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Abbatiello, John J. Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats. London: Routledge, 2005, 2006, xv, 240 pp. Actually, only 1 confirmed sinking of U-Boat.
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Anglo-German; anti-submarine warfare; aviation; Royal Navy; U-boat; World War I;
Keywords:
anti-submarine warfare, submarine, U-boat, ASW, sonar , aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , world war 1, first world war, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia
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Abbatiello, John J. "Props and Periscopes: British Naval Aviation and the Anti-Submarine Campaign, 1917-1918." Ph.D diss, London, King's College, 2004. Under Andrew Lambert; (ASLIB 54-5239).
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20th C. (1900-1999); anti-submarine warfare; aviation; Royal Navy; submarine; U-boat; World War I;
Keywords:
aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, anti-submarine warfare, submarine, U-boat, ASW, sonar , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , 20th century, twentieth
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Abbott, John Stevens Cabot. The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones. New York: Dodd Mead, 1872, 1874, 359 pp.
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Jones, John Paul, united states navy, US navy
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Abranson, Erik. Sailors of the Great Sailing Ships. Macdonald Living History Series. London: Macdonald, 1977, 1978, 61 pp. Illus: Edward Mortelmans; trans (F); juvenile literature.
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age of sail, seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence , ship, boat, vessel
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Abulafia, David. A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994, xxii, 292 pp. Leader of European maritime activity; opened routes to Atlantic.
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age of sail; Atlantic World; commerce; expansion; Mediterranean Sea;
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age of sail, commerce, trade, business, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence
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Abulafia, David. The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008, 408 pp.
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15th C. (1400-1499); 16th C. (1500-1599); age of sail; Atlantic World; exploration;
Keywords:
age of sail, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , 15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Acerra, Martine & Meyer, Jean. Marines et Revolution. Rennes: Quest-France, 1988, 285 pp. General history.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; maritime history; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, Anglo-French, France , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, maritime history, naval history
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Ackland, H.K. "Churchill and the Naval Assault on the Dardanelles." 2 parts. Nav Rev, 86 (January & April 1998): 62-68 & 134-39.
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Churchill, Winston; Gallipoli; Mediterranean Sea; World War I;
Keywords:
Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , Gallipoli, Gallipoli campaign, Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , world war 1, first world war
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Adam, Frank. Henscherin der Meere: Die Britische Flotte zur Zeit Nelson. Hamburg: Koehlers, 1998, 345 pp. Early version of next entry.
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age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Nelson, Horatio, historian, history, historical, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adam, Frank. Hornblower, Bolitho and Company: Krieg unter Segeln in Roman und Geschichte. Frankfort: Ullstein, 1987, 1992, 204 pp. Survey of nautical fiction concentrating on Royal Navy, 1775-1815; Forester, Hardy, Kent, Parkinson, Pope, Woodman, Maynard, O'Brian, Styles, Forrest, Meacham & Meredith; tables of time periods when fictional seamen operated.
Categories:
age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , historian, history, historical, Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adams, Bill. Ships and Memories: The Story ot the Years the Author Spent on the Four-Masted Barque Silberborn, Running to Oregon and San Francisco as Told in His Famous Book, Ships and Women which Is Reproduced in Full. . . . with 150 Photographic Illustrations of Ships He Knew 40 Pen-and-Ink Sketches by W.M. Birchall. Brighton, 1975, xxx, 449 pp. Out of Liverpool.
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19th C. (1800-1899); age of sail; art; memoir; ship; voyage;
Keywords:
age of sail, art, painting, painter, artistic, design , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , voyage, ship, boat, vessel, 19th century, nineteenth
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Adams, Henry. "Inauguration of the Trafalgar Way 2005." Nel Dis, 9 (April 2006): 94-100. Feature of Bicentennial "New Trafalgar Dispatch Project"; route of Lt. Lapenotiere of HMS Pickle, Falmouth to Whitehall; inaugurated August 2005; special Ordnance Survey Map.
