The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers, Hardcover - Angus Konstam

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Contributor(s): Author: Angus KonstamThis title tells the dramatic story of how the Royal Navy transformed ordinary citizens into first-rate and fe...

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This new edition of the most influential book about pirates ever written presents twenty action-packed biographies of the likes of Blackbeard and C...

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These 27 images of legendary freebooters range from Artemisia, a commander in the ancient Persian navy of Xerxes, to Huang P'ei-mei, a twentieth-ce...

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On 25 December 1943 the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst slipped out Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital wa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angus KonstamNumber of pages: 96Collection: CampaignPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x 246 x 9C...

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Who doesn't love pirates? From Captain Hook to Captain Jack Sparrow, Blackbeard to Black Bart, these pistol-packing, cutlass-flashing, bandana-topp...

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As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angus KonstamIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of colour illustrationsN...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angus KonstamIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of colour illustrationsN...