The British Pacific Fleet – The Royal Navy’s Most Powerful Strike Force by David Hobbs. Published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2011. Hard cover, 462 pages plus B & W illustrations, ...
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Book Review: A Hard Fought Ship
A Hard Fought Ship, The Story of HMS Venomous. By Robert J Moore and John A Rodgaard. ISBN 978-0-9559382-0-7. Published by Holywell House Publishing, Portsmouth, UK. RRP is UK£18.99. It can ...
Book Review: Sydney – Cipher and Search
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: RN Navy List 1943
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: 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: 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: Warship 2005
Editor John Jordan. Conway Maritime Press, London W10 CSI’, UK. Sadly the founding editor of this excellent series, Antony Preston, passed away as this edition, the 27th volume, was going ...
Book Review: Flip Side War
Title: Flip Side War: Recollections of the author’s experiences in the RAN, World War II Author: Ean McDonald Publisher: Hesperian Press – Carlisle WA 6101 ISBN 0 85905 353 9 ...
Book Review: The Biography of Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN
Title: The Biography of Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN, Government Resident at Albany, Western Australia 1833 – 1839 (Napoleonic War naval hero and Australian pioneer) Author: Gwen Chessell, 2005, Publisher: ...
Book Review: Trafalgar – the Men, the Battle, the Storm
Trafalgar – the Men, the Battle, the Storm By Tim Clayton & Phil Craig London Hodder & Stoughton 2004. rrp $39.95. Reviewed by Bob Nicholls Once upon a time, not ...
Book Review: The Royal Navy in Australia 1900-2000
Title: The Royal Navy in Australia 1900-2000 Author: Ross Gillett and Vic Geoffrey Publisher: Maritime Books, Lodge Hill, Liskeard in Cornwall PL 14 4EL, United Kingdom. This is a remarkable pictorial history ...
Book Review: Who’s Who in Naval History: 1550 to Present
Who’s Who in Naval History: from 1550 to the Present By Alastair Wilson and Joseph F. Callo Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Oxon, 2004. Reviewed by LCDR Glen Kerr, RAN ...
Book Review: The Royal Navy-An illustrated Social History
The Royal Navy – An illustrated Social History 1870 – 1982 By Captain John Wells ISBN 0-905-778-308. Sutton Publishing Ltd. rrp $49.95 or GBP19.99 Reviewed by A. M. Downes When ...
Book Review: The Global Reach of Empire
The Global Reach of Empire By Alan Frost The Miegunyah Press the University of Melbourne, 2003. ISBN 0 522 85050 2 rrp $59.95. Reviewed by Bob Nicholls This is a ...
Book Review: Royal Navy Escort Carriers
Royal Navy Escort Carriers By Commander David Hobbs, MBE, Royal Navy Published by Maritime Books in UK Available at the Australian Maritime Museum bookshop at Darling Harbour. £19.95 (approx A$50 ...
Book Review: The Kellys
The Kellys – British J, K & N Class Destroyers of World War II By Christopher Langtree Published by Chatham Publishing, Kent, England Distributed in Australia by Peribo 58 Beaumont Street, ...
Book Review: Full Circle – Log of the Navy’s No. 1 Conscript
Full Circle: Log of the Navy’s No. 1 Conscript By John Gritten Cualann Press, ISBN 0 9535036 9 0. 6 Corpach Drive, Dunfermline, Fife, KY12 7XG Scotland. Reviewed by Ian ...
Book Review: Zeebrugge
Zeebrugge By Barrie Pitt Cassell Military Paperbacks. Allen & Unwin, Sydney. Pp. 230. Price $19.95 Reviewed by B.L. Cleary This is the 2003 edition of a book, first published in ...
Book Review: HMS Vanguard 1944 -1960 Britain’s Last Battleship
HMS Vanguard 1944 -1960 Britain’s Last Battleship By Neil McCart Published by Maritime Books. The book is available through Maritime Press on e-mail: www.navybooks.com Reviewed by Ross Gillett Britain’s last ...
Book Review: No Picnic
Title: No Picnic – An Account of the 1982 Falklands War by Author: Royal Marine Maj Gen Julian Thompson Publisher: Cassell. ISBN: 0-304-35647-6 This book, a revised edition of a ...