Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England, which had trouble in Spain during the Peninsular Wars and never seems to have forgotten it, has been strongly suggesting the country as a made-to-order bridgehead and military base on the continent, "secure behind the Pyreness." Many military men disagree. Air and naval installations on the Iberian Peninsula would be under constant short-range bombing attack and exceptionally tough to supply; the Pyrenees are a poor barrier against airborne invasion, and nowhere near as impregnable as the Spanish like to think. Spain is fundamentally an unattractive place from which to flight a European war. There...
...brilliant young atomic scientist who feels that the only hope for peace is for the U.S. to share its atomic secrets with the U.S.S.R. Then, reasons the professor, war would prove annihilating for both sides. Carr has begun to pass information along to Communist agents when a U.S. Naval Intelligence squad catches him redhanded. Instead of arresting him as a traitor, they successfully appeal to him as a patriot. He helps them, at the cost of his life, to land a key Soviet...
Some such emotion has crept into the work of most biographers of Horatio Nelson, England's No. 1 naval hero. Even the U.S.'s precise, levelheaded Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan allowed the legend of Nelson to skew up the accuracy of his portrait. British Admiral Sir W. M. James (who spent 18 months during World...
...made the same port where other biographers have tied up. The Nelson who strides down the gangplanks of The Durable Monument is less legendary and more human than the Nelson of earlier biographies, but he is still the great captain of Britain's long and memorable naval history...
...Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna-until the moment he marched to the center of the stage and put on a priceless performance. The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities. Such naval details as supply, provision for his men, and overall shipshapeness were problems that he solved meticulously and with relish for every last detail...