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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846773136Author W. H. FitchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760794750Author Kathryn SpurlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 450g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907771043Author Mike CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelson;s personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar,...

The history of weapons and warfare is usually written about from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in particular, the story of how these weapons were invented, designed and supplied is seldom told. Chris...

Between Drake's Revenge and the Polaris submarine, the most recent Revenge, are the glory years of the Royal Navy. Revenge was at the Armada, the Azores, Trafalgar and Jutland and with weapons capable of terrible destruction.The first Revenge commanded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907771661Author Ben WarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

Investigates the fascination pirates hold over popular imagination, taking the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoodsailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasting it with the muderous reality of robbery, torture and death, and the freedom of a short,...

Credited with vividly recreating an early chapter in American history with his first novel, A Matter of Honor, William C. Hammond continues the seafaring adventures of the prominent Massachusetts family in this second novel. Set in the years following...

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...

For two generations, battleships, sometimes known as all-big-gun ships, represented the military might and pride of their countries. They threatened, they impressed, they surprised in a way that no other symbol could, and their presence could influence...

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...

Tells the story of Mountbatten's command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla and the brand new "Kelly".Book InformationISBN 9780340574515Author Richard HoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Coronet BooksPublisher Hodder & Stoughton General...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780713712216Author Kenneth PoolmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Blandford PressPublisher Cassell & Co (A member of the Orion Publishing...

Late in the morning of May 27th, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety minutes. Admiral Gunther Lutjens, Captain Ernst Lindermann and and 2,206 men of her crew were lost,...

In this text, Nicholas Rodger reveals the extent and power of Britain's navy since the 7th century.Book InformationISBN 9780006388401Author N. A. M. RodgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins...

By 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte was master of continental Europe and readying his troops for the invasion of England. The decisive action at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, under the command of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578364551Author Sam StavrosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Nautical TitlesPublisher Nautical TitlesWeight(grams) 336g

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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...

There are few figures in British history more famous and more influential than Vice-Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, KB. This book offers a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Nelson story. It is complemented by a gazetteer and chronology, together...

The Senior Service has, for a hundred years, had submarines. Originally thought to be Un-English, submarines helped us win two World Wars and have played a great part in Britain's nuclear deterrent for the past thirty years. Originally some of the small...

A new examination of the history and sinking of the seemingly invincible epitome of British naval power, the HMS "Hood", which was attacked and destroyed by the" Bismarck" and the "Prince Eugen" in may 1941. The sinking of the "Hood" was a severe blow to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789627982241Author Peter MelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953812226Author Alan R. WardleFormat PaperbackImprint Surrey Industrial History GroupPublisher Surrey Industrial History GroupWeight(grams) 148g

Rescue at Sea International is a highly illustrated reference and general interest book which deals with all elements of coastal lifesaving and rescue at sea from the earliest times to the present day. The book is broken into four principle sections. The...

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 9780851774749Author Veryan HealFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Conway Maritime Press LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 140g

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...

Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another significant arena of war - the battle for control of...

On June 1, 1942, the United States Marine Corps broke a 144-year tradition and enlisted the first black Marines. Three months later, more than 400 black volunteers began their training as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford...

Philip de Souza presents the history of the sea as a medium for the development and expansion of human society and 'civilization', viewing both the positive and negative impact. The narrative and argument is organized under the following broad heads: *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860199691Author Paul KempFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Brockhampton Press LtdPublisher Brockhampton Press LtdWeight(grams) 660g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858338453Author Eric GroveFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 963g