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This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels ...
Though, for most participants, the First World War ended on 11 November 1918, the Royal Navy found itself, despite four years of slaughter and war ...
On the outbreak of war in 1914, the Royal Navy found it required more small craft than it possessed to carry out minesweeping, anti-submarine patrols ...
Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk ...
Wars are decided definitively through the occupation of an enemy's territory. This is a task for military forces, which may have to be transported ...
Few who hear the shipping forecast, with its familiar sequence of numbers denoting the expected force of the wind, know what lies behind the man ...
The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age. Seeing the potential for ...
In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designer Andrey Tupolev designed a series of advanced torpedo boats for the USSR. Superbly illustrated, this is their first ...
World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen ...
Revealing the pivotal role played by the QE2 in the Falklands conflict, by two of the volunteers who crewed the liner. When the QE2 entered ...
In grand ironic elegy, Jan Morris tells the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato, most powerful warship of World War II and climax ...
