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Book Review: Moving Bases

Book reviewer · Mar 5, 2008 ·

Moving Bases – Royal Navy Maintenance Carriers and MONABS (Mobile Naval Air Bases). By Commander Davis Hobbs, MBE, RN (Rtd). Maritime Books, Lodge Hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4EL This is ...

Book Review: The War for All the Oceans

Book reviewer · Mar 5, 2008 ·

The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo. By Roy and Lesley Adkins. Reviewed by Graeme Andrews   This is an unusual book ...

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Book Review: Across the Sea to War

Book reviewer · Mar 5, 2008 ·

Across the Sea to War. By Peter Plowman. Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd (2003). ISBN 1877058 06 8 Reviewed by Sandy Saunders An interesting publication which describes in great detail the ...

Reminiscences about the wartime activities of HMAS Australia

A.N. Other · Dec 12, 2007 ·

Being an anonymous reminiscence about the wartime activities of HMAS Australia, first published in the collection entitled HMAS 1945, published by the Australian War Memorial. In the three years of ...

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Book Review: The Plimsoll Sensation

Book reviewer · Dec 4, 2007 ·

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea. By Nicolette Jones. Published by Abacus Books 2007. ISBN  978-0-349-11720-1. Reviewed by Sandy Saunders This book chronicles, in great ...

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