The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, remains one of the defining moments in naval history. The decisive nature of the engagement, the death of Nelson and the outpouring of national grief in the aftermath have inspired a wealth of literature on the battle and many narratives have retold this famous action.
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"Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction - and did. (All but three of the Marines' victories required the complete annihilation of the Japanese defending force.) As sco…
Challenging assumptions about Churchill's role as a strategist and an historian, the author examines how Churchill's strategic conception and decisions were formulated, how those decisions affected the course of the two World Wars, and to what extent his books on the wars are reliable histories.
Eighteen true tales of escape from prisoner of war camps in World War II. Men captured in war, deprived of purpose as well as liberty, naturally think of escape. In the Second World War, with vast numbers held in captivity for years, escape was extraordinarily frequent, though escape to freedom inevitably less so
Sheds new light on the vital importance of the Australian role in supporting maritime campaigns in every theatre through essays on the Australian experience in naval war written by 16 leading naval histories from Australia and overseas