While it happened for very different reasons than the current invasion of Ukraine nearly half a century later, the Soviet suppression of the mutiny aboard the multi-purpo ..
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It is often said that wars bring out the best and the worst in people. That was certainly very true of the three wars described in this excellent book. Those wars were th ..
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This a very personal but still excellent account of an important but unsung feature of Allied naval success in World War II. To your reviewer, who knew many such Naval Re ..
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This fine book covers a very unusual subject, though it does cover that subject very well. It describes the development of an effective naval culture, particularly a comm ..
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When I was a young boy, I had a big book of ships that included cut-away images of some of the vessels. The British Atlantic passenger ship Queen Mary was one. I was fasc ..
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This massive, 480 A4 pages tome nearly injured my postman. It is quite a work as you would expect from Mike Wall, a Thailand- and Hong Kong-based Englishman who has becom ..
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Sydney-based retired journalist and broadcaster Mike Carlton has become a prolific author of first-rate books on Australian naval history. This, his latest effort, mainta ..
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Having carefully reviewed these amazing annual publications for probably thirty years, I never cease to be amazed at the amount of detailed research that has gone into th ..
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This is a very interesting, thought-provoking and, even, inspiring little book. Written by two Singapore-based American defence journalists, it is more objective in its a ..
These two fine books should be read sequentially in the above order. Apart from being excellent personal memoirs of a seagoing life from naïve Scottish deck cadet to cyn ..