A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader 0203504968, 0714651974, 0714684600, 9780203504963

Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life 9780674969315

William Halsey, the most famous naval officer of World War II, was known for fearlessness, steely resolve, and impulsive

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Tempestuous Genius: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher

No man ever made his mark on the British Navy the way that Lord Fisher did. While many of his contemporaries considered

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A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland 9780748630417

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748624317); Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast,

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Wings for the Fleet: A Narrative of Naval Aviation's Early Development, 1910-1916 9781682471432

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The Execution of Admiral John Byng As a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain 9781000381184, 9780367767556, 1968072272

According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to encourage the others'

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British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century 9781526736598

This major work is the first comprehensive account of how intelligence influenced and sustained British naval power from

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A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century 9780271030593

A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instantaneous st

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Destroyers, Greyhounds of the Fleet: Memoirs of a Naval Gunner in the Second World War 9781036112295, 9781036112318

A remarkable read, detailed, hour-to-hour and 'immediate' account of action, a personal but modest story, and

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The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon 9780755621934, 9781845110345

The image of Coventry in flames was one of the most haunting of the Second World War. Yet the excitement and optimism of

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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History 9781400865444

The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of

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