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In the United States there has been a wide divergence of views on the role of France's Navy in World War II. Koburger's study discusses the history of U.S. dealings with Vichy France, especially in the French Antilles and St. Pierre et Miquelon.

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His conclusion: the United States must develop tactics and weapons that will win wars in the narrow seas.

Narrow Seas, Small Navies, and Fat Merchantmen examines the impact of these small navies on the ships, planes, and tactics of big navies.

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In the Post-Cold War Era, the possibility of large-scale military conflict between the superpowers has been replaced by the probability of a series of minorand perhaps not so minorregional ones.

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This text on maritime Djibouti describes the geography, naval history and present strategic role of the country, and indicates its possible future. Topics covered include French covert action in Italian East Africa, and the Allied blockade of Djibouti in 1941-42.

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Previous books written about naval warfare in the Baltic from 1939 to 1945 focus only on single navies, while the role of smaller secondary players--the Finnish, Danish or Swedish navies--tends to be ignored. It is these challenges that this book seeks to emphasize, challenges which the U.S. Navy will now face.

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Second, the book aims to demonstrate in an interesting fashion what naval warfare in the narrow seas is really like.

Koburger demonstrates that there was a definite Allied strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean during World War II.

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Koburger argues that the many battles that constituted the campaign for the Solomons were the key to victory in the Pacific for the U.S. Navynot the battle of the Coral Sea or the Battle of Midway. The descriptions of the naval battles make for compelling reading.

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The core of the new U.S. strategic concept is power projection, and it envisions naval forces directly leading Army and Air Force elements to influence events ashore, most probably in the Third World.

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Steel Ships, Iron Crosses, and Refugees documents the German navy's role in the Baltic, including the final epic amphibious lift in the Baltic and the world's two largest maritime disasters.

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The naval side of the First World War in the Adriatic provides a classic case study in narrow sea warfare.

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The first and only scholarly book in English about the French Navy during the reign of the Vichy government, The Cyrano Fleet is a revisionist study presenting the French version of the events of 1940 through 1942.

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This narrative history of the French Navy in Indochina from 1945 to 1954 draws on recently published French language sources, as well as English sources, to create a detailed, highly readable account of the critical first ten years of the 30-year war in the maritime crossroads of Southeast Asia.

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After Italy's surrender to the Allies in September 1943, German naval forces took control of the entire Aegean, and the resulting guerrilla war in the narrow seas and littoral waters would continue to rage until the general peace.