550円 Den 29. august 1943 var en af de mest dramatiske dage under den tyske besættelse af Danmark. Denne dag brød samarbejdspolitikken sammen, og tyske styrker satte sig derfor i besiddelse af den danske hær og flådes materiel. Enkelte steder kom det til kamp mellem danske og tyske styrker, og en af de...

3,236円 The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. It describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, ho...

1,900円 Nach seinen Abenteuern in Indien segelt Richard Sharpe an Bord eines englischen Handelsschiffes zurück nach Europa. Schon nach kurzer Zeit auf See überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Sharpe gerät in die Hände der Franzosen und wird kurz darauf von dem englischen Kapitän Chase befreit. Dieser jagt d...

1,322円 Seventy years on, D-Day remains the greatest combined military operation of all time. Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this is a remarkable collection of the stories of those who took part. June 6th 1944 saw the greatest combined military operation of all time and subsequent...

807円 The naval war in the Pacific is raging when Captain Thurston VC resists an office job to take command of HMS Inflexible, a proud and powerful aircraft carrier. It is no easy task. The overwhelming determination of the Japanese fighters and the cruel weather conditions make Thurston's command fr...

2,685円 Nelson, Navy & Nation explores the Royal Navy's relationship with Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars. The book encompasses the realities of naval life in this period; the navy's connection to society; culture and national identity; and the story of Nelson's life and caree...

891円 Støtteskibene Absalon og Esbern Snare er et symbol på det nye danske søværn, der er opstået efter den kolde krigs ophør. Fraværet af truslen i Danmarks nærområde gav plads til en ny aktivistisk dansk udenrigspolitik med større fokus på militære operationer fjernt fra Danmark – operationer, som Sø...

4,227円 This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty sy...

2,804円 From at least as early as the eighteenth century it became a tradition that, following operations involving the Royal Navy, the commanding admiral would report to the Admiralty in the form of an official despatch. Following the French wars of 1792–1815 the despatches were published and that set a...

1,657円 Germany's merchant marine fleet ー the second largest in the world prior to 1914 ー played an unintended but decisive role in that nation's defeat in World War I.  There were those ships that went to war for the Kaiser on the high seas, those that stayed at home or otherwise played no signi...

11,981円 This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the per...

2,804円 At the beginning of his diary, on 1st January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that ‘Lawson lies still in the River’. A mere two weeks before, amid rioting in the streets of London and with Parliament under the control of the army, Vice‑Admiral John Lawson had taken a fleet of twenty-two warships into th...