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The fascinating story of ships through the ages and the people who built them and sailed in them, 250 colour photographs, 12 superb reconstructions of milestone vessels
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The fascinating story of ships through the ages and the people who built them and sailed in them, 250 colour photographs, 12 superb reconstructions of milestone vessels
Author=Peter Kemp
Pages=128
Published=2000
Book Condtion=Ex public library book.library plate on front endpaper.generally excellent condition
| Weight | 1480 g |
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A facsimile edition of the official US Navy Intelligence manual published in World War II. A comprehensive guide to the uniforms, insignia and badges worn by the navies of the World War II period. Introduction by Andrew Mollo.
This work contains one hundred biographies which were published in “The Daily Telegraph” during the past twenty years – men of the Navy, Marines and Fleet Air Arm, as well as the merchant fleet. They include such heroes as the Atlantic convoy commander Peter Gretton and the submariner Godfrey Place, VC; the yachtsman and U-boat hunter Stan Darling as well as the corvette commander Charles Cuthbertson, model for the captain in The Cruel Sea. Bill Sparks, the cockleshell hero, and Derek Pounds, who fought behind the lines in Korea, represent the pluck of the Marines while “Hooch” Williamson, who led the attack on Taranto, and Ken Pattison, who had the best claim to have sunk the Bismarck, demonstrate all the dash of the FAA. Written with humour and insight, here are tales of the derring-do, skilled seamanship and steady judgement which characterises the Senior Service.
This book was originally writen to provide Naval students of electrical technology with a collection of worked examples and carefully graded sets of exersises covering the scope of many electrical examinations in the Navy.
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