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Author :Navy Records Society (Great Britain) Publisher :Aldershot, Hants : Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Publishing Company ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1224 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis British Naval Documents, 1204-1960 by : Navy Records Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book British Naval Documents, 1204-1960 written by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) and published by Aldershot, Hants : Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate its centenary in 1993, the Society produced a special volume covering seven hundred and fifty years of British naval history, containing 535 documents carefully selected by leading experts. See the contents of British Naval Documents 1204-1960.
Book Synopsis Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion by : United States. Naval War Records Office
Download or read book Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion written by United States. Naval War Records Office and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters and Papers Relating to the First Dutch War, 1652-1654 by : Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Download or read book Letters and Papers Relating to the First Dutch War, 1652-1654 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Churchill and Sea Power by : Christopher M. Bell
Download or read book Churchill and Sea Power written by Christopher M. Bell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of Winston Churchill's record as a naval strategist and his impact as the most prominent guardian of Britain's sea power in the modern era. The book debunks many popular and well-entrenched myths surrounding controversial episodes in both World Wars, including the Dardanelles disaster, the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the devastating loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse in 1941. It shows that many common criticisms of Churchill have been exaggerated, but also that some of his mistakes have been largely overlooked. The book also examines Churchill's evolution as a maritime strategist over the course of his career, and documents his critical part in managing Britain's naval decline during the first half of the twentieth century. Churchill's genuine affection for the Royal Navy has often distracted attention from the fact that his views on sea power were pragmatic and unsentimental. For, as Christopher M. Bell shows, in a period dominated by declining resources, global threats, and rapid technological change, it was increasingly air rather than sea power that Churchill looked to as the foundation of Britain's security.
Book Synopsis Naval Documents of the American Revolution by : United States. Naval History Division
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Foundations of Naval History by : Andrew D. Lambert
Download or read book The Foundations of Naval History written by Andrew D. Lambert and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foundations of Naval History covers the career of Sir John Knox Laughton (1830-1915) who, before his death, was influential in the growing debate about the strategy and tactics of contemporary navies. His friends or correspondents included all the major names in his field. This biography serves as a study of the evolution of naval thought in the crucial decades leading up to World War I.
Book Synopsis Castaways of the Kriegsmarine by : Derek Nudd
Download or read book Castaways of the Kriegsmarine written by Derek Nudd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 1943 brought little cheer to Hitler's Kriegsmarine, . As Mediterranean U-boats threw themselves into ever more desperately hopeless sorties against allied convoys a short, vicious battle in the Bay of Biscay sank a German blockade runner and three of the escorts trying to bring her in. On Boxing Day the battlecruiser Scharnhorst met her lonely end in the heaving, freezing waters of the Barents Sea off North Cape. Some of the survivors claimed they sang the U-boat anthem, No Roses Grow on a Seaman's Grave, as they awaited rescue or death. Only the most wilfully myopic of the exhausted, disoriented castaways brought to the Latimer House and Wilton Park interrogation centres could believe in ultimate victory, a gift for the experienced interviewers awaiting them. They knew how to adapt their approach to the individual prisoner, work patiently toward a result. And they had a secret weapon. Every word the prisoners said in their cells was overheard and, when interesting, recorded by secret listeners eavesdropping from another part of the site. This tale follows the interwoven fates of the bedraggled captives and the Naval Intelligence team coping with an unprecedented surge of subjects. It looks at how raw data and rumour became useful intelligence for strategists and fighting sailors, and highlights the contribution of this small, eclectic, irreverent band of reservists and Wrens to ultimate victory. This compelling story casts new light on the personalities involved on both sides, the pace and processes involved, the role of stool-pigeons, and the psychologists trying to see through the captives' eyes into Germany's deepest fears.
