Gough barry introduction (8 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Fair.

paperback. Condizione: New. *NEW* paperback. Fresh from a distributor with no price tags and no remainder marks.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 364 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo, xxiii, 372 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth, gold print; slight shelf wear to rear panel. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait. Originally published: London : Chapman and Hall, 1852. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column DD. 1414694. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Softcover book in near fine condition and as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. In reality this book looks like it hardly been used or read. First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley. 301 pages, plus several pages showing charts/maps, all intact and nice tight binding. Tiny mark to side edge of papers, like a small thumb mark. These thought provoking studies, by arguably the twentieth century's finest naval historian, together form an arc that spans the years from one naval crisis in WWI to another in the war that followed. The first essay is a stimulating reappraisal of the naval attack on the Dardanelles in 1915, the success of which would have perhaps knocked Turkey out of the war and made the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that followed completely unnecessary. Marder then goes on to elucidate what the Royal Navy did and not learn from the First World War and how that influenced the conduct of the Second. His analysis of the 1935-6 Ethiopian Crisis, which looks at whether military aggression can be countered by sanctions, is particularly pertinent today, while "Winston is Back" is a compelling defence of Churchill after his return to the Admiralty. The last and major part of the book is a study of the dreadful task undertaken by Force H to shell and sink the French warships at Oran in 1940, to keep them out of German control; using recollections from both sides this is a particularly gripping and horrific narrative. …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. revised edition. 496 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. For fifteen years after the end of the war all official Admiralty records showed the German submarine U 110 as sunk on 9 May 1941 by the surface escorts of convoy OB.318. As this book was the first to reveal, this was a deliberate deception, as the U-boat was actually captured and its contents fully investigated before being allowed to sink a day later, a fact skilfully kept from even the survivors of the submarines crew. As the official historian of the naval war, Roskill had followed the party line when writing his authorised account, but provoked by exaggerated claims concerning a US Navy capture of a U-boat in 1944, Roskill decided to set the record straight. His narrative is prefaced by brief coverage of previous submarine captures by the Royal Navy three Italian and one German before covering the U 110 operation in great detail, underlining the skill and bravery of those involved.We now know that the reason for the secrecy was that the U-boat gave up valuable codebooks, charts, ciphers and, most significantly, a complete and undamaged Enigma machine. At the time of the books first publication, Ultra was still a secret, so Roskill (who clearly knew about it) had to be discreet about the exact details of what was taken from the submarine while insisting on its crucial value to the war effort. However, a new introduction puts the capture into context, making clear its vital importance in the history of allied codebreaking in World War Two. Ref A5 2.…

Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo, 2 Volumes. In Very Good plus condition. Dark aqua marine and navy spine with gilted lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear, an old pricing sticker on the rear board of Vol. 1, spine of Vol. 1 has a pencil mark in the center, and mild wear along head and tail of spines on both volumes. Textblocks have blue ribbon book markers and mild age-toning along edges, Vol. 1 has indents on tail corners of pages ix-xii, and bends along the tail corners of pages xiii-xxx. CONTENTS: Vol. 1, xxx, 243 pages - Vol. 2, xviii, 344 pages. Shelved ND-C. 1380104. FP New Rockville Stock.…