career in the Royal Navy. He saw his first fleet action at Cape Passaro, the elder Byng's finest hour, as a Captain's Servant, aged just 14. He qualified as a lieutenant at 19 years old (alt...

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  • THE WAR ON HOSPITAL SHIPS, 1914–1918
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    THE WAR ON HOSPITAL SHIPS, 1914–1918
    STEPHEN MCGREAL
    It is often said The first casualty of war is the truth and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships, which ran the gauntlet of mined waters and gambled on the humanity of the U-Boat c...

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  • THE PACIFIC NAVAL WAR 1941–1945
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    THE PACIFIC NAVAL WAR 1941–1945
    DAVID WRAGG
    This vividly detailed WWII history chronicles the bitter conflict at sea between Allied and Japanese naval forces. The Pacific War was primarily fought at sea. Naval power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards. It also enabled the Allies to strike back and even take the war to Japan itself. The tide turned very quic...

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  • THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND
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    THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND
    GEOFFREY BENNETT
    The Battle of Jutland: At the end of May 1916, a chance encounter with Admiral Hipper's battlecruisers has enabled Beatty to lead the German Battle Fleet into the jaws of Jellicoe's greatly superior force, but darkness had allowed Admiral Scheer to extricate his ships from a potentially disastrous situation. Though inconclusive, at the Battle of Jutland the German Fleet suffere...

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  • THE OHIO AND MALTA
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    THE OHIO AND MALTA
    MICHAEL PEARSON
    This WWII naval history recounts one of the most iconic actions of Allied courage under fire as the embattled SS Ohio completes its mission to Malta. The fortified island of Malta was the lynchpin of the Allied campaign in the Mediterranean and North African theaters. It was the vital base from which to attack Axis convoys supplying Rommel's Panzer Army in Libya. The difficulti...

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  • PIRATE KILLERS
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    PIRATE KILLERS
    GRAHAM A. THOMAS
    One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had do...

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  • MIDGET SUBMARINE COMMANDER
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    MIDGET SUBMARINE COMMANDER
    PAUL WATKINS
    Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her fortified mooring in a Norwegian fjord. Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and traveled over 1000 miles, negotiating minefields and antisubmarine nets to accurately pla...

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  • THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED
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    THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED
    BRYAN PERRETT
    "At the start of World War One the Imperial German Navy had a large number of surface warships deployed around the world. These posed a considerable threat to British mercantile interests, particularly the import of food and fuel supplies. Their elimination was a matter of urgency. This book covers the major actions and includes the following: The escape of the Goeben and Bresl...

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  • NELSON'S TRAFALGAR CAPTAINS AND THEIR BATTLES
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    NELSON'S TRAFALGAR CAPTAINS AND THEIR BATTLES
    T. A. HEATHCOTE
    This is a biographical dictionary of the two flag officers and captains of 27 battleships, four frigates and two minor combatant vessels that were present under Nelson's command at the historic battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Each officer's family background and naval career will be covered and his and his ship's role in the Battle analyzed. In addition there will be a ge...

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  • THE U-BOAT WAR
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    THE U-BOAT WAR
    IAN BAXTER
    2.20PM Directly in front of us I sighted four funnels and the masts of a passenger steamer at right angles to our course coming from the SW and going towards Galley Head. 3:10 PM Torpedo shot at a distance of 700 meters below the surface - from the log of the German submarine U–20. The explosion that followed changed history as the date of the ship's log was may 7, 1915, the st...

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  • TIRPITZ
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    TIRPITZ
    JONATHAN SUTHERLAND / DIANE CANWELL
    This WWII military history presents stunning, never-before-published photographs from life aboard the infamous German Battleship Tirpitz. The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a Tirpitz crewmember. It is a little-known fact that before the start of World War Two, the ship went on a shakedown voyage into the Atlantic, traveling north into A...

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  • SECOND U-BOAT FLOTILLA
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    SECOND U-BOAT FLOTILLA
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    Fritz-Julius Lemp's tragic sinking of the Athenia in a Second U-Boat Flotilla boat opened Germany's U-boat war against England. The following six years of bitter combat found the flotilla at the forefront of distant operations. Leading the attack, Legendary commanders such as Albrecht Achilles, Werner Hartenstein and Reinhard Hardegen littered the Atlantic and Indian Oceans wit...

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  • NAVAL WARFARE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 1939–1945
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    NAVAL WARFARE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, 1939–1945
    PETER C. SMITH
    From the year 1066 the English Channel has provided Great Britain with a natural defensive barrier, but never more than in the early days of World War Two. This book relates how the Royal Navy defended that vital seaway throughout the war. From the early days of the Dover Patrols, through the traumas of the Dunkirk evacuation, the battles of the Channel convoys; the war against...

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