H-Bombs and Hula Girls: Operation Grapple 1957 and the Last Royal Navy Gunroom at Sea 9781910500682, 1910500682

H-Bombs and Hula Girls tells the extraordinary tale of ten bright and cheerful young British midshipmen who were part of

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H-Bombs and Hula Girls: Operation Grapple 1957 and the Last Royal Navy Gunroom at Sea
9781910500682, 1910500682

On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Na

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As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens’, and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout h

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Soldier by instinct, sailor by fate... The relationship that defined a career – and saved a nation The Navy almost finis

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A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted

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The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war,

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*Includes pictures This wonderfully illustrative publication provides a comprehensive and informative history of the Ro

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If you're in an aircraft that crashes in the ocean, or in a boat that sinks far from shore, could you survive? Bein

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Rebellious fanaticks -- If the rebels should pay us a visit -- I fear nothing -- That rebel is my brother -- Heaven has

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