At war, at sea : sailors and naval combat in the twentieth century
Ronald H. Spector
Bok · Engelsk · 2002
| Omfang | xiv, 463 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Tsushima, May 1905 -- "The supreme influence of the human factor" -- "The cat's whiskers" -- "The biggest sea battle that has ever been" -- "Something not quite right within" -- "The most formidable thing" -- "Look upward to the skies" -- "Essentially and fundamentally a different profession" -- "The zenith of effort and the nadir of hope" -- "Never in all my years had I imagined a battle like that" -- "Scared as hell, having a wonderful time" -- "From Newfy to Derry's a bloody long way" -- "The haves and the have-nots" -- "My grave shall be the sea" -- "The really battle-worthy capital ship" -- "Strictly a secondary and collateral task" -- "The hitherto unlikely scenario.". - "From the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 to the Gulf War in 1991, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every facet of twentieth-century naval warfare. Drawing from more than one hundred diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews, this is, above all, a masterful narrative of the human side of combat at sea -- real stories told from the point of view of the sailors who experienced it"--Page 4 of cover.
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| ISBN | 9780140246018
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