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This is a physically large book, just over 1.6 kg, and from a couple of authors I’ve not come across before, but looking at their profiles on Amazon, I’d guess that they know their subject. – Cosentino is a retired Italian Naval Commodore.Due to the size and weight of the book, I found it...
David Smith (Author), Graham Turner (Illustrator)Finally, a history book from an era that I know a little something about, though my knowledge is mainly centred on Europe during WW1.This is a small book running just short of 100 pages which seems to be on par for Osprey books of this series...
A relatively slim (160 pages) volume that appears to be incredibly well researched and populated generously with some very good pictures, adequate notes, bibliography and references.My knowledge of both World Wars is limited to the JMB ‘O’ level syllabus of the early 70s, which loosely...
An extremely well researched and comprehensive read, but, it is a weighty tome indeed. This account covers just about everything to do with Naval intelligence you could think of, personnel, incidents, codes, ciphers and general intelligence gathering.There is a brief account of the early...
“Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang" is an excellent book about life for the WW1 troops, and contains exactly what it says - on the tin!! For research into the humble foot-slogger of the era - as opposed to the usual officer’s viewpoint given in the common letters home to mater and pater -...
'Dawn off the Foreland - the young flood making/Jumbled and short and steep -
'Black in the hollows and bright where it's breaking -/Awkward water to sweep.
'"Mines reported in the fairway,/"Warn all traffic and detain.
'" 'Sent up Unity, Claribel, Assyrian, Stormcock, and Golden Gain."'...
Rear Admiral Goldrick brings to the story insights as a seaman that no landsman could possibly achieve, and is able also to draw on his own Command experience. He is no mean researcher, as shown by his extensive references and bibliography. Consequently what we get is a truly comprehensive...
'They were not rated too young to teach,
nor reckoned unfit to guide
When they formed their class on Helles' beach
at the bows of the "River Clyde"'
Kipling, 'The Scholars'...
St George's Day 2018 marks the centenary of the attempt by a British force under Rear Admiral Roger Keyes to block the ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend. Britain was on the verge of starvation due to the depredations of Germany's submarines; her desperate situation called for desperate measures...
This is four stories skilfully woven together. The backdrop is the story of RN antisubmarine warfare in the Western Approaches and Irish Sea during the First World War. Within this it is the biography of Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly who ran the campaign from Queenstown (now Cobh), consolidating under...
A small group of volunteers are endeavouring to re-create the crew lists of all of those at the Battle of Jutland on the 151 Royal Navy ships.A sailor is only confirmed to have been at the battle when his service records or other sources are checked and it is identified that he was on a...
Commander Hobbs, after service as a Fleet Air Arm pilot with several hundred deck landings to his log book, for many years ran the FAA Museum at Yeovilton, and has published several works on naval aviation. He is thus exactly the right person to compile this history of the RNAS' gestation and...
Sundodgers and skimmers alike might be interested in a new novel that has just been published on the successful submarine campaign in the Dardanelles in 1915. The first 3 submarine VCs were won there. The Custom of the Trade is currently only available as an e-book, but will be available in...
This is a biography of Vernon Kell (1873-1942), founder of MI5 and its director for more than thirty years (rather than a history of MI5 per se). It was compiled by his widow in the late 1940s, but this account has only now been brought to light by his great granddaughter, Caroline Coverdale...
Royal Naval First World War history often throws up reference to the Dover Patrol, and it has become part of the background scenery to stories such as the attacks on Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918. There is a sense that it was a well-established and going concern throughout the war from the...
This is an interesting book. I was unsure as to the exact scope of the work from the title when it popped through the letterbox, but I’ll do my best to put it into concept.Basically this book is a series of edited short essays, mostly written by academics and researchers in the WW1 area. It’s...
This is the third of eight volumes of facsimiles of truly elegant water-coloured line drawings of British naval vessels from Victorian times to 1939.The RN built a lot of cruisers and Perkins had to split this part of his work over two volumes. This one covers the second half of cruiser...
A series of letters and diary entries written by the Honourable William Fraser on his experiences in the battles of Ypres during the first World War. By the end of the war he had attained the rank of Temp. Lieutenant Colonel, he had also been awarded the Military Cross, 3 awards of the...
Held in the West by vast Allied sacrifice on land, but with Russia collapsed in the East, what finally brought Germany to her knees in 1918, her navy to mutiny and her army to defeat was shortage and starvation resulting from four years of blockade by the Royal Navy’s Northern Patrol. This is...
Introduced and explained by John Grehan, this is a reprint of two books, now gathered into in one volume:1. ‘The Truth about Jutland’, by Rear Admiral JET Harper, 1927 (90pp) and2. ‘The Jutland Scandal’ by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, 1933 (145pp).Harper, then a Captain, was tasked in 1919...