From Scapa to Jutland: The Story of HMS Caroline at War from 1914-1917, Paperback - John Allison

DescriptionAmid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book f...

DescriptionHailed as "a rousing read" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader ...

The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the night of 13 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second war patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow ...

Includes specifications, crew duties and life on board U-47.

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

Reducere. The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France...

Description"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greates...

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At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant ...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first exp...

With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government ba...

With the aid of over 300 black and white and colour photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, The Eastern Front provides a detailed guide to t...

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

Reducere. Before Jutland is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand...

Reducere. Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engag...

Reducere. One of the Last Great Memoirs of the Greatest Generation: A Tennessee Back-Hills Boy Comes of Age on the Battlefields of Nazi GermanyThis memoir is...

How photography and cameras began; the difficulties of using early cameras in wartime.

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany--the two largest fleets of World War I--against one another f...

Gripping account of heroism in the face of near certain disaster. Includes first person accounts from the sailors aboard the Marblehead. Written by...

Reducere. During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive p...

Reducere. The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

Reducere. The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiya MilesIn this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours, " frequently promoted and ...

Reducere. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standard...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, ...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

Reducere. John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was...

From the Line brings together the best of Scotland's poetry from the two World Wars: 138 poems, from fifty-six poets, are represented here; poetry ...

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

What were the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist or readily accept their draft notices in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam? I...

Reducere. Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady...

Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoli...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Publisher: Peter Owen PublishersAuthor(s): John HilaryNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 198 x 256 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-S...

Reducere. This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. Davi...

Presents a thorough chronology and atlas of naval warfare from the Age of Galleys to The Nuclear Age.

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Reducere. Slavery Of Faith...the quietly kept story of a young woman's escape through the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana the morning of the massacre November 1...

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Catalogues and gives a brief description of every significant battle (and most insignificant ones too) known to have been fought by the Roman Emper...

Reducere. Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. ...