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US NAVY DESTROYER ESCORTS OF WORLD WAR II by MARK LARDAS
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The US Navy's smallest oceangoing warship of World War II, destroyer escorts first went into production for the Royal Navy, which needed a capable but quick-to-build naval escort. Once America unexpectedly entered the war, the US Navy found itself short of escort warships, and the destroyer escort was r ...Show more
US Navy Armored Cruisers 1890-1933 by Brian Lane Herder; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A new history of the large, fast, and long-ranged armored cruisers of the US Navy, and the roles that these warships played in the fleet as America developed into a great naval power. At the dawn of the "Steel Navy" era, the rapidly expanding US Navy's fleet of capital ships consisted not only of battl ...Show more
US Navy Gunboats 1885-1945 by Brian Lane Herder; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The history of the US Navy's gunboats, their roles in building a worldwide American naval presence and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-resp ...Show more
US Patrol Torpedo Boats - World War II by Gordon L. Rottman; Tony Bryan (Illustrator); Peter Bull (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s, and the vessels first saw service during World War I. However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of the Patrol Torpedo or PT boat. The PT boat was designed for attacking larger warships with torpedoes using ...Show more
Vehicles of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-45 by Gavin Mortimer; Henry Morshead (Illustrator); Irene Cano Rodríguez (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The Long Range Desert Group was one of the most famous special units of World War II, operating heavily modified vehicles deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence and support the raids of David Stirling's new Special Air Service.When war broke out, a pre-war explorer and army officer, Ralph Bagnol ...Show more
Vietnam Riverine Craft, 1962-75 by Hugh Johnson; Gordon L. Rottman
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The southernmost region of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) encompassed the vast Mekong River Delta, and area covering 10,190 square miles. Three major rivers run through the Delta, the Song Hou Giang (aka Bassac) and the Song Mekong, which broke into three large rivers (Song My Tho, Ham Luong, a ...Show more
Warships in the Baltic Campaign 1918-20 - The Royal Navy Takes on the Bolsheviks by Angus Konstam; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A fascinating look at the British naval intervention in the Baltic in 1918-20, and at the British, Soviet and Baltic nationalist fleets that fought.Following the Russian Revolution of October 1917, the Baltic states became a battleground between Russian Reds and Whites, German troops and emerging Baltic ...Show more
Warships in the Spanish Civil War by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
This detailed study of the naval Spanish Civil War describes how the Spanish Navy, torn in two and comprising a Republican and Nationalist part, fought a civil war at sea involving both Hitler's and Mussolini's navies. In July 1936, a pro-fascist coup orchestrated by General Franco tore Spain apart and ...Show more