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Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis primary reference reveals the contemporary, often verbatim record of how the German command decisions were made during World War II, and the reasoning and planning behind them.
Author: Chris Madsen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1135223653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the bitter lessons of German self-disarmament in 1919, Britain was far more alert and focused when it came to overseeing the disarmament of Germany's naval forces after World War II. This book shows how well-prepared the British were second time around.
Author: Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 594
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: N.A.M. Rodger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1349138606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a century since Mahan and his disciples taught the world that a battlefleet was indispensable to a great power. Great and not so great powers still keep powerful navies today, but we have no generally-accepted principles to explain why. In this book historians and naval officers from Britain, the United States and other countries study the use of naval power over a century, and ask what it is for, and what it can do. It will be essential reading for modern historians, policy-makers and strategists.
Author: James P. Delgado
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-06-20
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1849088608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Silent Killers is a triumph that is educational as well as highly entertaining.' - Clive Cussler James P. Delgado, President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, presents a detailed and visually stunning examination of the history and development of the modern nuclear submarine. Calling on his training as a nautical archaeologist who was among the first explorers to dive the Titanic, Delgado recreates the story of the submarine from the bottom up – that is through eerie photographs of subs at the bottom of the sea. In addition, he explores submarine technology, from wooden to iron to steel hulls, from hand-cranked to nuclear-powered propulsion, from candlelight to electricity, from gunpowder 'torpedoes' to nuclear missiles. An esteemed underwater archaeologist and marine historian, Jim Delgado has compiled an extraordinary history of the dragons of the deep.
Author: Ian Herrington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1786735644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry out a range of operations from sabotage and assassination to attempts to organise an underground guerrilla army. This book is the first multi-archival, international academic analysis of SOE's policy and operations in Norway and the influences that shaped them, challenging previous interpretations of the relationship between this organisation and both the Norwegian authorities and the Milorg resistance movement.
Author: Anthony J Cumming
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1612518354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940. Anthony Cumming challenges the view that the Battle of Britain was a decisive victory won solely by the Royal Air Force through independent airpower operations. By re-evaluating the early stage of the Mediterranean conflict and giving special emphasis to naval battles such as Calabria and Taranto, Cumming argues that the Royal Navy played an equally important role in defeating Hitler’s early advances, buying critical time until the Americans could make a decisive contribution. His argument holds that the RAF’s role as an independent arm has been exaggerated and that contemporary strategists can learn from investing too much confidence in independent airpower.
Author: John White
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-08-04
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0750979534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the time of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, the U-boats were a beaten force, hunted and harried wherever they appeared by Allied warships and aircraft. The U-boats proved to be little more than pin pricks against the landings, and advancing Anglo-American armies had driven them out of their French west Atlantic bases all the way back to Norway by September 1944. Yet the U-boat force mounted a sustained and effective campaign from their Norwegian bases. Admiral Doenitz revived the U-boat War against Allied merchant shipping with new inventions in the face of a massive Allied naval defence while Germany collapsed. The east coast waters were shallow and heavily mined. Other German naval forces made a significant contribution. The campaign also saw the first and only appearances of the new Type XXIII electric U-boats, a radically new submarine design, the forerunner of modern diesel-electric submarines. John White examines in detail the U-boat reaction to the Normandy Landings in June 1944, the Norwegian U-boat bases, German torpedoes, the interference by U-boat Command, the Scapa Flow carrier operation and the Allied response up to the final surrender in May 1945.
Author: Marjorie Millace Whiteman
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1042
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Total Pages: 1042
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