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Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

By: Captain Basil Hall

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Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

By: Captain Basil Hall

First published in 1931. 'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers, but makes them love him.' Times Literary Supplement Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes re-issued here have been selected for their clarity and interest, both geographical and historical. Few books give a more graphic picture of the Royal Navy a century ago and Hall's volumes are full of nautical information. Hall was also an indefatigable traveller and a keen observer who learnt Hindustani, Malay and Japanese, studied Hindu mythology, flora, fauna and geology and compiled the first ever vocabulary of the language of the Loo Choo Islands.

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304

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Routledge

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1134284799

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9781134284795

The Colonial Clippers

By: Basil Lubbock

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The Colonial Clippers

By: Basil Lubbock

Reproduction of the original: The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

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410

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752434627

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9783752434620

Hidden Weapons

By: Basil Collier

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Hidden Weapons

By: Basil Collier

In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents and derivative literature now available, and I admire the judgement that is evident throughout the book. Within the limits of treating the widest aspects of Intelligence in World War II in a small compass, Mr Collier has told the whole truth, fortunately without it turning out to be very unfavorable; and in the lessons to be drawn from it we indeed have one element of security if properly applied'.Basil Collier throws fresh light on the low priority given to Intelligence between the wars; the tendency of ministers and senior officials to rely less on intelligence reports than their own individual hunches; the failure to foresee the invasion of Norway; why, even with the aid of Enigma it was impossible to turn the scales in Crete, and why the Americans, though privy to some of Japans most closely guarded secrets, allowed the Pearl Harbor attack to take them by surprise.

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403

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Pen and Sword

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1844153673

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9781844153671

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Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

The Colonial Clippers

The Colonial Clippers

Hidden Weapons

Hidden Weapons

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