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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter One: PRIVATEERS, ROYALISTS AND ROUNDHEADS
In the Service of King Charles
Oliver Cromwell's ‘Lusty Ship’
Pride and Joy of the Monarch
The Glorious Revolution
Chapter Two: THE SHIP THAT LOST AMERICA
The Victory' s Contemporary
Chapter Three: MUTINY AT SPITHEAD
At War With Revolutionary France
Chapter Four: NELSON TURNS A BLIND EYE
A Ball for the Admiral's Wife
His Indecision was Final
I really do not see the signal.
Chasing Down The Marengo
Chapter Five: BOMBARDING SEVASTOPOL
To Steam or Not to Steam?
At War With the Slave Traders
Chapter Six: AT WAR WITH THE KAISER
Going to War in an Obsolete Fleet
Young Midshipman Drage
London' s Coat of Many Colours
Spy Fever
A Sister Ship Explodes
The Sinking of HMS Formidable
Chapter Seven: RUNNING THE DARDANELLES
The Eastern Mediterranean Squadron
Landing the Anzacs
A Bitter Lesson in the Futility of War
The Tedium of Taranto
Austrian Saboteurs Destroy a Battleship
Chapter Eight: POLICEMEN OF THE EMPIRE
The Treaty Cruiser
Trouble in Cyprus
A Boy's Life
Turkish Stand-off
Playing Host to Il Duce
Rescuing the Nuns of Barcelona
Chasing Potato Jones
Chapter Nine: THE BISMARCK HUNT
Sneaking Out of Chatham
Search and Destroy
Cracking Enigma
Chapter Ten: THE KREMLIN DELEGATION
Friendly Invaders
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
White Hell
Chapter Eleven: THE TIRPITZ CHASE
Poor Relations
A Fleeting Chance
The Strain Begins to Show
Chapter Twelve: THE SHAME OF CONVOY PQ17
America Piles on the Pressure
The Wolves Gather
A Fool's Errand
On the Brink of Mutiny
Recriminations
Post Mortem
Chapter Thirteen: AN UNDESERVING SCAPEGOAT
An Admiral Leaves
An Artificer Joins
Tirpitz Remains in her Lair
Espionage off Spitzbergen
Chapter Fourteen: SURRENDER AT SABANG
Carrying the Stalingrad Sword
Striking Sumatra
Birth of the East Indies Fleet
Japan Capitulates
Chapter Fifteen: THE FINAL DAYS OF EMPIRE
Retired and Reprieved
Three Cruises
Chapter Sixteen: STORMING UP THE YANGTZE
Between a Rock…
The Communist Noose Tightens
Homeward Bound
Chapter Seventeen: THE LONG RETREAT
A Product of the Missile Age
Give That Man a Coconut
The Confrontation with Indonesia
The Withdrawal From Aden
‘Hands to Bathe’ in the Black Sea
Farewell to Malta
The Last Broadside
Missing the War
DLG Postscript
Chapter Eighteen: IN DANGEROUS WATERS
Bloodhound Becomes London
War Comes to the Rescue
Shadow Boxing With the Soviets
The Tanker War
Bold as Brass in the Barents
The Beginning of the End
Chapter Nineteen: SADDAM'S APOCALYPSE
Debts of Dishonour
A Multi-national Armada
Gulf Flagship
Warning Shots
Turning up the Heat
Exocet!
The Iranian Radar Shadow
The Battle of Bubiyan
Mines Claim Two Warships
The Iraqis Strike Back
A Vision of Hell
The Legacy of War
Chapter Twenty: THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
Home are the Heroes
The Hardliners’ Coup
Voyage Into Uncertainty
The Cold War Façade Crumbles
‘Torpedo!’
Into the Lair of the Bear
Chapter Twenty-One: KEEPING WATCH ON THE BALKANS
Saddam Remains Defiant
Missile Guard
Winning the Sword of Peace
The Final Commission
Axed Before Her Time
Pinochet's Arrest Lets in Romania's Bid
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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