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An outline of the principles and methods of naval warfare, comprehensive and excellently organized, this book will interest the general public as well as naval personnel.
Intended for the general reader, Fundamentals of Naval Warfare is a plea for better understanding of the facts about naval warfare in order to support security measures. Ships and bases need trained personnel-the cost of unpreparedness is high. Here is a summary of the history of...
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On September 4, 1939, Admiral Creighton, who had retired from the Navy five years earlier, reported again to the Admiralty for service as a Commodore of Ocean Convoys. In the following three years he conducted 24 convoys to various parts of the world. The greater part of this time was spent on the North Atlantic route with its violent storms and the continual menace of U-boat attack. But there were other destinations, such as Suez via the Cape of...
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Assault from the Sea, first published in 1949, is Rear-Admiral Maund's account of the development of the Royal Navy's landing craft and their use operationally between 1939 and 1945. 'It is the purpose of this book to show how this knowledge and equipment were gradually collected. It starts in the days before the last war, when most people thought landing operations would be impossible, and traces their development to the days of the great awakening...
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Originally published in 1943, this is a unique collection of accounts relating to 19 distinguished Royal Navy Admirals and Captains of the Second World War Royal Navy. Written in the midst of World War II by Royal Navy Commander Kenneth Edwards, each contemporary portrait is filled with fascinating details. From the grey ships accompanying the convoys in the Atlantic to the seaborne Royal Navy Marines the struggle at sea during the Second World War...
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One night in December 1941, a young Italian sat shivering on a buoy in Alexandria Harbour. Four hours later two British battleships blew up and settled on the muddy bottom. Luigi De La Penne had successfully completed one of the most fantastic surprise attacks of the war. This and many other extraordinary attacks showed great resourcefulness, courage and daring. The cost in lives and material was small, the stakes dazzlingly high. First published...
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DUEL AT SEA… From the moment the radar indicated a German sub, the captain of the destroyer Hecate knew he would achieve his life's ambition-a duel to the death in deserted waters between his ship and an enemy submarine. Below the choppy sea sped the U-121 commanded by Kapitän von Stolberg, an efficient, brutal sailor who also welcomed a fight to the finish-but for a different reason. His submarine was entrusted with a mission that could prove...
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First published in 1951, this is the autobiography of a distinguished commander of WWII. Serving in both wars, he was Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean at the outbreak of war, forced to cope with inadequate resources and virtually no air cover. After a short spell in Washington as a Naval Representative he returned as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean and worked with Eisenhower and Alexander. His unique insight into the meetings with Churchill, Stalin...
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This rousing World War II tale is set in February 1943. H.M.S. destroyer 'Hecate' is pulled out of convoy escort duty to tow the crippled (and abandoned) Greek tanker 'Antioch' 500 miles across the North Atlantic from the spot where she had been attacked by a German wolfpack to the safety of a British port. The 'Antioch', at 15,000 tons, had been the largest ship in her convoy and her cargo of four million gallons of high-octane petroleum (enough...
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This is the story of the German Navy during 1939-1945.Inadequately prepared for the Second World War, the navy led a bitter struggle on all seas, and in the end was subjected to an overwhelming defeat. More than 120,000 lives were lost, including many individuals whose firsthand accounts make up this gripping and detailed documentary report; they are indispensable if the spirit of that era and the resulting events, as well as the willingness to take...
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Heinrich Hoffmann was the photographer to kings, princes, and the glitterati of the first half of the 20th Century. His archive of images ran into the millions and he grew to be rich and moderately famous. An assistant in London to Emil Otto Hoppé, the undisputed leader of pictorial portraiture in Europe at the time, Hoffmann returned to Germany, progressed through the tumult of WWI into the chaos of the Weimar, and there he came into contact with...
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First published in 1948, this is the inside story by the former head of the Polish Government in Exile, and more recently head of the Peasants' Party in Poland, which tried to find a way to co-operate with the Soviets. 'A raging question in Poland has become, 'How long will it take them to communize us completely?' To my mind, however, the question is badly framed. I am convinced that human beings cannot be converted to communism if that conversion...
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British General J. F. C. Fuller is one of the greatest military thinkers of this century, and has been called the Clausewitz of our time. This book is Fuller's direct and clear-eyed account of the most terrible war of the modern era. Expertly combining detailed military history and analysis with Clausewitzian insights based on his own theories of warfare, Fuller produced a modern military masterpiece in The Second World War.
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The history of the 78th Infantry Division in World War II, as in World War I, is a record of heroic achievement, mission accomplished and outstanding service to the United States of America.
War, as such, is opposed to American principles and ideals-nevertheless, in time of emergency our citizens turn from peaceful pursuits to undertake protection of their country with steadfast determination. This was the situation when, in Aug. 1942, I took command...
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First published in 1955, this book is a short history of the Guards Armoured Division, which was an armoured division of the British Army during the Second World War. The division was created in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1941 during World War II from elements of the Guards units, the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, and Welsh Guards. The division remained in the United Kingdom, training, until 13 June 1944, when...
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"The present essay is a pragmatic study of monarchism as a political factor in Germany during the period of the Weimar Republic. It seeks to illuminate the history of that period by concentrating on the most powerful opposing force with which the democratic republic in Germany was confronted during the major part of its existence. It also aims at an answer to the question why the fall of the Weimar Republic did not bring about a restoration of the...
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First published in 1956, this is the biography of Patrick Jay Hurley (1883-1963), a highly decorated American soldier, statesman, and diplomat who served as the U.S. Secretary of War (1929-1933), President Roosevelt's personal representative in the Near and Middle East (1943), and U.S. ambassador to China (1944-1945). It details the historic events with which Major-General Hurley came in contact; the absorption of the American Indian; the civilizing...
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In the fateful summer of 1940 Germany stood astride a prostrate Europe while the world held its breath and wondered, "Where next?" Hitler's war machine had smashed Poland the previous fall, and the dull months of "Sitzkrieg" which followed had gradually lulled the Allies into anticipation of settlement. Then, in the spring, the German legions had suddenly burst into Denmark and Norway and through the Low Countries and France to the Channel coast....
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British lawyer and Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan served as Deputy Adjutant-General in Berlin from 1919-1923 at the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control-a term used in a series of peace treaties concluded after World War I (1914-1918) between different countries. Each of these treaties was concluded between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers (consisting of the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan)...
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If you think of biography as the static record of a man's achievement, compiled during twenty or more mellowing years, William Frye's book will have the impact of an electric shock. Marshall: Citizen Soldier is not to be leafed through idly, just as George Catlett Marshall himself cannot be regarded passively. That deceptively mild manner of his, as buck privates, brass hats and not a few politicos have discovered, only indifferently conceals a driving...
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