Senin, 12 Februari 2018

Military History Book Review: Battle of Surigao Strait

Battle of Surigao Strait by Anthony P. Tully, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2009, $27.95 For more than four centuries, the big gun reigned as the supreme arbiter of war at sea. Beginning in 1512, when Henry VIII commissioned the 1,500-ton warship Henri Grâce a Dieux —often referred to as “Great Harry”—the world’s navies concentrated on …

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