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“norman friedman phd”

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  • The British Aircraft Carrier

    The Cold War and Beyond

    by Norman Friedman PhD. ...
    This richly detailed and heavily illustrated study traces the evolution of British aircraft carriers from World War II to the present, highlighting the Royal Navy’s critical innovations—including the angled deck and steam catapult—that made modern jet carrier aviation possible. Drawing on declassified British and U.S. documents, it reveals how British ingenuity preserved carrier capability through ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • The British Aircraft Carrier

    In Two World Wars

    by Norman Friedman PhD. ...
    The Royal Navy invented the aircraft carrier and most of the key innovations which have enabled carriers to remain effective, exploiting continuing changes in aircraft technology, from biplanes to supersonic jets. This work, in two volumes, tells (and explains) how that happened over more than a century of British carrier development, based largely on declassified official documents, both British ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Fighting the Great War at Sea

    Strategy, Tactics and Technology

    by Norman Friedman PhD. ...
    While 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 clearly seen in Germany’s desperate attempts to counter the American industrial threat, which ultimately drew the United States into the war. This radical new book ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Naval AntiAircraft Guns and Gunnery

    by Norman Friedman PhD. ...
    This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what Friedman’s Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery – it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It traces the growing aerial threat from its inception in WWI and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of WWII, highlighting in particular the underestimated danger from dive-bombing. The ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • British Cruisers of the Victorian Era

    by Norman Friedman PhD. ...
    Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • The British Battleship

    1906-1946

    by Norman Friedman PhD. ...
    Norman Friedman brings a new perspective to an ever-popular subject in The British Battleship: 1906–1946. With a unique ability to frame technologies within the context of politics, economics, and strategy, he offers unique insight into the development of the Royal Navy capital ships. With plans of the important classes commissioned from John Roberts and A D Baker III and a color section featuring ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    The First International Warship Building Competition

    by Leo Marriott ...
    "A quite enlightening book that discusses the most important group of heavy cruisers serving during WW2 and how the type evolved." — Malcolm Wright, author of British and Commonwealth Warshi p Camouflage of WWIIThe Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in World War II. In partic... ... Read more

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  • British Aircraft Carriers 1939–45

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 168 - New Vanguard
    With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s.In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal, its first-ever purpose-built aircraft carrier. This was quickly followed by others, including the highly-successful Illustrious class. Smaller and tougher than their American cousins, the British carriers were designed to fight in the tight confines of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The British Fleet Air Arm in World War II

    by Mark Barber ...
    Series Book 165 - Elite
    A concise history of the Royal Navy's air arm during World War II, from their Arctic convoys, to the battle of Malta, and the last raids on Japan.Amazingly, the Admiralty only had 406 operational pilots and eight carriers when war broke out, but a mere six years later there were over 3,000 operational pilots and 53 aircraft carriers patrolling the seas in every theatre of the war. This book charts ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Battle of the Atlantic

    by Donald Macintyre ...
    An eyewitness account of the fight for supremacy at sea during World War II, as told by a man who was in the thick of combat against Nazi Germany.The Battle of the Atlantic was an unremitting assault by enemy boats and aircraft against Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great Britain—and the vigilant defense against them made by the Royal Navy and other allied forces.Captain Donald ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stringbags in Action

    by B.B. Schofield ...
    Admiral Schofields accounts of the Taranto and Bismarck battles make for unforgettable reading.The author traces the development of British naval aviation from its early beginnings in 1912, through the First World War and the frustrations of the inter-war years. The November 1940 attack on the Italian fleet in its strongly defended base at Taranto demonstrated for the first time the battle-winning ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus