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A celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on
history, development, and service of the world's warships. For 45
years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design,
development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring
a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished
international contributors, this latest volume combines original
research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and
much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and
research with which Warship has become synonymous. Detailed and
accurate information is the keynote of all the articles, which are
fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.
The varied topics in this year's annual includes articles on the
Imperial Japanese Navy carriers Soryu and Hiryu, post-war radar
development in the Royal Navy, gunboats in the Imperial German
Navy, Soviet battleship designs of the early Second World War,
modern European frigates, and the origins of the Yokosuka naval
yard.
A memoir of life as an adventurer and sailor in the Mediterranean,
by the noted naval historian. Ernle Bradford spent his twenty-first
birthday in Egypt, serving in the Royal Navy during World War II.
It was there that he came across the profoundly affecting words of
Anton Chekhov: "Life does not come again; if you have not lived
during the days that were given to you, once only, then write it
down as lost." After the war, Bradford married and settled in
London, but the mandate of those words inspired him and his wife to
quit their jobs, sell their home, and sail to France in their small
ship Mother Goose. The Journeying Moon chronicles their adventures
as they travel through Europe and the Mediterranean. From the
people of Malta who believed Bradford was a spy from MI5, to his
interactions with the Sicilian Mafia, Bradford tells the charming
and vivid tale of his days as a true adventurer.
The River Thames Book, now in its seventh edition, is the
best-selling guide to the non-tidal Thames from Teddington to its
source in Gloucestershire. This complete guide covers the Barrier
to Cricklade with the River Wey, Basingstoke Canal and the Kennet
& Avon Canal to Great Bedwyn. Chris Cove-Smith's updated text
describes the navigation with support of clear and detailed
mapping. The River Thames Book also lists in exhaustive detail the
facilities to be found along each section of the navigation.
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