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What would you do if you were settling down for a quiet bedtime story and you realised that a crocodile had fallen into your storybook and was - not to put too fine a point on it - furious? Would you slam that book shut, cram it in the bookshelf for evermore or would you be brave enough to peek? ...

In the revolution that affected warship design between Waterloo and Wamar, the Royal Navy is often depicted as resisting every change until it was too late. This history challenges those assumptions, looking at technical factors affecting change in the first half of the 19th century.

This is a large format paperback edition of one of Anthony Browne's most popular picture books, Gorilla. It is the classic tale of a lonely girl, a friendly gorilla and their amazing night out.

Willy the chimp is lonely, until he bumps into a gorilla called Hugh Jape. Soon a touching friendship grows between the two. Willy can read to Hugh, and Hugh can save little Willy from the attentions of Buster Nose.

This encyclopaedic work covers all the major naval weaponry of World War II. Weapons of earlier vintage which were employed during the war, and those that were at an experimental, trial or design stage in 1945 are also included.