On opening this book your reviewer thought, “Ho hum, yet another dreary rehash of the Bass and Flinders story”. Fortunately, he was wrong, very wrong. It takes a ..
Tag: history
I regret to report that my old friend and Navy League colleague Admiral Andrew Robertson passed away a few days ago. I shall miss him sitting opposite me across the table ..
A big, thick, glossy and beautifully illustrated book in the usual DK (Dorling Kindersley) mould, this offers an excellent overview of almost five millennia of maritime ..
This is naval history at its best. The author has an unusually sardonic style that sees him inject impressively and amusingly appropriate comments throughout his text. ..
It was a very long campaign indeed and this first rate book covers it in considerable detail. Effectively, it is an operational history that records a great deal of what ..
This is a second excellent “operational history” of an arm of the Nazi Kriegsmarine from the same diligent author. His Schnellboote history was reviewed here ..
Not having seen a copy of this excellent but somewhat idiosyncratic annual publication for a decade, it has been a pleasure to re-make its acquaintance. With a ..
A young Douglas MacArthur, touring Japan in 1903 with his father, General Arthur MacArthur, was informed by his father that Japan and America would be at war in his, ..
You have to feel very sorry for all these seafarers – 200,000 of them at the last count – whose voyages are being extended on account of the Covid-19 crisis. While ..
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