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19th C. (1800-1899); 21st C. (2000-); cartography; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical
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Adams, Lestyn. Brothers across the Ocean: British Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Anglo-American "Special Relationship," 1900-1905. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005, 282 pp. Credit to Foreign Minister Lord Landsdown; key issues: Alaska, Panama Canal & Venezuela.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Anglo-American; diplomacy; Latin America; Special Relationship; World War I;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Special Relationship, Anglo-American relation, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, world war 1, first world war, Latin America, South America, Spanish colonial area
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Adams, Ralph James Quincy & Poirier, Philip P. The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-1918. London: Macmillan; Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1987, xviii, 295 pp. No compulsion in Britain during 19th century; major debate in Parliament when resumed during 1st World War; further debate over priorities &, eventually, extention to Ireland; decisive, but neglected, issue in development of politics in Britain; Priorier died in 1979, Adams completed.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Anglo-Irish; conscription; recruitment; World War I;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, conscription, conscript, draft, mandatory service, recruitment, recruiting, recruit, recruitment, recruit, recruiting, conscription, conscript, draft, mandatory service, Anglo-Irish, Ireland, Eire, world war 1, first world war
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Adams, Ralph James Quincy, ed. The Great War, 1914-1918: Essays on the Military, Political and Social History of the First World War. Texas A&M Military History Series, # 17. College Station: Texas A&M UP; London: Macmillan, 1990, vii, 195 pp. 10 essays, some cited; symposium, Texas A&M, 4-5 April 1988; various assessments by experts.
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general history, general survey, survey, world war 1, first world war
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Adams, Ralph James Quincy. Balfour: The Last Grandee. London: Murray, 2007, 479 pp. First Lord; major new biography; sympathetic.
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20th C. (1900-1999); First Lord; Imperial Defence; Middle East; personality; World War I;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, First Lord, civilian head of Admiralty , world war 1, first world war, personality, prominent leader, noted person , Middle East, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence
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Adcock, Arthur St. John. Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea. London: Simpkins Marshall, 1916, x, 99 pp.
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expansion; Royal Australian Navy; Royal New Zealand Navy; World War I;
Keywords:
Royal Australian Navy, Australia , Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand , world war 1, first world war, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony
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Addis, Charles P. "In Warspite at Jutland." Naval Review, 73 (April 1985): 131-33.
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Anglo-German; battles; Jutland; Royal Navy; ship; World War I;
Keywords:
battles, Jutland, battle, peninsular , Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel, world war 1, first world war, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia
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Addison, Paul. Churchill: The Unexpected Hero. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005, 2006, xii, 308 pp. Full & balanced coverage of a 90-year career; Churchill, twice First Lord & Prime Minister; "former naval person"; "Special Relationship" only special one way, U.S. dominated, & Churchill at fault.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Anglo-American; Churchill, Winston; First Lord; Royal Navy; Special Relationship; World War I; World War II;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , First Lord, civilian head of Admiralty , Royal Navy, Britain, England, Special Relationship, Anglo-American relation, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war
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Adkin, Mark. The Trafalgar Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. London: Aurum; Ithaca: McBooks, 2005, 560 pp. Folio, 200 illustrations; for Nelson, coverage of Calvi, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, the funeral & memorials; descriptive, not analytical; not scholarly; earlier, The Waterloo Companion, 2001.
Categories:
age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; memorial; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
Keywords:
age of sail, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, memorial, heritage, tradition, bicentennial , Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
Abbreviations | |
AHR | American Historical Review |
Alb | Albion |
alt | alternate |
Am Nep | American Neptune |
AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
comp | Compiled by |
DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
EcHR | Economic History Review |
ed | editor or edited by |
EnHR | English Historical Review |
HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
His Res | Historical Research |
His Tod | History Today |
Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
IHR | International History Review |
intro | introduction |
J Am His | Journal of American History |
J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
JBS | Journal of British Studies |
J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
J Wor His | Journal of World History |
MM | Mariner's Mirror |
Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
NMM | National Maritime Museum |
Nav Rev | Naval Review |
NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
NIP | Naval Institute Press |
Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
P & P | Past and Present |
Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
trans | translated by |
UP | University Press |
USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
War & Soc | War and Society |
War in His | War in History |
W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
WSS | World Ship Society |