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Small boats have been a threat to major navies from ancient times up to the Ukrainian mass suicide drone boat attacks against the Russian Black Sea fleet at Sevastopol in October 2022. The torpedo boat, a fast craft armed with a propelled high explosive warhead, was used to hold enemy navies at risk from the days of the American Civil War until it was supplanted by the missile boat during the Cold War era. These vessels exerted a powerful hold...

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The photos in this edition are black and white. The General Motors G-Body is one of the manufacturer's most popular chassis, and includes cars such as Chevrolet Malibu, Monte Carlo, and El Camino, the Buick Regal, Grand National, and GNX, the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, the Pontiac Grand Prix, and more. This traditional and affordable front engine/rear-wheel-drive design lends itself to common upgrades and modifications for a wide range of hig...

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This, the eleventh and final volume in this series, contains the following indexes, plus two bonus appendixes by noted naval scholar Richard Worth (FLEETS OF WORLD WAR II, Nimble 2011). Appendix U. Soviet Motor Torpedo Boats (Richard Worth) Appendix V. Successes Of Soviet Torpedo Cutters (Mine Warfare Not Included) Index of British MGBs Index of British MTBs Index of Commercial Vessels sunk by MTB, TKA, PT, MAS and S Boote Index...

This, the first volume in the author's definitive ten-volume illustrated history of the torpedo boat from 1585 to 1945, provides a narrative overview of major trends, naval objectives, and technological innovations.

This, the second volume in this ten-volume set, provides a complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat throughout the world, with seventy-five magnificent illustrations in a full-color interior. This is the first book to provide the history and color illustrations of the "Al Rammah" torpedo invented by that Syrian engineer in 1280 AD-a full three hundred years and thousands of miles from the beginnings of Europ...

This ninth volume in the series completes the detailed historical timeline of major events relating to motor torpedo boats of every nation in the world. Forty-four color and black & white images and more than 100 footnotes providing direct citations to every assertion of fact. Definitive and indispensable.

This, the third volume in this ten-volume set, continues its complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat in all navies and all oceans. This volume, which covers the period 1900 to August 1939, includes thirty-six illustrations and rare photographs in a full-color interior. The narrative covers the role of the torpedo boat at Tsushima, in World War I, in the interwar period, in the Spanish Civil War, and in many ...

This, the seventh volume in this ten-volume series, provides a global timeline of motor torpedo boat actions throughout the pivotal year 1943: PT boats, S-boats, MTBs, MAS boats, TKAs, and more. One hundred eighty-five footnotes providing authentication for every statement of fact. Full color interior with sixty rare photographs and maps covering every theatre of war from the South Pacific to the Arctic.

This eighth volume in the series provides a tabular, illustrated chronology of motor torpedo boat actions of every nation during the cataclysmic year of conflict that was 1944. More than ninety color and black & white images, more than 300 footnotes providing direct citations to every assertion of fact. Definitive and indispensable.

This, the sixth volume in this ten-volume set, continues its complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat in all navies and all oceans. This volume, which covers the year 1942, includes forty-six illustrations and rare photographs in a full-color interior. The narrative covers the role of the torpedo boat as the world convulsed in the decisive battles of 1942 in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Soviet Union...

This, the fourth volume in this ten-volume set, continues its complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat in all navies and all oceans. The full-color interior of this volume, which covers the period September 1939 to December 1940, includes twenty-five illustrations and rare photographs in a full-color interior. The global coverage includes stories and illustrations of torpedo boats from the navies of France, Ge...

This, the fifth volume in this ten-volume set, continues its complete timeline of significant events in the history of the torpedo boat in all navies and all oceans. This volume, which covers the year 1941--"the hinge of fate"--includes seventeen illustrations and rare photographs in a full-color interior. The narrative covers the role of the torpedo boat as World War II spread throughout Europe, Asia, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Medite...