This a very personal but still excellent account of an important but unsung feature of Allied naval success in World War II. To your reviewer, who knew many such Naval Re ..
Author: Neil Baird
Co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Baird Maritime and Work Boat World magazine, Neil has travelled the length and breadth of this planet in over 40 years in the business. He knows the global work boat industry better than anyone.
Sydney-based retired journalist and broadcaster Mike Carlton has become a prolific author of first-rate books on Australian naval history. This, his latest effort, mainta ..
This is a very interesting, thought-provoking and, even, inspiring little book. Written by two Singapore-based American defence journalists, it is more objective in its a ..
This fine book covers a very unusual subject, though it does cover that subject very well. It describes the development of an effective naval culture, particularly a comm ..
The Australian fishing industry lost one of its renowned pioneers last week. Bob Mostyn, former managing director of the major seafood exporter Craig Mostyn and Co, died ..
These two fine books should be read sequentially in the above order. Apart from being excellent personal memoirs of a seagoing life from naïve Scottish deck cadet to cyn ..
This massive, 480 A4 pages tome nearly injured my postman. It is quite a work as you would expect from Mike Wall, a Thailand- and Hong Kong-based Englishman who has becom ..
Having carefully reviewed these amazing annual publications for probably thirty years, I never cease to be amazed at the amount of detailed research that has gone into th ..
Admiral Jim Stavridis has for many years been a very prolific author and commentator. He proves that the expression “naval intellectual” is not a complete oxymoron. T ..
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