Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of t...
612円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS Preface Carlo Zeno: Hero of the Venetian Republic Sir Francis Drake: Rover and Sea Ranger Sir Walter Raleigh: Persecutor of the Spaniards Jean Bart: The Scourge of the Dutch Du Guay-Tro...
Elite Navy SEAL Team Secrets (The Heart, ...
1,657円 Six men of the Elite Navy SEAL Team have been specially selected for a mission in Southeast Asia where an extremist organization is set to create a new political party and religion to get rid of the current establishment. Based CIA Intelligence, they’re said to have connections to recent terroris...
SEAL Team Six - The Fist, The Heart, The ...
1,657円 SEAL Team Six gets another mission from General Richards. This time they had to annihilate a terrorist in Brazil. They infiltrated there and with the help of the other SEAL Teams managed to kill the terrorist at the national television building. On top of that building was another terrorist that ...
Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812
2,248円 As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small...
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board the Sh...
661円 A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD THE SHIP GLOBE, OF NANTUCKET, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, Jan. 1824 AND THE JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS ON THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS. BY WILLIAM LAY, OF SAYBROOK, CONN. AND CYRUS M. HUSSEY, OF NANTUC...
Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
12,933円 Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. Economics...
Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
10,943円 Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far an...
Hunter Killers
2,519円 HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes. HUNTER KILLERS will follow the careers of four daring British submarine captains who risked their lives to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits consigned to the shadows until now. Thei...
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War
99円 Victors write history. German Admiral Reinhard Scheer knew this, and wrote his own anyway. In this memoir of World War One, he says, "We are victors and vanquished at one and the same time, and in depicting our success the difficult problem confronts us of not forgetting that our strength did not...
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Nava...
164円 Classic work of history. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World W...
China's Rising Sea Power
10,943円 This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets cha...
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room
4,400円 Explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger Taking a biographical approach to his subject, Peter Kurtz describes three phases of the life of the William Badger, a sailing ship with a long and exempl...
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