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Lädt ... Battleship Ramillies: The Final Salvo (2014. Auflage)von Ian Johnston (Herausgeber), Mick French (Herausgeber)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. So long as you keep in mind that that this book was mostly a final souvenir for the folks who kept the memory of the ship alive in its crew association, the more likely you'll be satisfied with it. There is one really good memoir of service in "Millie," as the ship was nicknamed, and that was by one Harry Staff. He was assigned to the battleship as she was leaving the dockyard in 1943, after repairs for the damage she took West of Suez at the hands of a Japanese mini-sub. Staff had a keen memory, or kept a really good surreptitious diary! What I really would have liked to have seen were memoirs of wartime service before that damage, but if they're not available that's the way it goes. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique - she was certainly the only ship in British naval history whose captain wore a grass skirt into battle (honoring a Maori belief that the ship would come to no harm while he did so; Ramillies survived the war). This book, produced with the full cooperation of the HMS Ramillies Association, is a tribute to the ship in words and photographs, deftly assembled from a combination of interviews with surviving crew members, and carefully researched diaries and written accounts by those connected with the ship, including HRH the Duke of Edinburgh for whom Ramillies was his first ship. Many personal photo albums were unearthed to provide previously unpublished illustrations, which add a further dimension to a vivid picture of naval life in an almost-forgotten era. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)359.8352Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Navy; Naval Science Military equipment and suppliesKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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