First, as an older reader who finds 660 pages of book a bit hard to handle, especially while lying on a sofa, your reviewer was delighted that this excellent book was div ..
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The US Coast Guard took delivery of its 46th Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) on Thursday, October 21. Built by Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana, the future USCG ..
For an old “naval gazer” like your reviewer, the arrival of the latest issue of Osprey Publishing’s Warship yearbook is always a treat. Overflowing with lengthy, de ..
The very important “breakthrough” Battle of the Bismarck Sea has been largely forgotten and barely commemorated. This seems to have been largely at the behest of Gen ..
It is a pity that it has taken twenty years for this important book to be published. Your reviewer has a vague recollection of hearing the story contemporaneously but, as ..
Given the frustratingly slow rate of warship production nowadays, it is probably difficult to comprehend that the American “military industrial” complex launched more ..
A finely wrought and conveniently brief account of one of history’s most important naval battles, this excellent little book describes the subject perfectly. The battle ..
Quintin Barry is a retired British lawyer and employment judge who has a rather obsessive interest in and talent for recording military, particularly naval, history. This ..
In researching this excellent and very important book, Dr Paul Brown has been determined, brave and persistent. Using the British Freedom of Information Act to the full, ..
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