TY  - BOOK
AU  - HILL J R (ed.)
AU  - RANFT B (ed.)
TI  - The Oxford illustrated history of the Royal Navy
SN  - 0192116754 (hbk.)
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
KW  - ROYAL NAVY
KW  - UNITED KINGDOM
N2  - The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, in a series of fourteenchapters, provides a thorough and engaging treatment of these histories, covering every aspect of naval history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the dawn of the new millennium.The book explores:Major action and campaigns - the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland, the Atlantic Campaign of 1939-45, the Falklands conflict, the Gulf War, and attacks on terrorist bases in Afghanistan in 2001.With a full chronology, which has been brought up to date to the end of 2001, an extensive list of further reading, 16 pages of colour plates, 23 maps, 6 special Action Station diagram 'box' features, and around 200 black-and-white integrated illustrations, this is an authoritative and highlyreadable account of a unique fighting service and its people
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