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“david k brown”

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  • Atlantic Escorts

    Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II

    by David K. Brown ...
    "Altogether, a very detailed year-by-year account of escort development for anti-submarine work from the period between the wars to post World War II." —The Nautical MagazineWinston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to North America had been cut, Britain would never have ... Read more

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  • Warrior to Dreadnought

    Warship Design and Development 1860-1905

    by David K Brown ...
    In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the First World War.The author explains how ninetheenth-century designers responded to developments in ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before the Ironclad

    Warship Design and Development, 1815–1860

    by David K. Brown ...
    An illustrated and indispensable history of the evolution of the British Royal Navy's nineteenth century fleet of warships.In the massive revolution that affected warship design between Waterloo and the Warrior, the Royal Navy was traditionally depicted as fiercely resisting every change until it was almost too late, but these old assumptions are challenged in this authoritative history of the ... Read more

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  • Fighters Over the Fleet

    Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

    by Norman Friedman ...
    A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s.This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial ... Read more

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  • British Destroyers & Frigates

    The Second World War & After

    by Norman Friedman, A D Baker ...
    "A comprehensive survey of the design history and development of the Royal Navy's greyhounds of the sea."— WARSHIPS MagazineSince World War II, the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically different "Tribal" class destroyers of 1936. It deals with the development of all the modern destroyer classes that fought the war, ... Read more

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  • British Aircraft Carriers

    Design, Development & Service Histories

    by David Hobbs ...
    " This superb book . . . will undoubtedly become the definitive volume on British Aircraft carriers and naval aviation . . . magnificent."—Marine NewsThis book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters ... Read more

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  • Naval Firepower

    Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

    by Norman Friedman ...
    An in-depth history of naval battleship firepower from before World War I to the end of World War II, by America's leading naval analyst.For more than half a century, the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a "firing solution" ... Read more

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  • Treaty Cruisers

    The First International Warship Building Competition

    by Leo Marriott ...
    "A quite enlightening book that discusses the most important group of heavy cruisers serving during WW2 and how the type evolved." — Malcolm Wright, author of British and Commonwealth Warshi p Camouflage of WWIIThe Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in World War II. In partic... ... Read more

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  • British Destroyers

    From Earliest Days to the Second World War

    by Norman Friedman, A D Baker ...
    A history of the early days of Royal Navy destroyers, and how they evolved to meet new military threats.In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest, exponents of sea power.Not ... Read more

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  • British Cruisers

    Two World Wars and After

    by Norman Friedman ...
    "An extraordinarily detailed account of the development of Royal Navy cruisers . . . a towering work" from the author of Fighting the Great War at Sea ( Warship 2012).For most of the twentieth century, Britain possessed both the world's largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the ... Read more

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  • Battle of Surigao Strait

    by Anthony P. Tully ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "[Tully] paints Admiral Nishimura's high-speed run into history with an entirely fresh palette of detail." —James D. Hornfischer, New York Times–bestselling author of Neptune's InfernoSurigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of ... Read more

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  • The Escort Carrier of the Second World War

    Combustible, Vulnerable and Expendable!

    by David Wragg ...
    To the US Navy they were CVEs! To the Royal Navy auxiliary carriers! To crews of endangered merchantmen in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans they were heaven-sent protection! To their crews they were Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable!The need for air cover against enemy aircraft and submarines brought unprecedented demand for carriers. Over 100 vessels were converted on specially built for convoy ... Read more

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