1,657円 An elite team of Navy SEALs is training for a mission to take down one of the most viscous terrorist groups in the world. But through a leak in US Intelligence, the scar-faced leader of the terrorist organization learns of the forthcoming SEALs' mission. While the SEALs are stationed on an aircr...

1,088円 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture The Command, this riveting, brilliantly researched account details the deadliest submarine disaster in history and its devastating human cost. “Fast-paced . . . an emotion-packed and ultimately heartbreaking story that also s...

612円 CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. OTAHEITE CHAPTER II. THE BREAD-FRUIT CHAPTER III. THE MUTINY CHAPTER IV. THE OPEN-BOAT NAVIGATION CHAPTER V. THE 'PANDORA' CHAPTER VI. THE COURT-MARTIAL CHAPTER VII. THE KING'S WARRANT CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST OF THE MUTINEERS CONCLUSION ADDITIONAL NOTE ENDNOTES

403円 A collection featuring two nautical adventure stories : "The Penang Pirate", describes how the Captain of the "Hankow Lin", suspecting that there might be a piratical attack on his vessel on her return voyage from Canton to Australia, lays plans to spoil the pirates' plans. "The Lost Pinnace". HM...

241円 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’ Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to pr...

6,633円 In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have bee...

1,480円 Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007. Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men-led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a governme...

10,943円 This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a seco...

415円 Thomas Hodgskin was a member of the British Navy, and a socialist writer, critical of what he saw as the ills of capitalism. Later in his career, he wrote for The Economist. An Essay on Naval Discipline is a critical piece on the authoritarianism in the British Navy at the time.

1,856円 A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's west side, abandoned all caution (including foghorns, radar, and running lights), and sailed out of Ne...

661円 This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, and Footnotes CONTENTS TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. YING HING SOO's PREFACE. KING CHUNG HO's PREFACE. BOOK FIRST. BOOK SECOND. APPENDIX.

1,779円 Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period of huge change – for the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, ...