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  • British Cruisers

    Two World Wars and After

    by Norman Friedman ...
    "An extraordinarily detailed account of the development of Royal Navy cruisers . . . a towering work" from the author of Fighting the Great War at Sea ( Warship 2012).For most of the twentieth century, Britain possessed both the world's largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighters Over the Fleet

    Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

    by Norman Friedman ...
    A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s.This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighting the Great War at Sea

    Strategy, Tactic and Technology

    by Norman Friedman, George Zambellas ...
    Winner of the John Lyman Book Award for Naval and Maritime Science and Technology. "A compelling and convincing historical analysis of World War I." —Navy NewsWhile the overriding image of the First World War is of the bloody stalemate on the western front, the overall shape of the war arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about access to worldwide resources, most ... Read more

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  • British Destroyers

    From Earliest Days to the Second World War

    by Norman Friedman, A D Baker ...
    A history of the early days of Royal Navy destroyers, and how they evolved to meet new military threats.In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest, exponents of sea power.Not ... Read more

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  • Naval Firepower

    Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

    by Norman Friedman ...
    An in-depth history of naval battleship firepower from before World War I to the end of World War II, by America's leading naval analyst.For more than half a century, the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a "firing solution" ... Read more

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  • British Destroyers & Frigates

    The Second World War & After

    by Norman Friedman, A D Baker ...
    "A comprehensive survey of the design history and development of the Royal Navy's greyhounds of the sea."— WARSHIPS MagazineSince World War II, the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically different "Tribal" class destroyers of 1936. It deals with the development of all the modern destroyer classes that fought the war, ... Read more

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  • The British Battleship 1906-1946

    by Norman Friedman ...
    The British battleship is one of the most intensely studied of all naval topics, but it is also among the most popular. Norman Friedman is one of the most highly regarded of all naval writers, with an avid following for his work. Therefore, a new book on British battleships by Friedman is a major event, and has been eagerly awaited ever since knowledge of the project began to circulate among ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Cruisers of the Victorian Era

    by Norman Friedman, A D Baker ...
    "This magnificent book reinforces Norman Friedman's unparalleled reputation as a peerless author of maritime topics."— Australian Naval InstituteGradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define—but for the sake of this book, historian Norman Friedman takes as a starting point Iris and Mercury of 1875. They were the ... Read more

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  • Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery

    by Norman Friedman ...
    A winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature gives "an excellent overview of the problems involved in shooting at airplanes from ships." ( Coast Defense Journal).This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery—it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing ... Read more

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  • British Submarines in Two World Wars

    by Norman Friedman ...
    An "indispensable" guide to the Royal Navy's submarines through 1945, with numerous photos and original plans ( The Naval Review).The Royal Navy didn't invent the submarine—but in 1914, Britain had the largest submarine fleet in the world, and at the end of World War I it had some of the largest and most unusual of all submarines—whose origins and designs are all detailed in this book. During the ... Read more

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  • British Submarines in the Cold War Era

    by Norman Friedman ...
    The first comprehensive technical history on the subject, with photos: "A must-read for all professionals, designers and scholars of modern submarines." —Australian Naval InstituteThe Royal Navy's greatest contribution to the Allied success in World War II was undoubtedly the defeat of the U-boat menace in the North Atlantic, a victory on which all other European campaigns depended. The underwater ... Read more

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  • British Battleships of the Victorian Era

    by Norman Friedman, David R Higgins ...
    This is a companion volume to Friedman’ s highly successful _British Battleship 1906–1946_ and completes his study of the Royal Navy’s capital ships. Beginning with the earliest installation of steam machinery in ships of the line, the book traces the technological revolution that saw the introduction of iron hulls, armour plate, shell-firing guns and the eventual abandonment of sail as auxiliary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus