Category Archives: History

The Chinese Steam Navy by Richard N J Wright

22 April 2007 – 18:46

Richard Wright’s Chinese Steam Navy looks at the Chinese Navy from around 1860 through to 1945, the period that the Chinese first looked at expanding their navy with modern ships. The book covers the Sino-French War of 1884 and the Battle of Foochow in particular as well as the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 and the [...]

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Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1922-1946, editor, Roger Chesnau

14 April 2007 – 18:36

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1922-1946 is the third in the series by Conway, taking us from the end of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. Over this period, the Washington Treaty came into play, limiting capital ships. A rapid rearmament towards the middle and end of the [...]

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Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1906-1921, editor, Randal Gray

9 April 2007 – 18:04

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 is also one of my most used and viewed reference works at the moment (along with the other Conway’s and The China Steam Navy reviewed elsewhere). Conway’s is the most complete reference on ships from the end of the pre-Dreadnought period to the end of the First World [...]

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Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1860-1905, editor Robert Gardiner

5 April 2007 – 0:01

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1860-1905 is probably my most used and viewed reference work at the moment (along with The China Steam Navy reviewed elsewhere). Conway’s is the most complete reference on ironclad and pre-Dreadnought vessels in service from the American Civil War through to the Russian Japanese War of 1904-1905.
To read more [...]

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Korean War Memorial Museum

29 March 2007 – 23:08

The Korean War Memorial Museum notes about it’s raison d’être that “since the end of the Korean War many important war records have been disappearing and that generation [that fought in that war] has also been disappearing”. Korea was established through a number of struggles and the War Memorial Museum was proposed and built to [...]

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Korean War Era Photos

22 March 2007 – 9:08

Guano Island blog has some Korean War photos on show. These were taken by Guano Island’s father and there are a couple of interesting shots in there, one of an M4 in particular.
Worth having a look for the wargamers amongst us.
There is also a link on that blog to a Picassa online album that has [...]

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