Through planning for a war against Japan the Royal Navy was able to test its readiness for a future war and many lessons learnt during this period were ultimately put to good use against a different foe in 1939.

Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the world. But with the League of Nations seeming to offer a solution to all future conflicts, a country weary of war and without an obvious enemy there seemed no need for a large battlefleet. The strategic focus shifted eastwards, to Japan, with its growing battlefleet as the new threat to the British Empire and to the Royal Navy's supremacy.

From 1924 a strategic plan, War Memorandum (Eastern), was written and refined. The plan called for the Royal Navy, still the...

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People's Republic of China.

Delving deep into the world of cabarets, nightclubs, and elite ballrooms that arose in the city in the 1920s and peaked in the 1930s, the book assesses how and why Chinese society incorporated and transformed this westernized world of leisure and entertainment to...

My book views the real estate business as an adventure and prepares the would-be adventurer for what might lie in store for him or her. "Rich Like Me" is a captivating guide for real estate adventurers of all kinds-from beginners to pros. It is especially relevant to today's depressed markets, where the greatest opportunities abound. Just because the markets are depressed, you don't have to be. "Rich Like Me" is a merry romp through a very serious business. One thing "Rich Like Me" is not, is a get-rich-quick book. I don't pretend to offer any magic formulas; what the book does do is offer...