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“robert dumas”

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  • French Battleships, 1922–1956

    by John Jordan, Robert Dumas ...
    This illustrated naval history presents a comprehensive study of French battleships constructed after the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.The French battleships of the Dunkerque and Richelieu classes were the most radical and influential battleship designs of the interwar period, and were coveted by the British, German and Italian navies following the Armistice of June 1940. Using a wealth of ... Read more

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  • French Cruisers, 1922–1956

    by Jean Moulin, John Jordan ...
    A technical analysis and pictorial history of the French navy cruisers built in the early to mid-twentieth century.The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership ... Read more

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  • German Battlecruisers of World War One

    Their Design, Construction and Operations

    by Gary Staff ...
    The most comprehensive English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's WWI battlecruisers, fully illustrated with drawings, diagrams and photographs.In this in-depth study, naval historian and author of Battle on the Seven Seas Gary Staff presents a full analysis of Imperial Germany's battlecruisers. Known as Panzerkreuzer, the eight ships of this class were involved in several early North ... Read more

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  • Warships After London

    The End of the Treaty Era in the Five Major Fleets, 1930–1936

    by John Jordan ...
    The acclaimed naval historian presents an authoritative study of how the 1930 Treaty of London influenced warship design in the years before WW2.After the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 put a cap on the construction of capital ships and aircraft carriers, the major navies of the world began building 'treaty cruisers' and other warships that maximized power while abiding the restrictions. As the ... Read more

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  • Take These Men

    Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats

    by Cyril Joly ...
    A 1955 military memoir offering a first-hand account of life in the British 7th Armoured Division during World War II.Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly's classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind.From 1940 ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Great Game

    Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia

    by Riaz Dean ...
    The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, ... Read more

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  • Landing in Hell

    The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

    by Peter Margaritis ...
    A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. Boasting a large airfield from which the Americans could mount bomber campaigns, Peleliu was a strategically essential part of Gen. ... Read more

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  • Logistics in the Falklands War

    A Case Study in Expeditionary Warfare

    by Kenneth L. Privratsky ...
    A military logistics expert analyzes the detailed coordination employed by the British during the Falklands War in 1982.While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge: the lack of preparation time, the urgency, the huge distances involved, and the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four ... 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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  • Poilu

    The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914 – 1918

    by Louis Barthas, Robert Cowley ...
    Translated by Edward M. Strauss ...
    "An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier's experience of the First World War."—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling authorAlong with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, ... Read more

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  • Instruments of Darkness

    The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939–1945

    by Alfred Price ...
    The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during the Second World War, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of thrusts, parries and counter-thrusts, as first one side then the other sought to wrest the initiative in the struggle to control the ether. This ... Read more

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  • Eyewitness on the Somme 1916

    by Matthew Richardson, Gary Sheffield ...
    What was the soldiers experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous and contentious - episodes of the Great War? Matthew Richardsons graphic account, which is based on the vivid personal testimony of those who took part, offers us a direct ... Read more

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