Book Synopsis Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War written by Samuel Pepys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two pieces of work which make up this volume were compiled by Pepys in the 1660s. The first is Pepys's own record of how the Navy Board functioned. It records details of meetings with fellow officers such as Sir William Penn and Sir John Mennes, and how work could be hampered at times by the refusal of an officer to sign a contract or bill as he had not been present at the original discussions. The Navy White Book gives the discussions which took place over a variety of matters, such as, contracts with Sir William Warren, a timber merchant; costs and quality of masts and canvas. The Brooke House Papers deal with the inquiry set up by the House of Commons into the conduct of the Second Dutch War, following the humiliation of the Dutch invasion of 1667, and the inefficiency of the Navy Board. The Brooke House Papers further show Pepys defending the Navy Board's professionalism and integrity, and also that naval administration during the Second Dutch War was efficient. The Papers also show Charles II 's role in protecting the Navy Board, by making his dissatisfaction with the inquiry known, through his disrespectful language and interruptions, as well as his support for Pepys, whom he makes the Board's spokesman.
Author :Rogèr Charles Anderson Publisher :London Printed for the Navy records society ISBN 13 : Total Pages :326 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (458 download)
Book Synopsis The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin, 1660-1678, Edited by R. C. Anderson by : Rogèr Charles Anderson
Download or read book The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin, 1660-1678, Edited by R. C. Anderson written by Rogèr Charles Anderson and published by London Printed for the Navy records society. This book was released on 1939 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Churchill and the Dardanelles by : Christopher M. Bell
Download or read book Churchill and the Dardanelles written by Christopher M. Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the highly controversial First World War campaign that nearly destroyed Churchill's reputation for good and of his decades-long battle to set the record straight--a battle which ultimately helped clear the way for Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in Britain's "darkest hour."
Book Synopsis Publications of the Huguenot Society of London by :
Download or read book Publications of the Huguenot Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 by : Brian Lavery
Download or read book Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 written by Brian Lavery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea behind this volume, according to its editor Brian Lavery, was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society, notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91, 1951, ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107, 1965, ed C C Lloyd.) The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because, stated Brian Lavery, 'there are no suitable documents from earlier periods' and closes in 1815, when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained, especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy, ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages, often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time, and the ways in which they were fed, clothed, allocated space for eating and sleeping, at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations, Captain's Orders, Medical Journals, discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time.
Book Synopsis Publications of the Navy Records Society by :
Download or read book Publications of the Navy Records Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars by : C. Bell
Download or read book The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars written by C. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the influence of Mahan, the role of the navy in peacetime, and the use of propaganda to influence the British public.
Book Synopsis The British Army and Signals Intelligence During the First World War by : John Ferris
Download or read book The British Army and Signals Intelligence During the First World War written by John Ferris and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historians have paid little attention to the British Army's experience with signals intelligence during the First World War. However, this was one of the Army's most important sources of information about crucial matters such as the order of battle and intentions of the German and Turkish Armies. Britain's successes and failures in signals intelligence profoundly affected battles ranging from the race for the Channel Ports, first Somme, third Gaza and Amiens, among many others." "While efforts to weed the records on these topics have created major gaps in the sources, surviving evidence throws an entirely new light on the British Army in the Great War. It allows one to trace the evolution of the Army's signals intelligence organisations, to determine many of their successes and failures, to show how this intelligence affected various operations and, indeed, to demonstrate that signals intelligence influenced the operations of the British Army as much as those of the Royal Navy." "The material reproduced in this volume includes excerpts from reports by Army Headquarters in France, Italy and Mesopotamia and the Military Intelligence Directorate. It includes the memorandum "Enemy Codes and their Solution" by the G.H.Q. codebreaking section in January 1918, which is one of the two best sources known to exist about the techniques of "codebreaking"; surviving reports on the enemy radio networks in the Balkans and Anatolian Turkey, which are the most illuminating evidence from any theatre on the approach toward "traffic analysis" and a report on the breaking of German and Turkish Army ciphers in Mesopotamia during 1917, which is the best source known about the techniques of "cryptanalysis" used by an Army in the Great War."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Publications of the Navy Records Society by :
Download or read book Publications of the Navy Records Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Naval Miscellany by : Navy Records Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book The Naval Miscellany written by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
