Submarine Hunter – Fairey Gannet in Service with the RAN Fleet Air Arm. By Zbigniew (‘Ben’) Patynowski. Mushroom Model Publications, Redbourn (UK), 2008. 248pp. Profusely illustrated (b&w and colour) ISBN: ...
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Book Review: Mururoa Protest
Mururoa Protest The story of the voyages by HMNZ Ships Otago and Canterbury to protest against the French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in 1973. By Gerry Wright. ISBN ...
Book Review: Flinders Year 1947
Book Review: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1805-1810
Storm and Conquest. The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1805-1810. By Stephen Taylor. Published by Faber and Faber Review by John Smith The Battle of Trafalgar was not the finale ...
Book Review: Cochrane the Dauntless
Cochrane the Dauntless. The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane. By David Cordingly. Published by Bloomsbury and available from Allen and Unwin Book Publishers This is yet another biography of ...
Book Review: Calls to the Deep
Calls to the Deep – The Story of Naval Communications Station Harold E Holt, Exmouth, Western Australia By Brian Humphreys. Available from Australian Aviation/Phantom Media, PO Box 1777, Fyshwick, ACT, ...
Book Review: Moving Bases
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 Review: Across the Sea to War
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 ...
Book Review: The Plimsoll Sensation
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 ...
Book Review: RN Navy List 1943
Book Review: A Very Rude Awakening
A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour. By Peter Grose Allen & Unwin Reviewed by Tim Duchesne On 31 May 1942, three cruisers, ...
Book Review: The Royal Australian Navy – a History
The Royal Australian Navy – a History Edited by David Stevens, published by Oxford University Press. First published in 2001 as a hardback version, reprinted several times and so well ...
Book Review: The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, RN
The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy. By Peter Ashley. Published by Pierhead Press, England. rrp A$22.00. Reviewed by Dave Rickard The author, Peter Ashley, has spent nearly four decades ...
Book Review: Shadow Voyage – Escape of the SS Bremen
Book Review: Beneath Southern Seas – The Silent Service
Beneath Southern Seas – The Silent Service by Jon Davison and Tom Allibone. Published by UWA Press. rrp $65.00 Reviewed by Tim Duchesne Some might think this glossy doorstop of ...
Book Review: Japanese Submarine Raiders – 1942
Japanese Submarine Raiders – 1942. A Maritime Mystery. By Steven Carruthers. Caper Publications Pty Ltd, Narrabeen. ISBN 0-9775630-0-4. Hard cover, 264pp Reviewed by Sandy Saunders Being a comparative newcomer to ...
Book Review: The Rattlesnake
The Rattlesnake by Jordan Goodman. Published by Faber and Faber 358 pages, illustrated.ISBN 1 5712 1973 2 Reviewed by Graeme Andrews. Who was Owen Stanley that he could get a ...
Book Review: Captain Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker
A Man of Intelligence – The Life of Captain Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary By Dr Ian Pfennigwerth, Captain, RAN (Rtd) Reviewed by LCDR Ron Robb, RAN (Rtd) This book ...
Book Review: A Man of Intelligence -The Life of Eric Nave
A Man of Intelligence – The Life of Captain Eric Nave, Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary. By Dr Ian Pfennigwerth, Captain, RAN (Rtd). Publisher Rosenberg Publishing P/L, Dural, 2006. Reviewed by LCDR ...
Book Review: Forgotten Fleet 2
Forgotten Fleet 2 By Bill and Ruth Lunney Forfleet Publishing, Medowie NSW 2318. ISBN 0 9751683 0 4. rrp $50.00 plus $8.00 p&p. Available from the publisher at 7 Wade ...
Book Review: Compass
Compass by Alan Gurney W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005. rrp A$30.00 Reviewed by Tony Howland In the year 1552, one John Hamilton wrote ‘a skipper can not guide ...
Book Review: Jack Aubrey triple pack
Jack Aubrey Commands – An Historical Companion to the Naval Work of Patrick O’Brian By Brian Lavery Patrick O’Brian’s Navy – The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey’s World Richard O’Neill ...
Book Review: The Voyage of HMS Herald 1861
The Voyage of HMS Herald 1861. By LCDR Andrew David RN. Miegunyah Press, (The Miegunyah Press is an imprint of Melbourne University Press). This is the authoritative account of one ...
Book Review: A Merciful Journey
Merciful Journey – Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man – by Marsden Hordern – The Miegunyah Press – imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Ltd., 2005. The distinguished ...