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The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period
Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much …
Imperial Defence, 1868-1887
The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch …
India-China Maritime Competition
This edited volume critically examines the concept of the “security dilemma” and applies it to India–China maritime competition. Though frequently employed in academic discussion …
The Road to Oran
On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at …
German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888
This book is a comparative study of the evolution of the German navy in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the development of strategy, especially …
The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century
This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations …
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, …
Greek Naval Strategy and Policy 1910-1919
A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these …
The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons
This work examines British thinking about nuclear weapons in the period up to about 1970, looking at the subject through the eyes of the Royal Navy, in the belief that this can …
The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 1935-1940
Robert Mallett argues that the Duce's aggressive war against the Mediterranean powers, Britain and France, was to secure access to the world's oceans. Mussolini actively pursued …
Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia
This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries …
The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 1942-1947
After the bitter lessons of German self-disarmament in 1919, Britain was far more alert and focused when it came to overseeing the disarmament of Germany's naval forces after World …