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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Portsmouth Navy Week 1936
Author: Portsmouth Navy Week, in Aid of Naval Charities, August 1st & 3rd to 8th 1936
Author: Navy Week CommitteeThe Navy in Peace and War. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works of Art. Portsmouth Navy Week ... August, 1936
Author: Navy Week Committee (Portsmouth)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Portsmouth Dockyard Through Time
Author: Philip MacDougallPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445663996
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Portsmouth Dockyard has changed and developed over time.
Exhibiting War
Author: Jennifer WellingtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108509339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture with the past, Australia and Canada came to see it as engendering national birth through violence. Narratives of the war's meaning were deliberately constructed by individuals and groups pursuing specific agendas: to win the war and immortalise it at the same time. Drawing on a range of documentary and visual material, this book analyses how narratives of mass violence changed over time. Emphasising the contingent development of national and imperial war museums, it illuminates the way they acted as spaces in which official, academic and popular representations of this violent past intersect.
Portsmouth Navy Week 2nd to 9th August, 1930
Author: Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939
Author: Andrew FieldPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714653211
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
To understand why British naval policy in the Far East was so unsuccessful when the Japanese entered World War II, the author takes the reader back to the end of World War I and examines the roots of British naval strategy.
The Portsmouth Dockyard Story
Author: Dr Paul BrownPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750989572
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King John's galleys to servicing the enormous new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers: this is the story of Portsmouth Dockyard. Respected maritime historian Paul Brown's unique 800-year history of what was once the largest industrial organisation in the world is a combination of extensive original research and stunning images. The most comprehensive history of the dockyard to date, it is sure to become the definitive work on this important heritage site and modern naval base.
The Cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845-1847
Author: Joseph T. DowneyPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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The End of Glory
Author: Bruce TaylorPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
There have been many fine books written on HMS Hood, the glory of the Royal Navy, while television and cinema have also taken the subject to their heart. No book, however, has ever offered the combination of in-depth research and thrilling narrative to be found in The End of Glory. For twenty years Hood symbolised the Royal Navy during the twilight years of the British Empire before, in 1941, being destroyed in seconds by the battleship Bismarck, a catastrophe that shattered the morale the British public. For those who manned her, however, she was both a home and a fighting platform, and this new book, through official documents as well as the personal accounts and reminiscences of more than 150 crewmen, offers a vivid image of the face of naval life and the face of naval battle. A brilliant behind-the scenes exposé of a warship in peace and war, it not only paints an intimate picture of everyday life but deals with any number of controversial issues such as the Invergordon mutiny, escapades ashore and afloat, the Christmas mutiny of 1940 and the terrible conditions onboard in war. This coverage, based on so many original sources, makes for a truly compelling story which neither historian, enthusiast nor general reader will find easy to put down.