11,772円 This new book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s to World War Two, the Cold War and the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990. Successful adaptation to new conditions has been critical to all navies at all times.

3,806円 The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prang...

777円 Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny ag...

661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS PCHAPTER I. Preliminary CHAPTER II. From Cairo to Vicksburg CHAPTER III. From the Gulf to Vicksburg CHAPTER IV. The Recoil from Vicksburg CHAPTER V. The Mississippi Opened CHAPTER VI. Minor Occurrences in 18...

1,326円 ACES AGAINST JAPAN The American Aces Speak Eric Hammel In this superb, originally conceived offering, noted military historian, Eric Hammel brings us first-person accounts from thirty-nine American fighter aces who blasted their way across the skies of the Pacific and East Asia from December 7, 1...

4,967円 In 1674, it is three years since Henry MorganÆs pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain...

403円 "The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1909, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1910, and as a book in the short-story collection "Twixt Land and Sea" (1912). The story takes place at sea, near the Gulf of Siam, and is told from the perspective of a young nameless C...

1,555円 From the national bestselling author of Final Patrol comes a gripping story of heroism under the sea. In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth charge attack. Explosions wracked the sub for fi...

1,691円 In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-liv...

207円 Shipbuilding at Glasgow during the later half of the nineteenth century was a race to build faster ships for Trans-Atlantic travel. This is a brief look at the building of “The City of New York.”

12,933円 Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939**is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world German submarine attack on Britain's maritime trade in 1939. Well researched and yet accessibly writ...

10,280円 The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea**Changes re-evaluates ...