Rear-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee. Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Glasgow commanded by Captain John Luce which took part in both battles and ...
Milton Bradley (since acquired by Hasbro) launched a version of the game in the 1960s — ‘Battleship’ — with plastic pegs that ...
Epigraph from U.S. Navy Dept., Naval Warfare, Naval Doctrine Publication 1 (Washington, D.C.: 28 March 1994) [hereafter NDP-1 (date of revision)]. Julian Corbett ...
The Daily Mirror reports on the heavy losses the Royal Navy suffered when it engaged the German Fleet at the Battle of Jutland. Press Bureau, Friday 7pm, The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the ...
Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...
If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...