The first fleet - the creation of a nation. Bestselling Maritme Biographer, Rob Mundle, is back on the ocean with a bloc
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A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney wi
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Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Au
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; I. OPERATIONS ; 1. Profile of a Fleet; 2. Cruisers; 3. Submarines; 4. Destroyers; 5. Aircraft
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‘a superb piece of historical research and writing. … does justice to the role of the British navy in the Pacific during
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At the end of the 1870-1 Franco-Prussian war, the French Navy began to reconstruct its fleet, replacing old generation w
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The Mediterranean Fleet entered the 1930s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seekin
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Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predeces
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While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Medi
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