The British Navy in Eastern Waters. The Indian and Pacific Oceans, Hardback - John D Grainger

Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present.Pub...

A survey of the activities of the British navy in the Caribbean from the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and ...

With an introduction by Marlon James, So Many Islands brings together stories from the distant shores of the island communities in the Caribbean, M...

A major new contribution to our understanding the war in the East.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Andrew BoydIllustration(s): 25 illustr...

The only book available in English devoted to this subject. Narrates momentous yet neglected events: in 279 the Celtic Galatians invaded, defeated ...

John Grainger skilfully narrates the political and social developments, complex diplomacy and wars that marked the reigns of the first two Ptolemie...

Identifies and narrates 40 sieges of the city that was Byzantion, then Constantinople and now Istanbul.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): J...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, ...

Tells the history of this pivotal region, the doorway between Europe and Asia.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): John D GraingerIllustratio...

Covers a fascinating, but neglected conflict. The Jewish Maccabean revolt and the brief Jewish independence under the Hasmonean dynasty.

DescriptionAntipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexa...

Analyses the Roman imperial succession and the failure to come up with an enduring, consistent system for selecting the next emperor.

Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate ...

DescriptionThe Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander's death and the rise of Rome. It was ru...

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the British Raj, then keep reading...The British presence in India lasted for nearly 350 years, ...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): James D. HornfischerIllustration(s): Three 16-PP photo inserts; mapsNumber of pages: 640Publication date:...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the British Raj, then keep reading...The British presence in India lasted for nearly 350 years, ...

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As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and...

Ptolemaic Egypt was last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by the expansion of Roman power. Cleopatra, last of the Ptolemies, w...

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Reducere. Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exp...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Sally GraingerIllustration(s): 80 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2012Dimension...

This story covers the three main divisions of enlisted training in the US Navy during WWI: the training stations, the reserve training camps, and t...

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

DescriptionVictory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and Near Eastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants...

2nd Part in groundbreaking three-part history of Seleukid Empire. Narrates the heyday of the Seleukid empire, then the largest state in the world, ...

A new edition of the history of mapping the seas, richly illustrated with more than 100 rare and antique maps. Redesigned and updated with new mate...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Steven HooperIllustration(s): 340 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2006Dimension...

An important but neglected aspect of classical warfare. Covers technological, strategic and tactical developments from Alexander to the battle of A...

Reducere. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary col...

New in paperback - How British soldiers took Sword and Gold beaches on D-Day. This is the story of the British soldiers' experience of the beach la...

This important new book looks at the crucial role played by Indian soldiers in the control, and expansion, of the British Empire. Marking the 75th ...

Reducere. About the AuthorJohn D. McDermott is an independent historian, interpretive planner, and heritage tourism consultant. Among his seven previously pu...

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive op...

Contributor(s): Author: John D. CaputoApplying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian de...

The principal aim of this book is to address the international legal questions arising from the 'right of visit on the high seas' in the 21st century.

The story of Kilsoo Haan's brilliant espionage, first against Japan and then against the Soviet Union - a huge advantage spurned.

Conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the Solomons theatre, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate ...

Reducere. The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God's existence is a human responsibility, which ma...

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