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Book SynopsisIn 1942 Norman Hanson learnt to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots it also proved to be a lethal weapon.Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desparate and determined enemy, Kamikaze attacks and the ever-present dangers of flying off a pitching carrier deck, death was never far away.Brought to life in vivid, visceral detail, Carrier Pilot is one of the finest aviator's memoirs of the war; an awe-inspiring, thrilling, sometimes terrifying account of war in the air.

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Book SynopsisAnthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstanding mathematician, Joan was the daughter of an Anglican priest and the granddaughter of the Archbishop of Melbourne. Having been recruited by GC&CS at the beginning of the war, Joan stayed with what then became GCHQ until well past retirement age. She worked on the unmasking of Philby, Burgess and Maclean, and on the decryption of intercepted Soviet communications during the Cold War. For ten years she lived 'very quietly' surrounded by the technology of the Cold War and the Early Warning systems installed on the east coast of Scotland, only to return to GCHQ in the early 1960s to take up a new position at Cheltenham, as though nothing had happened during the intervening years. Portrayed by Keira Knightley in the Hollywood film The Imitation Game, in reality Joan Clarke was the quiet woman of British Security; a role she played for forty-five years.Table of ContentsForeword. Clarke Family Tree. 1 Lambeth Conference 1. 2 Lymington in the New Forest 11. 3 Aunt and Grandfather 21. 4 Growing Up in the Shadows 31. 5 HMS Gleaner and U-33 43. 6 HMA Griffin and VP2623/Polaris 53. 7 Operation Claymore 62. 8 The Fourth Rotor and U-559 72. 9 Operation Overlord 82. 10 Eastcote GCHQ 92. 11 Alan Turing and a Proposal 102. 12 Crail and the Cold War 112. 13 Medals and Numismatics 122. 14 Cheltenham and Oxford 132. 15 Publishing the Secrets 142. 16 The End Game 148. Footnote 158. Appendix A Notable Persons 161. Appendix B Selected Documents 170. Appendix C Family Photographs 176.

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Book SynopsisThe Classic Account of the Battle of Britain

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Book SynopsisLike Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century.Table of ContentsPreface, The Editors Introduction, Iriye Akira I.Military Visions and Revisions 1. Study Your Enemy: Russian Military and Naval Attaches in Japan - Wada Haruki 2. Miscalculating One's Enemies: Russian Intelligence Prepares for War - Bruce Menning 3. Differences Regarding Togo's Surprise Attack on Port Arthur - Aizawa Kiyoshi 4. Between Two Japano-Russian Wars: Strategic Learning Re-appraised - Yokote Shinji 5. Military Observers, Eurocentrism and World War Zero - David Jones 6. Approaching Total War: Ivan Bloch's Disturbing Vision - Tohmatsu Haruo II.The Home Front 7. Japan Justifies War by the "Open Door": 1903 as Turning Point - Kato Yoko 8. Riding the Rails: The Japanese Railways Meet the Challenge of War - Steven Ericson 9. Japan's Monetary Mobilization for War - Ono Keishi 10. Patriotic Recession: Kyoto Responds to War - Takemoto Tomoyuki 11. Why Did Japan Fail to Become the "Britain" of East Asia? - Tadokoro Masayuki 12. Unsuccessful National Unity: The Russian Home Front in 1904 - Tsuchiya Yoshifuru III.The Cultural Prism 13. Shifting Contours of Memory and History, 1904-1980 - Chiba Isao 14. White Hope or Yellow Peril?: Bushido, Britain and the Raj - Hashimoto Yorimitsu 15. Natsume Soseki's Nuanced Views of the Conflict - Tsukamoto Toshiaki 16. Serial War: Egawa Tatsuya's Tale of the Russo-Japanese War - Kitamura Yukiko IV. Regional Relations during and after the War 17. A Damocles Sword?: Korea's Hopes Betrayed - Ku Daeyeol 18. The War and US-Korean Relations - Kim Ki-jung 19. The "Eastern Miscellany" Informs the Chinese Public - Li Anshan 20. Qing China's Northeast Crescent: The Great Game Revisited - Nakami Tatsuo 21. Portsmouth Denied: The Chinese Attempt to Attend - Hirakawa Sachiko 22. The "Rat Minister": Komura Jutaro and US-Japan Relations - Tosh Minohara

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