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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire
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Tuesday, 3 January 2017
War at Sea 1917: An Ominous New Year's Day
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1917 was to mark a turning point not just in World War 1, but in world history, for it saw not only the outbreak of the Russian Revolution ...
Friday, 30 December 2016
Retrospective 2016: a Baker’s Dozen from a year of blogging
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The year now slipping away was an active one for me as regards blogging, the publication of the 5 th Dawlish Chronicles novel, Britannia...
Tuesday, 27 December 2016
The Vega Expedition and the North-East Passage 1878-79
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I recently enjoyed one of the two best books I’ve read this year: “In the Kingdom of the Ice –The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the US...
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Friday, 16 December 2016
1916 Illustrated – a German Perspective
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Note equal prominence given to the German (L) and Austro-Hungarian (R) eagles As we come to the end of the year that is th...
Friday, 9 December 2016
HMS Pulteney and the Spanish Xebecs 1743
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There have been many blogs on this site dealing with actions in the Age of Fighting Sail that involved only a few vessels, in many cases tw...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016
The Loss of the Russian cruiser Pallada, October 1914
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The illustration below is from a German WW1 part-work, published monthly, in this case in 1914/15. It is an artist’s impression of the destr...
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