Om Westland Wyvern jagerbombeflyet, som kun var i operativ tjeneste i kort tid fra maj 1953 til marts 1958 i Royal Navy. Indeholder en beskrivelse af flyet samt om piloter, tekniker og andres oplevelser med flyet under den korte tid flyet var operativt.
When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of i…
Beskriver det fra 2. verdenskrig kendte engelske Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm jagerfly Hawker Sea Fury samt såkaldte "survivors" deltagelse i vor tids Air Races.
Om udviklingen af den britiske flådes krigsskibe i perioden 1860-1906, rigt illustreret med samtidige fotografier af skibene.
Beretter om den teknologiske udvikling, der i tiåret efter 2. verdenskrig fandt sted inden for hangarskibsbaseret flyvning som følge af fremkomsten af jetfly.
The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of nav…
The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of nav…
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the national imagination. They were idealized as the heroic defenders of the nation, yet they were also stigmatized as brutish, misanthropic, and promiscuous. Naval officers described th…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century a burgeoning global private military sector is increasingly involved in areas of defence and security that, up until recently, were popularly thought of as being within the monopolistic preserve of the nation state. Finding itself at …
This dissertation analyzes the intersections between technological innovation, commercial expansion, and the practices of liberal governmentality in nineteenth-century Britain. After the Napoleonic Wars, the steamship began to replace sailing vessels for both commercial and mili…
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Beskrivelse af den britiske flådes ubåde under 1. Verdenskrig.
Ved afslutningen på napoleonskrigene i 1815 besad Storbritannien et ubestridt søherredømme på verdenshavene. Bogen gennemgår hvilken flådeorganisation, der var tale om, dennes basering og styrkeforhold til forskellige tider. Derpå følger præcise inddelinger i eskadrer og deploye…
Beskrivelse af de britiske Royal Marines i perioden fra 2. Verdenskrigs start og frem til 1993, herunder deres organisation, uniformer og deltagelse i forskellige konflikter. Hovedvægten er lagt på 2. Verdenskrig.
Beskrivelse af den britiske flådes uniformer i perioden 1790-1970.
