History of the Royal Navy, Hardcover

DescriptionThis title is an exploration of a life at sea in the time of Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson, covering topics as wide-ranging as science...

The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review, commemorating the...

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 ...

DescriptionThe Bismarck is perhaps the most famous--and notorious--warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45, 000-ton German battleship sank HM...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

DescriptionA brand-new narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pursuit of the legendary German battleship, Bism...

The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchan...

This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war i...

Reducere. This book chronicles the history of the HMS Gaspee, a sloop in the British Royal Navy that was sent to patrol the waters of Narragansett Bay in 177...

Reducere. A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner ...

Description""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the sp...

DescriptionOn 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet--interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice--began to founder taking their Briti...

Reducere. The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day o...

DescriptionThe ninth HMS Vanguard bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honors from the Armada to Jutland was the last a...

Reducere. Two high-ranking officers defied the British Admiralty to tell the tale of World War I's first naval battle against Germany. The Royal Navy had rul...

DescriptionVolume 1 of this two-part work puts the reader firmly into the footsteps of the 2nd and 5th Rangers as they arrive in England in 1943. I...

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet str...

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DescriptionThirty was the number of minutes it took for one Coastal Command crew to sink two U-boats. This remarkable achievement was carried out b...

Walter Edward Reginald Pratley, known to his family as Reg, was a Berkshire farm boy with a dream. He wanted to escape the everyday and experience ...

One summer's night in 1946, over 1, 000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...