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Author : Sir Percy Scott (Bart.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years in the Royal Navy written by Sir Percy Scott (Bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. H. Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474268404
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity 1919-22 written by G. H. Bennett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book thoroughly explores and analyses naval policy during the period of austerity that followed the First World War. During this post-war period, as the Royal Navy identified Japan its likely opponent in a future naval war, the British Government was forced to “tighten its belt” and cut back on naval expenditure in the interests of “National Economy”. G.H. Bennett draws connections between the early 20th century and the present day, showing how the same kind of connections exist between naval and foreign policy, the provision of ships for the Royal Navy, business and regional prosperity and employment. The Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity 1919-22 engages with a series of important historiographical debates relating to the history of the Royal Navy, the failures of British Defence policy in the inter-war period and the evolution of British foreign policy after 1919, together with more mundane debates about British economic, industrial, social and political history in the aftermath of the First World War. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of British naval history.
Author : Andrew Nahum
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789143985
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Paths of Fire written by Andrew Nahum and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Type “Mikhail Kalashnikov” into Google and the biography of the inventor will come back to you almost at the speed of light. Squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov and a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that would have been quite familiar to Oliver Cromwell or General Custer. The gun—antique, yet contemporary—still dominates the world. Geopolitical events and even consumer culture have been molded by the often-unseen research that firearms evoked. The new science of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton owed much to the Renaissance study of ballistics. But research into making guns and aiming them also brought on the more recent invention of mass production and kickstarted the contemporary field of artificial intelligence. This book follows the history of the gun and its often-unsuspected wider linkages, looking from the first cannons to modern gunnery, and to the yet-to-be-realized electrical futures of rays and beams.
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Total Pages : 1146 pages
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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jameson
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781904381280
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (812 download)
Download or read book The Fleet that Jack Built written by William Jameson and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume not only provides biographies on nine great admirals, each complete in itself, but at the same time it links them together so that the book is a piece of naval history.
Author : I. B. Holley, Jr.
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788148605
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Ideas and Weapons written by I. B. Holley, Jr. and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the enormous destructive capacity of precision weapons in the modern era and the inherent vulnerabilities of modern society to high technology attack, this book is more relevant today than when it was first written in the midst of the nuclear age, in 1953. Remaining one of the finest texts ever written on the history of warfare and weapons acquisition, this is a thorough and reliable work that should be a standard reference for acquisition managers and decision-makers, providing a guide to informed decision-making that reflects the experience and lessons of the past. Bibliographical notes. Index.
Download or read book Pearson's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Marolda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137055014
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and the Spanish-American War written by E. Marolda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creation of a fleet of modern, steel-hulled warships armed with the most powerful weapons available. The future president and his intellectual soul mate, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, firmly believed that America's emerging global expansion would only reach its full potential through sea. power. The swift and overwhelming US victor in the Spanish-American War of 1898 vindicated the views of Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Mahan, and marked the debut on the world stage of the modern US Navy. Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and the Spanish American War considers the impact Roosevelt had on the US navy in general and how his reforms affected the course and outcome of the Spanish-American war in particular. The nine contributors to this volume include leading historians, and prominent naval officers from the US and Spain. With essays ranging from the Roosevelt family's naval heritage to the impact of the Spanish-American War on enlisted forces in the navy, this work is a major contribution to our understanding of Theodore Roosevelt and 'his' navy.
Author : Percy Moreton Scott
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781347319734
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years in the Royal Navy written by Percy Moreton Scott and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Interior written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly "Magazine supplement".
Author : George Park Fisher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Yale Review written by George Park Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul G Halpern
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511724
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Naval History of World War I written by Paul G Halpern and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas. This book offers for the first time a balanced history of the naval war as a whole, viewed from the perspective of all participants in all major theaters. The author's earlier examination The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918, centered on submarine activities and allied efforts to counteract this new menace. With this welcome sequel he again takes the reader beyond those World War I operations staged on the North Sea. Halpern's clear and authoritative voice lends a cohesiveness to this encompassing view of the Italians and Austrians in the Adriatic; the Russians, Germans, and Turks in the Baltic and Black Seas; and French and British in the Mediterranean. Important riverine engagements--notably on the Danube--also are included, along with major colonial campaigns such as Mesopotamia and the Dardanelles. The role of neutral sea powers, such as the Swedes in the Baltic and the Dutch in the East Indies, is examined from the perspective of how their neutrality affected naval activity. Also discussed is the part played by the U.S. Navy and the often overlooked, but far from negligible, role of the Japanese navy. The latter is viewed in the context of the opening months of the war and in the Mediterranean during the height of the submarine crisis of 1917.
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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Marder
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473842654
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Volume I written by Arthur Marder and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterpiece . . . an indispensable source on the Royal Navy’s development in the decade before the First World War.” —War in History The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder’s From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A. J. P. Taylor wrote that “his naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivalled mastery of sources he adds a gift of simple narrative . . . He is beyond praise, as he is beyond cavil.” The five volumes were subtitled The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919 and they are still, despite recent major contributions from Robert Massie and Andrew Gordan, regarded by many as the definitive history of naval events leading up to and including the Great War. This first volume covers many facets of the history of the Royal Navy during the pre-war decade, including the economic and political background such as the 1906 Liberal Government hostility towards naval spending. Inevitably, however, attention moves to the German naval challenge, the arms race and the subsequent Anglo-German rivalry, and, finally, the British plans for the blockade of the German High Seas Fleet. A new introduction by Barry Gough, the distinguished Canadian maritime and naval historian, assesses the importance of Marder’s work and anchors it firmly amongst the great naval narrative histories of this era. This ebook edition will bring a truly great work to a new generation of historians and general readers. “[An] extensive and masterly classic work of the Royal Navy in the Great War. A prodigious work of scholarship.” —Scuttlebutt (Friends of the RN Museum)
Author : Barry D. Powers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000339300
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Strategy Without Slide-Rule written by Barry D. Powers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion. The misdirection, judging by the criteria of successful aerial defence in World War II, was primarily in the downgrading of home defence measures including the fighter plane. The delusion, again judging by Britain’s efforts in that second world war, was primarily in the assumption of the effects to be obtained by strategic bombing. In both cases, the First World War was a major catalyst. Although events and writings before that war indicate the coming patterns, it was during that war that a great amount of the patterns are well established. Originally published in 1976, this work explores these origins and stresses the interaction between various diverse segments of English society in the formation of the major patterns. The working out of these patterns in the first half of the interwar years is also analysed, again with respect to diverse groupings in Britain.
Author : Jan S. Breemer
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9781884733772
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Defeating the U-boat written by Jan S. Breemer and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Defeating the U-boat: Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare, Newport Paper 36, Jan. S. Breemer tells the story of the British response to the German submarine threat. His account of Germany's 'asymmetric' challenge (to use the contemporary term) to Britain's naval mastery holds important lessons for the United States today, the U.S. Navy in particular. The Royal Navy's obstinate refusal to consider seriously the option of convoying merchant vessels, which turned out to be key to the solution of the U-boat problem, demonstrates the extent to which professional military cultures can thwart technical and operational innovation even in circumstances of existential threat. Although historical controversy continues to cloud this issue, ... Breemer ends his lively and informative study with some general reflections on military innovation and the requirements for fostering it. "--Foreword.
