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Book Review: Nelson to Vanguard

Gillett, Ross · Mar 30, 2001 ·

Title: Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 Author: D.K. Brown Publisher: Chatham Publishing Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 is the final volume in a three ...

Book Review: Atlantic Odyssey

Book reviewer · Sep 1, 1999 ·

Title: Atlantic Odyssey Author: Michael Thwaites Publisher: Self-published This is a fascinating account of a little-known aspect (in Australia at least) of the Battle of the Atlantic, seen through the ...

Book Review: H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History

Book reviewer · Mar 24, 1998 ·

Title: H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History Author: Ray Parkin, The Miegunyah Press, 467pp, $150 (2 vol. boxed set). For years I have had three heroes in the ...

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Book Review: King of the Australian Coast

Book reviewer · Mar 7, 1998 ·

Title: King of the Australian Coast. Author: Marsden Horden Publisher: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press In 1813 James Byrne crossed the Blue Mountains. James who? Byrne did, but we ...

Book Review: Where the Hell is Africa?

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Jun 24, 1996 ·

Title: “Where the Hell is Africa?” Author: Philip Seymour Publisher: self-published “The Laws of the Navy”, a collection of verses reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling’s “Laws of the Jungle”, was written around ...

Book Review: Mutiny on the Bounty

Book reviewer · Dec 11, 1991 ·

The Story of Captain William Bligh, seaman, navigator, surveyor and of the BOUNTY mutineers State Library of New South Wales 1991, Five authors, plates in col & b&w, Ind, 104 ...

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