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Richard Hough (1922–1999)

Auteur de Captain James Cook

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Œuvres de Richard Hough

Captain James Cook (1994) 369 exemplaires
Mountbatten (1766) 136 exemplaires
The Great War at Sea, 1914-1918 (1983) 120 exemplaires
La flotte condamnée à mort. (1958) 91 exemplaires
Naval Battles of the 20th Century (1999) 51 exemplaires
Victoria and Albert (1996) 38 exemplaires
Admirals in Collision (1959) 37 exemplaires
The Children Who Stayed Behind (1964) 36 exemplaires
Racing Cars (1966) 34 exemplaires
The Great Admirals (1977) 31 exemplaires
Flight to Victory (1985) 24 exemplaires
The Perilous Descent (1952) 23 exemplaires
The blind Horn's hate (1971) 23 exemplaires
The Long Pursuit (1969) 22 exemplaires
Speed Six! (1956) 22 exemplaires
Buller's Guns (1981) 22 exemplaires
B Flight (1970) 21 exemplaires
You Can Save the Planet (2007) 21 exemplaires
A history of fighting ships (1975) 19 exemplaires
Razor Eyes (1981) 19 exemplaires
Buller's Dreadnought (1982) 17 exemplaires
Wings Against the Sky (1979) 16 exemplaires
Motor Car Lover's Companion (1965) 15 exemplaires
The fight of the few (1980) 13 exemplaires
Fighting ships (1969) 12 exemplaires
Nelson: A Biography (1980) 12 exemplaires
Target Island (1957) 11 exemplaires
Buller's Victory (1984) 11 exemplaires
Buzzbugs (1977) 11 exemplaires
Murder of Captain James Cook (1979) 10 exemplaires
BP Book of the Racing Campbells (1960) 9 exemplaires
Great auto races (1961) 8 exemplaires
Wings of victory (1980) 8 exemplaires
One boy's war (1975) 8 exemplaires
Nuvolari and the Alfa Romeo (1968) 6 exemplaires
Four wheel drift (1971) 6 exemplaires
Fast Circuit (1962) 5 exemplaires
BRITISH GRAND PRIX: A HISTORY (1958) 4 exemplaires
Airfield Man (1974) 4 exemplaires
The Battle of Jutland (1964) 4 exemplaires
The Battle of Midway (1970) 4 exemplaires
Rover Memories (1966) 4 exemplaires
Great motor races (1960) 3 exemplaires
Night of the Flood (Knight Books) (1959) 3 exemplaires
The fighter (1963) 2 exemplaires
Galapagos: The Enchanted Islands (1975) 2 exemplaires
Tricycle Tim 1 exemplaire
Nicks grote race (1979) 1 exemplaire
Wine Democracy (2022) 1 exemplaire

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FawknerMotoring | Jul 17, 2021 |
It took a very big scandal to produce this very small book.

In 1893, Vice Admiral George Tryon commanded the British fleet in the Mediterranean. That summer, during a series of maneuvers, he issued an order to the fleet which resulted in his flagship, the Victoria, being hit and sunk by the Camperdown, the flagship of his second-in-command. In addition to destroying a new, expensive ship, the collision cost the lives of about 350 of her crew.

Why? That was the issue that consumed the Royal Navy that summer. Why had Tryon issued an order that almost inevitably led to the collision of his two biggest ships -- which, indeed, potentially would have led to every other pair of ships in the two parallel lines of ships colliding.

No one knows the answer, because Tryon was one of those who died in the wreck. The inquiry and trial of the ship's captain couldn't figure out much, either; all it could do was honorably acquit Captain Bourke and cast a very jaundiced eye on Admiral Markham, the second-in-command who had allowed the Camperdown to sail on her collision course.

This book sets out the bare facts fairly well, but I couldn't help but wish it had told us more. For instance, a plan and detailed description of Victoria would have been nice. Instead, we get descriptions of her big guns -- but nothing about her secondary armaments, the construction of her watertight compartments, her seakeeping characteristics. We get descriptions of Admirals Tryon and Markham (the former much more favorable than the latter -- given that his subordinates seem frankly to have feared Tryon, I wonder if the description isn't overly flattering), but little about what it meant to lead a late nineteenth century fleet, or what the role of the Royal Navy was in the Mediterranean. Author Hough admits that he is left with a puzzle he can't solve. I'm sure he's right, but I wish he'd given me a few more pieces than this thin little 144-page un-indexed volume allows.

[Correction 8/3/2020: changed "un-indeed" in the last sentence to "un-indexed."]
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waltzmn | 3 autres critiques | Aug 2, 2020 |
The title of Richard Hough's book promises more than it delivers, for instead of providing a comprehensive coverage of the naval campaigns of the First World War he offers a study focused on the arms race involving dreadnought construction and the stalemated confrontation between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet between the start of the war and the battle of Jutland. While Hough's focus is understandable, it comes at slighting the myriad other aspects of the naval war: of the sixteen chapters, only five do not address either one of these two relatively narrow aspects of the war at sea. Yet Hough is an able writer who provides a gripping account of such events as the pursuit of Germany's Pacific Squadron or the battle of Jutland. Readers seeking an entertaining account of the naval war will not be disappointed by this book, though those desiring a more comprehensive analysis would be better served turning to Paul Halpern's superb [b:A Naval History of World War I|16720656|A Naval History of World War I|Paul G. Halpern|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386587161s/16720656.jpg|1607472].… (plus d'informations)
 
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MacDad | 2 autres critiques | Mar 27, 2020 |

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