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RN cruiser designers were in the interwar period trying to balance conflicting requirements. The RN needed to balance numbers of... -
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What if the Washington naval treaty of 1922 had allowed the British Royal Navy to keep its prior two power standard and build the Nelson...
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vimes reacted to allanpcameron's post in the thread Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2. with Like.
This is a bit out there, but I think it just about works Allan.
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1 June 1942. Damascus, Syria. General Henri Dentz, High Commissioner of Levant and GOC-in-C Levant Forces of the Vichy Regime watched...
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vimes reacted to Xx_Pro_State_Exam_xX's post in the thread Which One Did it Better? (Axis Victory) with Like.
Fatherland: what probably would have happened Man in the high castle: what people thought would have happened
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vimes reacted to Tangles2's post in the thread Alternate Battle of Jutland - 1916 (The Battle of the Battlecruisers.) with Like.
Part Six 1736, 22 July 1916, HMS Southampton, North Sea, 220 miles from Rosyth Rear Admiral Napier was quite happy wearing two hats...
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Part Five 1602, 22 July 1916, North Seas, Flagship of Battlecruiser Force, HMS Lion. Vice Admiral Beatty, still remaining on the...
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Part Four 1400 22 July 1916, Skagerrak, North Sea, 250 nautical miles from Rosyth The routine investigation of a Danish steam trawler...
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vimes reacted to Parmenion's post in the thread A winter in Smolensk, a sixth coalition TL with Like.
Napoleon was more attentive during the lead up to the second day of battle around Borodino. The scale of losses had been made more clear...
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Russian troops continued to advance slowly south and west in Mamchuria, against heavy Japanese opposition. They...
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vimes reacted to Tangles2's post in the thread Alternate Battle of Jutland - 1916 (The Battle of the Battlecruisers.) with Like.
Part Three The Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak) 20-23 July 1916 Vice Admiral David Beatty found himself resisting an urge to pace the...