1,415円 From its very inception, the little-known Küstenfliegergruppen, the German coastal air service, was hindered by restrictions imposed at the Treaty of Versailles and the rising dominance of Hermann Göring s Luftwaffe. Its size, capability and mandate were suppressed, and in 1944, the last Küstenfl...

526円 RMS BRITANNIC – die unbekannte Schwester der Titanic Die RMS Britannic der White Star Line war das dritte und letzte Schiff der Olympic-Klasse und wurde wie ihre Schwesterschiffe Titanic und Olympic auf der Werft von Harland & Wolff in Belfast gebaut. Sie war geringfügig breiter und schwerer als ...

4,239円 A veteran of both world wars and the Korean War, Gen. Gerald C. Thomas helped change the Marine Corps in the twentieth century. Though not as well-known as John Lejeune, Chesty Puller, and A. A. Vandegrift, he was, as this book clearly demonstrates, responsible for the transformation of the Marin...

9,119円 European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Taking a predominantly continental point of view, the book moves away from the typically Brit...

1,212円 This is the fascinating story of Captain Stanley Algar, an oil tanker master. Captured in the Atlantic, he and his colleagues spent four years behind barbed wire. This book, partly based on his diaries (which were hidden from the Germans), tells how the prisoners survived, confronted starvation, ...

2,022円 Italy was working on an embarked guided-rocket weapon system since 1940 and was also spying on Germany’s V-1 developments Beautifully illustrated with many rare/unpublished photographs and line drawings, which gives a unique insight in the history of Littorio-class design A must-have for militar...

165円 Non-fiction account, first published in 1898. The book begins: " Some thirty of her Majesty’s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had ...

7,480円 A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world’s navies. Warships ut...

12,933円 This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both ...

7,959円 Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them? Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land mak...

1,989円 In March of 1967, Ken Killmeyer became a crew member of USS Forrestal CVA-59, the first of the super aircraft carriers. In 1995, Ken was offered the position of historian of the USS Forrestal Association. During his time as a historian, Ken began collecting personal experience narratives of crew ...

1,223円 ◆文明的搖籃、發展與衝突、貿易戰爭、殖民爭霸、強權併吞、生態環境 ◆海洋是世上最大犯罪現場？最多不法之地？ ◆大海的一切，牽動著陸地上的人類，7大海洋的過去與未來如何影響世界？ 萬海歸宗，一切要從海說起！ 我們往往只關注陸地，卻忽略更遼闊、影響人類命運的海洋大歷史 研究人類歷史，不只是陸地，海洋史更不能缺...