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Naval aviation in the Second World War : rare photographs from wartime archives /Philip Kaplan. "The first aircraft carriers made their appearance in the early years of World War I. These first flattops were improvised affairs built on hulls that had been laid down with other purposes in mind, and it was not until the 1920s that the first purpose-built carriers were launched, but no-one was as yet clear about the role of the carriers and they were largely unloved by the 'battleship admirals' who still believed that their great dreadnoughts were the ultimate capital ships. World War II changed all that, At Taranto, Pearl Harbour, and in the North Atlantic, the carrier, the ugly duckling of the world's navies, proved itself to be the dreadnought nemesis. As the tide of war turned, the fast attack carriers of the U.S. Navy spearheaded the counter-attack in the Pacific while the makeshift escort carriers helped to seal the fate of the German U-boats in the Atlantic. The carrier, and naval aviation, thus emerged into the post-war world as the primary symbol and instrument of seapower; it would play a crucial role in the strategic encirclement of the Soviet Union and enabled western airpower to be rapidly and effectively deployed in areas of conflict as remote as Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands and the Gulf. Kaplan describes the adventure of the young American, British, and Japanese naval aviators in the Second World War. It is an account of their experiences based on archives, diaries, published and unpublished memoirs, and personal interviews with veteran naval airmen of WWII, providing a vivid and often hair-raising picture of the dangers they encountered in combat and of everyday life aboard an aircraft carrier. It considers some of the key aspects of the WWII naval aviator's combat career, such as why it was that only a tiny minority of these pilots - those in whom the desire for aerial combat overrode everything - accounted for such a large proportion of the victories. In the major carrier actions of that conflict, from the Royal Navy's attack on Taranto which crippled the Italian fleet in 1940, to the Japanese carrier-launched surprise attack on U.S. Navy battleships and facilities at Pearl Harbour in 1941, to the carrier battle of Midway in 1942, and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot of 1944, through the Japanese Kamikaze campaign against the U.S. Carriers in the final stages of the Pacific war, this book takes the reader back to one of the most exciting and significant times in modern history."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.7"1939/1945"

Essential essays / Stuart Hall ; edited by David Morley. "From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays - a landmark two volume set - brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance. Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies focuses on the first half of Hall's career, when he wrestled with questions of culture, class, representation, and politics. This volume's stand-out essays include his field-defining 'Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies;' the prescient 'The Great Moving Right Show,' which first identified the emergent mode of authoritarian populism in British politics; and 'Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse,' one of his most influential pieces of media criticism. As a whole, Volume 1 provides a panoramic view of Hall's fundamental contributions to cultural studies. Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with 'Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,' which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 301

The pursuit of sodomy : male homosexuality in Renaissance and enlightenment Europe /Kent Gerard, Gert Hekma, editors. "Historians Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma make available - for the first time to an English-speaking audience - the best, most recent work on the history of male homosexuality in Early Modern Europe. The role of the male homosexual - during the pivotal era of 1400 to 1800 - is thoroughly explored. A wide-ranging group of authors offers relevant and fascinating material on sexual history and sexuality, in general, and on homosexuality and European history, in particular"--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.76/62/094

Nicholas Pocock 1741-1821 : a selection of his marine works from the collections of the National Maritime Museum / National Maritime Museum. 1975. Pearsall, Alan 1975 • PAMPHLET • 14 copies available. 061.43(083.83)

The Commissioned sea officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815 / annot. by C. G. Pitcairn Jones. Jones, C G Pitcairn 1979. • FOLIO • 27 copies available. 359(42)(083.812)

The Caird collection of maritime antiquities Callender, Geoffrey, 1933-1937 • FOLIO • 31 copies available. 069(26:421.6)

About ourselves. • JOURNAL • 113 copies available.

Family Tree Magazine • JOURNAL • 188 copies available.

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