The Story of Ships

The story of the worst ship disasters in history, of ships sunk in the Baltic between January and May 1945Illustrations: 150 Illustrations, black a...

Reducere. During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty sh...

Reducere. AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA THRILLING EPIC TALE OF THE SEA We, the Drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approac...

Reducere. Dedicated to the young recruits and seasoned sailors in need on broken ships and the women and men who came to their rescue. The book tells the tru...

Reducere. The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Gam...

A wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle East On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of...

DescriptionThe third volume in this acclaimed series focuses on the J.J. Abram's Star Trek films - featuring nearly 20 ships, including the new Ent...

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the compan...

This is the story of my Great Grandfather's voyage on a whaling ship from New Bedford to the North Pacific and back from 1842 to 1845. The official...

Reducere. Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraf...

Reducere. Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraf...

Reducere. • Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships , broadcaster and classicist N...

DescriptionThis is the extraordinary story of the people with the vision to build not one, but a whole fleet of the world's biggest cruise ships, e...

DescriptionThis is the extraordinary story of the people with the vision to build not one, but a whole fleet of the world's biggest cruise ships, e...

A pictorial celebration of the world-famous sister ships: the Olympic-class liners A maritime expert tells the story of the sister ships using prev...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account...

Reducere. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the ...

Reducere. From hermitages on wind-blasted holms to dour nineteenth-century preaching barns; from a splendid cathedral founded by a Norse earl to a Nissen hut...

The story of how 700 small privately-owned vessels helped to save 338, 226 British and French soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.

Reducere. In this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen ...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the United States' Civil War, Confederate Navy Raiders struck fear into the hearts of Union Whalers. Under officers like James Wa...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the United States' Civil War, Confederate Navy Raiders struck fear into the hearts of Union Whalers. Under officers like James Wa...

HERO AT DUNKIRK is the true story of the heroic fleet of little ships who saved the British Expeditionary Forces at Dunkirk in 1940. The story foll...

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...

DescriptionReynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His...

Reducere. The Art of Porco Rosso English Version, a film by Hayao Miyazaki. Contains Original Story The Age of the Flying Boat, Full of Pride and Freedom, Sh...

DescriptionFeaturing ships from the first season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY The story of how the creative teams reimagined STAR TREK for the 21st Cent...

Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous beliefs, and the irrepressible spirit of ex...

In 1554 a fleet of Spanish ships, laden with treasures from the New World departed from Vera Cruz in Mexico, bound for Havana. For reasons yet unkn...

The largest, most luxurious ship in the world, wrecked on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg in mid-Atlantic, has become the stuff o...

Reducere. Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship--a luxury liner three and a half times the lengt...

Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with....

This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships. He ha...

Every Thursday at 4 p.m. a Union Castle express liner left Southampton for the Cape. William H Miller tells the story of the post-war Union Castle ...

A roaring romp of an adventure story about pirates, stolen ships, dinsaurs, and an extraordinary school art cupboard. Giles Andreae has won the Sma...

Reducere. DescriptionEgmont Key has been a sentinel for ships entering Tampa Bay from the Gulf of Mexico for hundreds of years. Early European explorers reco...

Drawing on technical illustrations and exhaustive research, this book tells the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface shi...

Reducere. The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told. With the same "grunt's-eye-view" na...

Reducere. DescriptionLarge, wooden-hulled schooners graced the seas of coastal Maine for more than a century as vessels of trade and commerce. With the adven...

DescriptionCork Harbour's association with infamous ships like Titanic and Lusitania ensure its place in world maritime history. While such tragedi...

Reducere. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer...

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

Everyone has heard of the USS Constitution and the USS Constellation. They were the first two ships commissioned into the United States Navy. But h...

Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes e...

Reducere. Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by James DeWolf. When the United States too...

From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the...

Captain Stinky and their crew visit the Island of Turtalia. Everything on Turtalia is big Meet Ced, the chief on the island, look out for that pira...

During the first years of the Second World War, Italian commandos demonstrated how effective a weapon the frogman could be. Concealed by the water,...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of B...

Reducere. The definitive New York Times-bestselling account: "One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since A Night to Remembe...

The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. It is also our greatest graveyard. Resting in its depths lay the lost ships of war spanning the totali...

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845--whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 12...

Reducere. Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Q...

DescriptionAll civilizations have faced the challenges and dangers of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs, headlands, re...

Reducere. DescriptionAdventure, friendship, and magical realism come together in this heartwarming, whimsical story. Perfect for fans of A Snicker of Magic a...

Reducere. In 1672, Henry Morgan took 36 ships and 2, 000 men to sack Panama City for a $1 billion plunder and 600 slaves. Afterward, Morgan cheated his men, ...

Reducere. Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of the most anticipated sf&f collections of recent years. Pinsker has shot like a star across ...

Reducere. The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the...

Reducere. Today's hottest romance stars make it a summer to remember -- with a sizzling story collection for sunny days and steamy nights.... Under the Board...

During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. T...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"As soon as I arrived ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the closing days of World War II a crisis was emerging for German civilians trapped on the Eastern Front by the Red Army. Many lived ...

Reducere. We all have a story to tell. Mine is a sea story that started in 1948 when I turned 14 and no further education was available to me. My father gave...

DescriptionFully illustrated with stunning artwork, Chinese Ironclad Battleship vs Japanese Protected Cruiser is the engrossing story of the Yalu R...

Reducere. DescriptionIn December 1606, when they set sail from London for the Virginia coast, the people aboard the three ships anticipated the best. They wo...

Reducere. Parents, Grandparents, siblings, and caregivers can share this delightful story with children: toddlers through early readers. The Tugboat Cheryl A...

Reducere. Parents, Grandparents, siblings, and caregivers can share this delightful story with children: toddlers through early readers. The Tugboat Cheryl A...

Reducere. ENTER THE SHIPS' GRAVEYARD ...A watchful Northumbrian family, devoted to duty in the lighthouse on the treacherous Farne Islands.A vicious North Se...

Chug, chug, chug. Scout the tugboat spends her days chugging through the bright blue water, pulling and pushing ships into port and out to sea, all...