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Author : John de S. Winser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780905617862
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Short Sea, Long War written by John de S. Winser and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David L. Williams
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965517
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Lifeline Across the Sea written by David L. Williams and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The safe exchange of wounded or gravely ill prisoners of war, 'protected personnel' – medical staff and clergy – and diplomats, civilians and alien internees is a little known dimension of the Second World War, yet it was highly dangerous work. Here, David L. Williams tells the gripping story of some fifty mercy ships engaged in these repatriation voyages, each of the exchanges arranged individually between Allied nations and the Axis belligerents, through neutral intermediaries, and often conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross. Sailing alone and undefended through hostile waters, and conspicuously illuminated at night, the ships were constantly in danger from submarine and aircraft, their safety depending totally on the transmission and receipt of 'safe passage' commands to the armed units in their paths. However, despite the risk of attack and severe loss of life, these exchange operations were essential for providing a lifeline to thousands of people caught up in a cruel and brutal war.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sea Breezes written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy V Martin
Publisher : Roy V Martin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ebb and Flow written by Roy V Martin and published by Roy V Martin. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War the British Merchant Navy's main task was to bring food, fuel and materials to Britain and it's allies, and to ferry troops wherever they were needed. The ship's crews came from all parts of the then Empire and beyond. One in six of them lost their lives. They did much more, taking part in the evacuations and landings throughout the war. They played a key role in several of these operations, particularly the little known evacuations from France after Dunkirk and the evacuation of Singapore. They manned almost a thousand ships for the D-Day Landings, including more than half of the infantry Landing ships and all of the Hospital Carriers that ferried the wounded back to Britain.
Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Information
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Publications written by Great Britain. Ministry of Information and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Spencer Tucker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842028684
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (286 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the Civil War at Sea written by Spencer Tucker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Short History of the Civil War at Sea, Spencer C. Tucker, eminent naval and military historian, provides a concise and lively overview of the blue water Civil War, or fighting on the seas and attacks directed from the sea. This volume covers the drama of significant naval battles, like the first clash of ironclads at Hampton Roads, the Union capture of New Orleans, fierce action in the Charleston Harbor, and the Battle of Mobile Bay. A Short History of the Civil War at Sea also discusses important themes, like the technological revolution in naval warfare; the Confederate use of torpedoes, submarines, and commerce raiders; and the Union's successful strategy of blockade. The struggle at sea might not have been as bloody as the fighting on land, but it was every bit as interesting and included a colorful cast of characters, like David G. Farragut, the North's highest ranking and most accomplished naval officer, and Confederate naval officer, commerce raider, and Rebel Seadog Raphael Semmes. And the advances of naval technology during the Civil War are fascinating - from the use of new Dahlgren guns to the design and redesign of the ironclads to the extensive use of mines an
Author : John Morrissey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351032
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Long War written by John Morrissey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places on earth. From its inception, CENTCOM was tasked with the military and economic security of this key strategic area, the safeguarding of commercial opportunities therein, and ultimately the policing of a pivotal yet precarious space in the broader global economy. CENTCOM calls this mission its “Long War.” This book tells the story of that long war: a war underpinned by a range of entangled geopolitical and geoeconomic visions and involving the use of the most devastating Western interventionary violence of our time. Starting with a historical perspective, John Morrissey explores CENTCOM’s Cold War origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the command’s grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship on neoliberalism, imperialism, geopolitics, and Orientalism, the book then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has spearheaded and critically assesses their consequences in terms of human geography. Recent books on CENTCOM have focused on command structures, intelligence issues, and interpersonal rivalries. In contrast, The Long War asks critical questions about CENTCOM’s leading role in shaping and enacting U.S. foreign policy over the last thirty years. The book positions CENTCOM pivotally in the story of U.S. global ambition over this period by documenting its efforts to oversee a global security strategy defined in military-economic terms and enabled via specific legal-territorial tactics. This is an important new study on the blurring of war and economic aims on a global scale.
Author : Damon Root
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279230
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court written by Damon Root and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial activism v. judicial restraint—the fight for power in the Supreme Court
Author : Yoshiro Miwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026504
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s–1940s written by Yoshiro Miwa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government's ability, they continue to expect the best of governmental intervention. To study government competence in World War II Japan offers an intriguing laboratory. In this book, Yoshiro Miwa shows that the Japanese government did not conduct requisite planning for the war by any means. It made its choices on an ad hoc basis and the war itself quickly became a dead end. That the government planned for the war incompetently casts doubts on the accounts of Japanese government leadership more generally.
Author : Lord Ambrose Greenway
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848321708
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries written by Lord Ambrose Greenway and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book, beautifully illustrated with a magnificent collection of over 300 photographs, covers the development of a much-loved type of vessel, the 'classic' cross channel or short sea passenger ferry often described as a liner in miniature. From the mid-19th century paddle ferries slowly evolved into screw-driven steamers but it was the advent of the steam turbine and the construction of the railway steamers The Queen and Brighton in 1903 that caught the attention of the world. Similarly-propelled ships multiplied and their use soon spread to the Antipodes, Japan, the Mediterranean and North America. In 1912 Rudolf Diesel's new oil engine went to sea in a cargo ship but it was not until 1925 that it was first employed to widespread acclaim in the Danish North Sea packet Parkeston. In 1934 it made its debut on the English Channel with the Belgian Government's striking 25-knot motor ferry Prins Baudouin. The inexorable increase in car travel from the 1930s led to the development of a new breed of specialised car ferry accessed through bow and stern doors and the proliferation of these after WW2 led to the eventual demise of the 'classic' passenger ferry in the 1960s. With its informative introductory texts and abundant photographs and detailed captions, this book will appeal to ship enthusiasts around the world and to all those who mourn the passing of the golden age of the passenger ship.
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Leverage of Sea Power written by Colin S. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through colourful and lively historical illustrations as well as strategic theory, Gray shows how sea power, when integrated with land and air power, increases the combatant's opportunities and choices. With dozens of examples from the Greek and Persian wars of the fifth century B.C. through the recent war in the Gulf, Gray systematically demonstrates the ways sea power has been used, and how it might have been used, to win battles and wars. His thought-provoking commentary is certain to become essential reading for the makers of defense policy today. The Leverage of Sea Power is an important and original contribution to the science of warfare historically and in the nuclear age." --
Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9282105350
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (821 download)
Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Short Sea Shipping Report of the Eighty-Ninth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 26-27 September 1991 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the growing congestion of inland transport infrastructure, both road and rail, short sea shipping clearly warrants consideration as a valuable alternative. Round Table 89 provides some factual information and analyses on this topic.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Short Sea Shipping Opportunities in the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Naval Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
