Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Some good used books that I just bought...

Went to a sale at the library where they get rid of old books. Here are some interesting things.

Ships of the Royal Navies, Oscar Parkes, 1936, with photos and a description of various classes.

American Civil War Navies: A bibliography, 1972.

Born in Battle, Israel’s Air Force, David Eshel, 1978.

Proud Waters, Ewart Brookes, 1954; this is the story of Royal Navy minesweeping efforts in WWII. I found this quote from the book interesting.

“The Germans laid 126,00 mines in European waters; sweeping them cost us 327 minesweepers and 4600 men and officers.”