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The Life and Times of Admiral Sir Jock Slater

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No Uncertain Sound. The Life and Times of Admiral Sir Jock Slater. By Peter Hore. Porto Press. ISBN: 9781849956130. Reviewed by Desmond Woods OAM...

Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-1945

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Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-1945. By Ermanno Martino. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2025. ISBN 978-1-0361-3352-8 (Hardback). ISBN 978-1-0361-3353-5 (ePub) Reviewed by David Hobbs An English-language version of a...

French Aircraft Carriers 1910 – 2000

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French Aircraft Carriers 1910 – 2000. By John Jordan & Jean Moulin. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2025. ISBN 978-1-0361-2453-3 (Hardback)                                                                                 ISBN 978-1-0361-2454-0 (ePub). Reviewed by David...

Australia’s Naval Alliances. Lessons in History

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Australia’s Naval Alliances. Lessons in History. By John Seymour. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2025. Additional Review by Tim Coyle John Mortimer recently reviewed Australia’s Naval Alliances in...

Too Many Ships Too Late

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Too Many Ships Too Late; The Emergency Fleet Corporation and Its Redundant Armada. By John Henshaw. McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson North Carolina...

Ghost Below

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Ghost Below. By Steven Carruthers. Hardcover, 366 pages. Bluewater Press, NSW. $64.95. Reviewed by Tom Lewis The raid by midget submarines on Sydney Harbour has become...

Australia’s Naval Alliances – Lessons of History

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Australia’s Naval Alliances – Lessons of History. By John Seymour.Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2025. Reviewed by John Mortimer The author has an extensive legal...

On Board the USS Boise in World War II

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On Board the USS Boise in World War II. The battles and Secret Missions of Light Cruiser CL-47. By Ian S Bertram. McFarland and...

China’s Quest for Military Supremacy

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China’s Quest for Military Supremacy. By Joel Wuthnow and Phillip Saunders. Polity Press, 2025. 256 pages. $69.95 Joel Wuthnow’s and Phillip Saunders’s China’s Quest for...

Australia’s Coastal War

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The latest book from military historian Tom Lewis is a weighty work of just over 500 pages. Australia’s Coastal War brings together all the...