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As air battles with Japanese fighter planes increased over the Pacific toward the end of World War 2, the Submarine Lifeguard League was formed to rescue Allied aviators forced to either "hit the silk" or zoom their plane into the drink. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068866Author Walter ThornburyFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 717g

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While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between-the Hellenistic Age-has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past...

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To Shining Sea is a landmark work of naval history--the most comprehensive and authoritative narrative account of American sea power written in recent times. From John Paul Jones's defiant cry "I have not yet begun to fight," to the war in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788436406Author Virgil E BaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 345g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369317162Author Lynne CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. Halsey's Fast Carrier Task Force was the ultimate naval armada during World War II. To protect the carriers squadrons of destroyers were placed in harm's way on the outer flanks of the formation. USS Haynsworth...

Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned...

One hundred years have passed since the first flight from a warship, an appropriate moment at which to mark the audacity, courage, vision and determination of the men, and more recently women, who have crewed aircraft carriers or flown from their decks...

By any standards, Admiral Sir John Treacher is an exceptional man who has had the fullest of lives. Old enough to have served and be sunk in the War, he went to be a naval aviator flying in the Korean War. His career took ff too and he rose rapidly to be...

The construction of the British Super Dreadnought warships between 1905 and 1920 was a mammoth undertaking involving two Roayl Naval dockyards and the largest armament manufacturers and naval shipbuilding firms in the UK.Book InformationISBN...

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Written by a military historian, this book aims to draw together the threads of the two wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 against Germany's submarines (Untersee Boote) noting their affinities and their contrasts. It tries to set each U-boat campaign against...

Following on from "The True Glory: The Royal Navy From 1914-1939", this book explores the history of the Royal Navy from the beginning of World War II, to the present day. It is based entirely on first-hand accounts, and all of the principle theatres of...

Who was responsible for the design of the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight? Why did Lord Ansonset out to circumnavigate the world with a crew of Chelsea pensioners? And how did the British cruiser HMS Trinidad...

The Sea Warriors chronicles the real-life adventures of the great sea captains who spent long, arduous years on the world's oceans, fighting for king and country, to win and rule the waves. The struggles of the Royal Navy's finest commanders encompass...

Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick...

The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality - that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth...

The imperial Austrian navy which fought and won the signal victory of Lissa on 20 July 1866, during the so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866, has in recent years been subjected to more detailed scrutiny than has hitherto been its lot, and it is with an eye...

William Hoste (1780-1828) entered the navy in April 1793, under the special care of Nelson, who had a lively affection for him. His career thereafter resembles the naval heroes of fiction such as Horatio Hornblower, Jack Aubrey or Nicholas Ramage. He...

By 1809, the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410217219Author Patrick J EssingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 676Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

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In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and...

This work contains one hundred biographies which were published in "The Daily Telegraph" during the past twenty years - men of the Navy, Marines and Fleet Air Arm, as well as the merchant fleet. They include such heroes as the Atlantic convoy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955338793Author David JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 297Imprint South Wales Record SocietyPublisher South Wales Record Society

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Originally published in 1912, when the naval arms race with Germany was nearing its climax, this title is read as much for its views on the future of naval warfare as its detailed statistics. It fully covers British naval history, from Alfred the Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586055502Author Peter ElliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 165g

In this action-packed adventure book Cussler relates the recent activities of NUMA, the organisation that features in his thriller novels and which he also created in real life: the National Underwater and Marine Agency. Cussler takes his fiction into...

The year 1942 opened on the note of virtually unrelieved gloom. Things were already bad enough in Europe; then in February, came the fall of Singapore and few had the foresight or optimism to share Prime Minister Churchill's view that ultimate victory...