USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay: The Sinking of a Civil War Ironclad, Hardcover - David Smithweck

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In 1944 Allied codebreakers learned the Imperial Japanese Navy had dispatched the cargo submarine I-52 to occupied France with tons of military sup...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): David DoyleIllustration(s): 240+ colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensio...

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William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March ...

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