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CONWAY’S IN WHICH THEY SERVED The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War
Product Code: 12503

This book looks at the social background of naval recruits, the training methods, the personal experiences of those involved (including the actor Alec Guinness) and what they had to learn to become an officer of the watch on the bridge of a warship, or even the captain of a landing craft or friga...

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CONWAY’S CHARTS OF WAR The Maps and Charts That Have Informed and Illustrated War at Sea
Product Code: 12502

Lieutenant Commander John Blake has drawn on his extensive knowledge of some of the most impressive collections in the world, such as the Hydrographic Office, The Admiralty Library Manuscript Collection, The National Maritime Museum and The Royal Geographical Society in the UK, and the Library of...

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CONWAY’S BATTLESHIPS The Definitive Visual `reference to the World’s all Big- Gun Ships
Product Code: 12501

Fully updated and presented in colour throughout, this Conway Classic is a comprehensive study of the world's capital ships from the emergence of Dreadnought in 1906 to the decommissioning of the last two of the US Iowa class - New Jersey and Winsconsin.

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JACK TAR The extraordinary lives of ordinary seamen in Nelson’s Navy
Product Code: 12495

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CHATHAM’S WEAPONS OF DESPERATION German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of WW2
Product Code: 12473

As the Third Reich headed for its inevitable destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage. Inspired by Italian, and later British successes with human torpedoes and X...

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DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF NAVAL OBITUARIES
Product Code: 8171

This book is the companion to two earlier volumes celebrating the soldiers and airmen.It contains over one hundred biographies which were published in The Daily Telegraph during the past eighteen years, but have never before appeared in book form.Within these pages appear men of the Navy, Marines...

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CHATHAM’S THE WORLD’S MERCHANT FLEETS 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships
Product Code: 10073

At the outbreak of war in 1939 over 6,000 ships, which traded across the world’s oceans, became the quarry in the global conflict which permeated the operations of every shipping line on every continent. This new book gives the details of all the ocean-going ships which were extant in 1939 and al...

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MEN OF THE MARY ROSE Raising the Dead
Product Code: 12463

This is the first book to deal with the men who made up the crew of the Mary Rose. It provides an exciting glimpse of Tudor life and the Tudor navy, relating archaeological findings to existing documentary evidence.

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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF DOCKS & HARBOURS
Product Code: 12462

This book is a History of port development in the UK, with examples of the main structures drawn from ports all around the coast.

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CHATHAM’S THE U-BOAT CENTURY: German Submarine Warfare 1906-2006
Product Code: 10082

This is not a dry technical book but a work that looks behind the scenes at the men who built the boats and those who fought in them.While the boats themselves are described a broader picture is painted of life in the U-boat arm.Weapon systems, operational areas, bases, builders and the organisat...

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