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Pt. 1. Setting the scene. Introduction: an anatomy of the face of naval battle / John Reeve

Operational command at sea / Andrew Gordon

pt. 2. Aspects of the face of naval battle. Western advisors and Chinese sailors in the 1894-95 Sin-Japanese War / Bruce Elleman

The commander in crisis: Graf Spee and the German East Asian Cruiser Squadron in 1914 / Peter Overlack

Sailors and seaborne soldiers in the defense of Australia, 1914-2001 / Russell Parkin

The treatment of casualties from the Sydney-Emden action / Michael Dowsett

The aircraft carrier: the experience of its conception, procurement and operation / David Hobbs

The Second World War, Korea and Vietnam: a personal perspective on naval warfare / Guy Griffiths

Aboard HMAS Hobart in the Java Sea area in 1942 / Gordon Johnson

'The gunner': J.E. Macdonnell and the face of naval battle / Peter Stanley

US submarines at war: the recollection of motor machinist's mate Thomas R. Parks, USN / David Jones

The strain of the bridge: the Second World War diaries of Commander A.F.C. Layard, DSO, DSC, RN / Michael Whitby

The pursuit of realism: British anti-submarine tactics and training to counter the fast submarine, 1944-52 / Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones

Command at sea in war and peace: an Australian experience during the Gulf War and after / Lee Cordner

pt. 3. The warrior and his foe. The faceless foe: perceptions of the enemy in modern naval battle / David Stevens

Stress in war: the warrior's confrontation with the spectre of death / Colin Wastell

The face of the future naval battle / Peter Jones.

Navies > Personnel management.