Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial P...
661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS Providence Island La Garce The Holy Ghost The Blue Dove The Providence The St. Anthony Case of Rodriguez and Rhodes Brandenburg Privateers Bartholomew Sharp and Others The Salamander The Camelion Case of Wil...
Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade ...
10,943円 The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic...
Greek Naval Strategy and Policy 1910-1919
10,943円 A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their consequences for Greek national aims, the Mediterranean naval situation and the Balkan balance of powe...
The War For All The Oceans
2,519円 As France emerged from revolution, a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, hoping next to march overland to India. It would not happen. Britain swung her forces into action to battle for control of the world's sea-lanes and thus all international trade. The Battle of the Nile and ...
The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947–2007
11,440円 The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007, the fifth volume in the monumental U.S. Navy Warship series, presents an all-inclusive compendium of the ships that served in the U.S. Navy from the Cold War up through the present day. Featuring radical new developments in warships such as nuclear-powered ...
Elite Navy SEAL Team - The Warrior Elite
1,657円 After the tragic death of all the other members of SEAL Team Six, Shawn Bowe and newly reactivated SEAL Dominic Rodriguez must rebuild Team Six from a group of young recruits. While the recruits are caught in the SEALs high octane training, most of the men cannot endure and are forced to quit. Te...
Imperial Defence
12,103円 This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial Defence'. The theme is one of imperial defence...
Intrepid
777円 The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York City The USS Intrepid is a warship unlike any other. Since her launching in 1943, the 27,000-ton, Essex-class aircraft carrier ha...
The New Navy, 1883-1922
12,933円 The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the "New Navy" and ordered removal of all obsolete ships. All US Navy ships since that time have stemmed from these first three cruisers. The numbering sys...
Jack London
1,738円 A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer. ‘We cannot help but read on’: TLS. ‘The energy, dynamism and sheer bursting life-force of Jack London bowls you over’: Scotsman. Jac...
Twenty-First Century Seapower
11,275円 This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced ...
Maritime Piracy
9,119円 Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry’s rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, ...
楽天Koboの電子書籍!マンガ、小説、雑誌のレビュー高評価、最安値をチャック!