@PeterGHore

Strategist, historian, biographer, obituarist

 England, United Kingdom
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Joined August 2015
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No Uncertain Sound, Jock Slater's life and times was launched at One Tree Books in Petersfield 10 December
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John Adair, leadership guru whose ideas shaped British armed forces in the Cold War – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

John Adair, leadership guru whose ideas shaped British armed forces in the Cold War

One senior officer remarked that all good leaders have followed Adair’s model, outlined in his seminal 1973 book Action-Centred Leadership

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Rear-Admiral Austin Lockyer, marine engineer and popular officer on the Royal Yacht Britannia – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

Rear-Admiral Austin Lockyer, marine engineer and popular officer on the Royal Yacht Britannia

He once came to the rescue when Field Marshal Montgomery turned up for a parade without his medals

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Latest Book Review, 11 November 2025 - The Naval Review naval-review.com/news-views/… No Uncertain Sound the life and times of Admiral Sir Jock Slater @royalnavy @RoyalMarines @navalhistorian @NavalHistWar @USNIBooks

Latest Book Review, 11 November 2025 - The Naval Review

https://www.naval-review.com/book-reviews/no-uncertain-sound-the-life-and-times-of-admiral-sir-jock-slater/

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Capt Paul Abraham, steely Cold War submariner who became Teacher of the Perisher course – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

Capt Paul Abraham, steely Cold War submariner who became Teacher of the Perisher course

Captain Paul Abraham, who has died aged 64, was a formidable, unflappable and distinguished Cold War submariner who spent much of his career operating beneath the waves in the High North, or training...

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Lt-Cdr Nick Cook, naval pilot whose plane was hit three times during the Korean War – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… Gifted pilot with dash and determination who flew 137 offensive sorties @FleetAirArmMus @RoyalNavy @navalhistorian @NavalHistWar

Lt-Cdr Nick Cook, naval pilot whose plane was hit three times during the Korean War

His report from the Korean War described him as ‘a gifted pilot with dash and determination who did extremely well in 137 offensive sorties’

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Capt Paul Abraham, steely Cold War submariner who became Teacher of the Perisher course – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… @RoyalNavy @RNSubMuseum

Capt Paul Abraham, steely Cold War submariner who became Teacher of the Perisher course

Captain Paul Abraham, who has died aged 64, was a formidable, unflappable and distinguished Cold War submariner who spent much of his career operating beneath the waves in the High North, or training...

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Lt-Cdr Clive Waghorn, Cold War submariner and intrepid polar explorer – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… Naval officer, nuclear submariner in the tradition of Scott and Shackletom

Lt-Cdr Clive Waghorn, Cold War submariner and intrepid polar explorer

Stuck in a blizzard for three weeks on South Georgia, they survived on quarter rations supplemented by Waghorn’s recipes for penguin

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst, who faced post-Cold War defence cuts – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst, who had to deal with post-Cold War defence cuts

With a razor-sharp intellect, Bathurst was a master of tactical and operational command as well as personnel management and logistics

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No Uncertain Sound : The Life and Times of Admiral Sir Jock Slater tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/… published on 10 December - available to pre-order now @RoyalNavy @RoyalMarines @navalhistorian @pinstripedline @NavalReview

No Uncertain Sound : The Life and Times of Admiral Sir Jock Slater

No Uncertain Sound by Capt. Peter Hore is a deeply researched and authoritative biography of Admiral Sir Jock Slater, one of the most influential figures in modern Royal Navy ...

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The Naval Historians' lunch is open to antiquarians, bibliophiles, publishers, researchers and writers of fiction and non-fiction, interested in the field of naval history and whether experts or amateurs.
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There are a few places undersubscribed to fill the last table at the Naval Historians' Lunch on 23 October. This year the lunch marks the centenary of the birth of the founder, journalist and historian, Tom Pocock. Lunch is £90, applications to me.
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Ronnie Scott, Anglo-Argentine who joined the Fleet Air Arm in 1942 and flew Spitfires – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… @RoyalNavy @ARGinUK @unionargentina @faaoa

Ronnie Scott, Anglo-Argentine who volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm in 1942 and flew Spitfires

‘Flying a Spitfire was touching the sky with your hands. The body was crushed against the seat – the aircraft took you wherever you wanted’

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Tim Cannon, engineer in the nuclear sub Warspite whose actions in a fire averted disaster – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… @RNSubMuseum @RoyalNavy @HMSWarspite6 @MerseyFire

Cdr Tim Cannon, engineer in the nuclear submarine Warspite whose actions in a fire averted disaster

He filled the burning compartment with foam and through his courage and technical knowledge secured the safety of the reactor plant

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One book to read on 80th anniversary of the liberation of the women's hell at Ravenbruck: Lindell's List, Mary's heroism as a French Red Cross nurse in 1914-18, in MI9, and rescuing American and British women from a Nazi concentration camp @TheHistoryPress @veday80
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Pam Harding, Y-Service Wren who transcribed German Morse and voice messages for Bletchley telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… @bletchleypark @RoyalNavy @WomenInHist

Pam Harding, Y-Service Wren who transcribed German Morse and voice messages for Bletchley

She heard German shore stations exchanging messages in three-letter ‘Q-codes’, which the Wrens worked out for themselves

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Brenda Lang, Wren at Bletchley who decoded messages on submarine and ship movements – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

Brenda Lang, Wren at Bletchley who decoded messages on submarine and ship movements

Of Bletchley message-sifting she said: ‘Most of it was boring: “To so-and-so. Your wife has given birth to a baby girl. Heil Hitler”’

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Hazel Picking, wartime Wren who relayed signals in Morse code using an Aldis lamp – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…

Hazel Picking, wartime Wren who relayed signals in Morse code using an Aldis lamp

Hazel had naval ancestry going back to the Battle of Trafalgar and as a Girl Guide had become expert in semaphore

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Capt Richard Farnfield, submariner who played underwater blind man's buff with Soviets telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… @RoyalNavy @RNSubMuseum

Captain Richard Farnfield, submariner who played underwater blind man’s bluff with the Soviets

Undetected, his hunter-killer nuclear submarine Sovereign passed some 800 yards from a Delta-class sub, which was performing a ‘Crazy Ivan’

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