Книга на английском языке a fascinating look at the british naval intervention in the baltic in 1918–20, and at the british, soviet and baltic nationalist fleets that fought. following the russian revolution of october 1917, the baltic states became a battleground between...
Книга на английском языке for more than 30 years the nile river gunboat was an indispensable tool of empire, policing the great river and acting as floating symbols of british imperial power. they participated in every significant colonial campaign in the region, from the...
Книга на английском языке in 1941, the imperial japanese navy (ijn) went to war with a marginal anti-submarine warfare (asw) capability. this was a lamentable state of affairs for a nation dependent upon imports to sustain its war economy. there were only a few purpose-built...
Книга на английском языке faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the soviet union in the early days of the cold war, and with the recent memory of the kamikaze threat from world war ii, the usn placed a great priority on developing air...
Книга на английском языке superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of south america's war of the pacific. in the late 19th century, a war erupted between chile and peru, the catalyst...
Издание на английском языке the book is dedicated to the unusual naval battle off the commander islands, which took place during world war ii. she describes how this battle became a kind of relic of the past, when ships fought each other on the high seas, unlike the more...
Книга на английском языке. the world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the classical world. their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated since they allowed war to be carried to distant lands, allowing for the first time...
Издание на английском языке during the pacific war of 1941-45, arguably the most successful component of the imperial japanese fleet was its destroyer force. these ships were generally larger than their allied counterparts and were better armed in most cases. equipped with...
Издание на английском языке the imperial navy’s destroyer force played an important role in the pacific war. it was integral to the period of japanese expansion from december 1941 until may 1942, and then played a central role in the bitter battles around guadalcanal...
Книга на английском языке in november 1859, the french warship la gloire was launched. she was the world's first seagoing ironclad-a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad...
Книга на английском языке amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of britain's expeditionary campaigns since world war ii, from the suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as borneo (1963–66), the falklands (1982), sierra leone (2000) and...
Книга на английском языке from the launching of la gloire to the emergence of modern turreted battleships in 1875, this book offers a fascinating insight into continental europe's innovative and powerful ironclads. in november 1859, the french "ironclad" la gloire was...
Книга на английском языке the tiny new state of the united provinces of the netherlands won its independence from the mighty spanish empire by fighting and winning the eighty years' war, from 1568 and 1648. in this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in...
Книга на английском языке at the outbreak of world war i austria-hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. it was these fast light vessels, not the...
Книга на английском языке the period of relative peace enjoyed by the roman empire in its first two centuries ended with the marcomannic wars. the following centuries saw near-constant warfare, which brought new challenges for the roman navy. it was now not just patrolling the...
Книга на английском языке the humiliating ottoman defeats in the italo-turkish war of 1911 and the first balkan war of 1912-13 and poor performance of the small ottoman fleet compelled the new ottoman leadership to embark on naval expansion of some manner. the old “sick...
Книга на английском языке when the imperial japanese navy destroyed russia's battle fleet during the russo-japanese war, it marked the emergence of japan as one of the world's major naval powers. japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the ijn acquiring a...
Книга на английском языке this book examines all the us navy heavy cruisers built during and after world war ii. this includes the largest class of heavy cruisers ever built, the 14-ship baltimore class. of these, only seven were commissioned in time to see service during...
Издание на английском языке the book is dedicated to the british light cruisers that served in the royal navy during the second world war. it examines their development, design, armament and combat use. the author analyzes how economic and diplomatic constraints, such as...
Издание на английском языке the imperial navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships. of these, most were 5,500-ton ships designed to act as destroyer squadron flagships. this made the imperial navy’s light cruisers much...
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