711円 The true story of one young naval officer's journey to war. Spring, 1982. The government of Argentina seizes control of an obscure group of islands in the South Atlantic. And the Falklands War, the last great naval conflict of the 20th century, is about to begin. On board HMS Illustrious a young ...

6,368円 Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed empire-wide systems of steam navigation and won or...

288円 The Clipper Ship Era is a fascinating book about American and British Clipper ships in the 19th century.

2,111円 Launched during the last days of the Third Reich in an attempt to restart the Battle of the Atlantic, the majority of these revolutionary Electro-U-boats never saw action. Instead they became the forebears of the Cold War’s much dreaded hunter killer submarines. The massive Type XXI was planned t...

2,640円 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Lancaster Canal from Wigan to Kendal. Designed by the celebrated engineer John Ronnie, it is notable for a large number of aqueducts, including the magnificent Lune Aqueduct at Lancaster. A large aqueduct across the Ribble Valley at Presto...

993円 Sculptor Antonio Frilli carved his statue of a Nude Sleeping in a Hammock according to the Pygmalion myth. Frilli's life-sized statue came to San Francisco for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition. There she was purchased to rest as "Eva" in the garden of a home later owned by lawyer ...

590円 The War of 1812 - 1814 as it happened on upper Lake Huron. The start of the war was a bloodless offence against Mackinac Island, Michigan. Then, the pressure was on the Canadians to defend this island, thier interests in the vicinity, and the borders of Canada.

7,464円 William Barker Cushing is considered one of the navy's greatest heroes of the Civil War. After his expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, Cushing managed to get an appointment as a master's mate on one of the warships of a blockading squadron. Cushing's daring and exceptional performance ...

288円 Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing-Ship Days is an account of a famous New England Sailor's adventures.

11,772円 This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that t...

150円 This carefully crafted ebook: "Dirty Jobs – Careers of Danger and Daring (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. If you are curious and excited about the ways in which our brave men did the commonest of jobs with the most basic techno...

9,948円 This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea, and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux. The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China’s management of te...