Sometimes poor quality-control can be as lethal as bad design – this was certainly true in the case of HMS Glatton.
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Read More »Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and
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Read More »The U-boat went down with all hands and has rested on the seabed, some 37km (23 miles) off the coast of Yorkshire,
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