Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy, Hardcover - Benjamin Armstrong

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In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has...

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Publ...

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Offers an up-to-date assessment of the nature of early Roman warfare and the evolution of the legions, a subject debated for over a century.Publish...

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New paperback edition of the definitive work on the navy of this era

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This edited volume examines the political and security issues influencing and shaping the developing maritime order in the Indo Pacific. If focuses...

A very British introduction to the dress and duties of officers and men of the Royal Navy `upon whom the responsibility of its efficiency falls'. T...

A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures. Martyn Wh...

DescriptionIn 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger and ca...

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DescriptionConflict on the early American Frontier This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-wher...

A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to e...

Help more students access the content for Pearson Edexcel GCSE History with this Foundation Edition, containing bespoke text and activities to supp...

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After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

The Upper South--Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia--was the scene of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil. Contending ar...

In-depth new study of Military Intelligence. An authoritative account of a little-known and often misunderstood organization and its contribution t...

This is the first comprehensive work, in either English or Italian, to address Italian small arms used during World War I and World War II. It desc...

195 pages, black and white photographic illustrations

History is recorded in many ways. According toauthor James Deetz, the past can be seen most fullyby studying the small things so often forgotten.Ob...

DescriptionCruisers were the Navy's maids-of-all-work employed in a greater variety of roles than any other warship type. Smaller faster and far mo...

Reducere. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in histo...

The perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet.

Contributor(s): Author: David DoyleThe Sturmgesch tz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support a...

Reducere. The Delaware Bay during the Revolutionary War was vital for trade and home to a host of armed conflicts between British vessels and American privat...

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Reducere. This is the story of James, John, and Hamilton Armstrong, three sons of a yeoman farmer living on the Pennsylvania frontier at the outset of the Am...

The complete history of the building of PT boats for the U.S. Navy at the Elco, Higgins, and Huckins plants. One hundred sixty-two full-page illust...

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