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The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly 9781474607926
RRP: $12.89$5.30'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Quippy anecdotes are woven with historical reference and geographical context to give full colour' IRISH TIMESA bulwark against... -
Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank?: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy by Steve Hall
RRP: $32.25$20.95The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 - an... -
The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World: The Sinking of the "Titanic" and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell
RRP: $16.76$10.73When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. With new research and... -
The Ships of Scapa Flow by Campbell McCutcheon
RRP: $20.63$14.00The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was important during both wars but what makes Scapa Flow... -
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $32.25$29.05A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling."-Ian W. Toll, New York Times "The book makes for enjoyable... -
MV Hughes Glomar Explorer: The Top Secret Mission by Mark H Glissmeyer 9780998541679
$15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998541679Author Mark H GlissmeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Gradina BooksPublisher Gradina BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Messages from the Sea: Letters and Notes from a Lost Era Found in Bottles and on Beaches Around the World by Paul Brown 9780995541214
$13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995541214Author Paul BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SuperelasticPublisher Superelastic -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this... -
RMS Queen Elizabeth: Classic Liners by Andrew Britton 9780752479514
RRP: $32.25$23.92This history book tells the story of RMS Queen Elizabeth, the ship which, along with her running mate Queen Mary, successfully worked Cunard's transatlantic service for much of the twentieth century. She was launched in September 1938, the largest... -
The Penguin Book of Pirates by No author 9780143137511
RRP: $21.92$12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137511Author No authorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
RRP: $24.50$16.55'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL... -
ShipCraft 32: British Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Ark Royal and the Illustrious Class by Robert Brown 9781399036269
RRP: $21.92$17.29The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of popular warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and... -
The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present by Jon Wise 9781399041706
RRP: $32.25$22.73From the first recorded mention of British ships protecting of fishing vessels in the late fourteenth century through to recent controversies over the change in emphasis to border patrols and overseas deployments, the story of the Royal Navy's... -
Pirata: The dramatic novel of the pirates who hunt the seas of the Roman Empire by Simon Scarrow
RRP: $12.89$8.77The Sunday Times bestseller!It is AD 25. Pirate ships strike terror in the hearts of those who brave the seas of the Roman Empire. When young Telemachus joins the crew of the merchant ship Selene, he's delighted to escape the rough streets of Piraeus. He... -
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $16.76$14.78One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states "A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called 'the watery part of the world.'"-William Anthony... -
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780007321667
RRP: $16.76$10.73Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is a fresh investigation of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the... -
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor
RRP: $29.03$23.19A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall... -
The Untold Story of Captain James Cook RN: Revelations of a Historical Researcher by Colin Waters 9781399056960
RRP: $28.38$20.15The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants. Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters... -
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: $35.46$25.39From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two-"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."... -
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s revenge by Angus Konstam
RRP: $32.25$23.25'A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history.' Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin... -
A Dictionary of Liverpool Ship Portraitists and Marine Artists by Anthony Tibbles
RRP: $25.80$23.47This dictionary is the most comprehensive work of reference on the ship portraitists and marine artists who worked in Liverpool between the late eighteenth century and the present day. It includes 65 known portraitists and marine artists and an... -
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian 9780008355999
RRP: $12.89$8.57Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like,... -
1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
RRP: $14.18$9.35In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and... -
We Fought Them in Gunboats: HMS Beehive edition by Robert Hichens
RRP: $19.34$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262595Author Robert HichensFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly
RRP: $21.92$12.87A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every... -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips 9781472146175
RRP: $14.18$9.55When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
Liverpool Docks by Michael Stammers
RRP: $19.34$14.90The story of Liverpool is, in many ways, the story of its docks. Before the docks, trade was limited by the tides and at the mercy of the Mersey's currents. After dock construction began, the city became a hub of Britain's worldwide trading network... -
The Pirate World by Angus Konstam
RRP: $38.70$29.09Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world. Often romanticised in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas... -
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The story of the Barbary corsair raid on Iceland in 1627 by Karl Smari Hreinsson
RRP: $32.19$30.78In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in North Africa. Among those taken were the Lutheran minister Reverend Olafur Egilsson.Reverend Olafur (born in the... -
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare by Sam Willis 9781837651115
RRP: $33.53$27.98Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea... -
Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean
RRP: $12.89$8.57On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of... -
The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind by Kevin Jackson
RRP: $10.31$7.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916190894Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: $19.34$12.51From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater by Jeff Maynard
RRP: $32.25$20.81Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more... -
Guide to the Crew of Titanic: The Structure of Working Aboard the Legendary Liner by Gunter Babler
RRP: $20.63$15.80Much has been written about Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg in 1912; however, until now little mention has been made about the intricate world of the ship's complement, which comprised... -
Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42: The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway by Mark Stille 9781472856432
RRP: $20.63$14.98Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of... -
Titanic: A Passenger's Guide Pocket Book by John Blake 9781472834164 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$5.70An examination of one of the most famous ships of all time, from a refreshingly different angle. Compiled from authentic period sources with nostalgic illustrations. Launched in May 1911, the triple-screw steamer Titanic was the pride of the White... -
Titanic: A Passenger's Guide Pocket Book by John Blake
RRP: $12.89$8.41An examination of one of the most famous ships of all time, from a refreshingly different angle. Compiled from authentic period sources with nostalgic illustrations. Launched in May 1911, the triple-screw steamer Titanic was the pride of the White... -
The Geography of the Ocean: Knowing the ocean as a space by Anne-Flore Laloe 9781138546509
RRP: $59.33$51.77Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad... -
Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer by Alexander Clarke 9781399077958
RRP: $21.92$15.84The ships that dominate so much of the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War are more often than not the carriers or battleships – Ark Royal, Warspite, Hood – and rarely do ships smaller than cruisers move centre stage. Apart that is from one...