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Warspite
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The name Warspite has been carried by eight Royal Navy ships since the 1590s, and no other name in British naval history has won more battle honours. This account looks at all of them but gives most attention to the seventh, a super-dreadnought battleship built during the naval arms race before the First World War. Her career took her through the battle of Jutland, a mutiny between the wars, and campaigns across the Mediterranean and beyond in the Second World War. Personal testimony from men who served aboard her runs throughout. The book also considers the empire that built her and the moment she was finally scrapped.
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