Given the frustratingly slow rate of warship production nowadays, it is probably difficult to comprehend that the American “military industrial” complex launched more ..
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BOOK REVIEW | “Go Find Him and Bring Me Back His Hat”: The Royal Navy’s Anti-Submarine Campaign in the Falklands/Malvinas War
This brief but very valuable book describes the realities of allegedly “state-of-the-art” anti-submarine activities during the Falklands War in 1982 when Britain’s ..
BOOK REVIEW | Pearl: December 7, 1941
This well-researched and very well-written book offers probably the best overall summary available of the military, economic and diplomatic events leading to the Japanese ..
BOOK REVIEW | Narvik: The Struggle of Battle Group Dietl in the Spring of 1940
A most interesting and important book. It was first written in German in 1958 and very competently translated into English in 2020. World War II history enthusiasts will ..
BOOK REVIEW | Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15
This is an excellent example of a, fortunately, fast-growing publishing genre. That is the very personalised but accurate histories of World War II that have, so to speak ..
BOOK REVIEW | On Her Majesty’s Nuclear Service
This fine book was reviewed here as a hardback last year. It has now been re-published in more affordable and transportable paperback format. The author retired as a ..
BOOK REVIEW | War in the Fast East: Japan Runs Wild 1942-1943
The first volume of the trilogy of which this is the second was excellent. This volume is, if anything, even better. Brilliantly researched and enhanced by numerous ..
BOOK REVIEW | Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing
Anthony Wells is uniquely well qualified to have written this fascinating and very educational book. Commencing his career at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, he soon ..
BOOK REVIEW | Operation Rising Sun: The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Submarine I-52
This is a fascinating book from numerous points of view, history, technology, human behaviour, intelligence, oceanography, warfare, research, archaeology and ..
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BOOK REVIEW | The Longest Campaign – Britain’s Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939-1945
It was a very long campaign indeed and this first rate book covers it in considerable detail. Effectively, it is an operational history that records a great deal of what ..