Word: hough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE (212 pp.) -Richard Hough-Viking...
...ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports to the Sea of Japan, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. In this book London Editor Richard Hough tells how a fleet that should never have gone to sea made its way 18,000 miles to its rendezvous with death...
...Drawing on captured Russian letters and diaries, naval attaches' dispatches and newspaper accounts, Author Hough manages to move ubiquitously around the fleet and delivers a harrowing, heroic account of the battleships' most trying hours. "You wish us victory, but there will be no victory," mumbled Captain Bukhvostoff of the battleship Alexander III. "But we will know how to die, and we shall never surrender...
...RAINBOW COMES AND GOES (271 pp.)-Diana Cooper-Hough-ton M/Y-flin...
NAPOLEON'S RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (306 pp.)-Philippe-Paul de Ségur-Hough-ion Mifflin...