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Submarines at War 1939-45

By: Richard Compton-Hall,Richard Compton-Hall, MBE, RN

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Submarines at War 1939-45

By: Richard Compton-Hall,Richard Compton-Hall, MBE, RN

This volume provides Compton Hall's pictorial history of submarine warfare in World War II.

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164

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Periscope Publishing Ltd.

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ISBN 10

1904381227

ISBN 13

9781904381228

The Submarine Pioneers

The Beginnings of Underwater Warfare

By: Richard Compton-Hall

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The Submarine Pioneers

The Beginnings of Underwater Warfare

By: Richard Compton-Hall

This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines. It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war.

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198

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Periscope Publishing Ltd.

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ISBN 10

1904381197

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9781904381198

Submarines at War 1914-1918

By: Richard Compton-Hall

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Submarines at War 1914-1918

By: Richard Compton-Hall

This work is a landmark history of submarine warfare during World War I. An-ex submariner, the author captures the essence of what is what like to operate in these new and lethal craft. This periscope eye view introduces the reader to the great submarine commanders, the tactics they employed and the often-futile attempts made to sink them.

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380

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Periscope Publishing Ltd.

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1904381219

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9781904381211

The Seabound Coast

The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939, Volume I

By: William Johnston,William G.P. Rawling,Richard H. Gimblett,John MacFarlane

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The Seabound Coast

The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939, Volume I

By: William Johnston,William G.P. Rawling,Richard H. Gimblett,John MacFarlane

Commended for the 2011 Keith Matthews Award From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navys first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent British cruisers to the force of six modern destroyers and four minesweepers with which it began the Second World War. The previously published Volume II of this history, Part 1, No Higher Purpose, and Part 2, A Blue Water Navy, has already told the story of the RCN during the 19391945 conflict. Based on extensive archival research, The Seabound Coast recounts the acrimonious debates that eventually led to the RCNs establishment in 1910, its tenuous existence following the Laurier governments sudden replacement by that of Robert Borden one year later, and the navys struggles during the First World War when it was forced to defend Canadian waters with only a handful of resources. From the effects of the devastating Halifax explosion in December 1917 to the U-boat campaign off Canadas East Coast in 1918, the volume examines how the RCNs task was made more difficult by the often inconsistent advice Ottawa received from the British Admiralty in London. In its final section, this important and well-illustrated history relates the RCNs experience during the interwar years when anti-war sentiment and an economic depression threatened the services very survival.

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1292

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Dundurn

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ISBN 10

1459713249

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9781459713246

Arms Control At Sea

By: J Richard Hill

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Arms Control At Sea

By: J Richard Hill

Originally published in 1989, this book reviews the history of maritime control measures from before the First World War and provides a critical examination of both the objectives of maritime power and the concepts of disarmament, peace zones, parity, verifiability and peaceful co-existence. It argues that the objectives or maritime power are not necessarily incompatible with international security and that strategic deterrence can contribute to improved security. Limitation measures, it is argued, can in some cases be double-edged, endangering other security fields and having a destabilizing effect. The book stresses the need for non-absolute solutions in order to achieve a reasonable level of security and makes proposals for both structural and confidence-building measures along those lines

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223

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Taylor & Francis

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104001240X

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9781040012406

The Oxford Guide to World War II

By: Ian Dear,Michael Richard Daniel Foot

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The Oxford Guide to World War II

By: Ian Dear,Michael Richard Daniel Foot

First published in 1995 as The Oxford companion to the Second World War "--Verso.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195340965

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9780195340969

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Submarines at War 1939-45

Submarines at War 1939-45

The Submarine Pioneers

The Submarine Pioneers

Submarines at War 1914-1918

Submarines at War 1914-1918

The Seabound Coast

The Seabound Coast

Arms Control At Sea

Arms Control At Sea

The Oxford Guide to World War II

The Oxford Guide to World War II

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