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  • Naval Policy Between the Wars, Volume II

    The Period of Reluctant Rearmament, 1930–1939

    First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime equivalent of the official naval histories, filling the gap ... Leer más

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  • Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: The Last Naval Hero

    An Intimate Biography

    Admiral Beatty was beyond doubt the best known fighting Admiral, perhaps the best known military leader, of the First World War. His conduct at Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, and later at Jutland, caught the public imagination, while his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet in taking into custody the German High Sea Fleet in November 1918 associated him with perhaps the most tangible ... Leer más

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  • The Secret Capture

    U-110 and the Enigma Story

    "A real-life Boy's Own escapade, telling the absorbing story about the capture of U-boat 110 in May 1941 by the Royal Navy." — Defense Focus MagazineFor fifteen years after the end of the war, all official Admiralty records showed the German submarine U-110 as sunk on nine May 1941 by the surface escorts of convoy OB.318. As this book was th... ... Leer más

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  • Churchill and the Admirals

    Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
    The classic history about Winston Churchill's role as a strategist in both World Wars and his misuse of sea power."A massively thought-provoking book. . . . Roskill's book gives us an excellent and authoritative insight into Churchill as a leader, and serves as an excellent antidote to the modern tendency to worship him blindly. . . . Roskill has a highbrow but entirely readable style, and despite ... Leer más

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  • Naval Policy Between the Wars, Volume I

    The Period of Anglo-American Antagonism, 1919–1929

    First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime equivalent of the official naval histories, filling the gap ... Leer más

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  • Historical Dreadnoughts

    Arthur Marder, Stephen Roskill and Battles for Naval History

    de Barry Gough ...
    An account of Arthur Marder, his famous sparring partner Captain Stephen Roskill, and their enduring quest for pre-eminence in the naval history field.This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century—the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the ... Leer más

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    How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours

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  • The Battle of Britain

    Dowding and the First Victory, 1940

    de John Ray ...
    July 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Roval Navy, stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expected German invasion. But the Luftwaffe's ill-prepared and last-minute assault on the RAF was met by a carefully planned system of fighter intervention, the defensive strategy devised by Hugh Dowding, ... Leer más

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  • Jutland

    The Unfinished Battle

    **"A compelling, dramatic account of the Royal Navy's last great sea battle." —Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of DreadnoughtMore than a century later, historians still argue about this controversial and misunderstood World War I naval battle off the coast of Denmark. It was the twentieth century's first engagement of dreadnoughts—and while it left ... Leer más

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  • Fromelles 1916

    de Paul Cobb ...
    At Fromelles in July 1916 two divisions – one British and one Australian – within a few weeks of arriving in France – went into action for the first time. Their task was to prevent the Germans from moving troops to the Somme where a major British offensive was in progress, but the attack on 19/20 July was a disaster with nearly 7,000 casualties in a few hours. This account explores this battle ... Leer más

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  • Hollow Heroes

    An Unvarnished Look at the Wartime Careers of Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten

    These revealing portraits of Churchill, Montgomery, and Mountbatten expose the truth about the most famous British figures in WWII history.Hollow Heroes separates fact from fiction regarding three of Great Britain's most revered World War II–era military leaders—Winston Churchill, Bernard Montgomery, and Louis Mountbatten—revealing that their reputations were largely built on deception and ... Leer más

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    The Wartime Leader and the Battles at Sea

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