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Naval Battles of the Second World War : The Atlantic and the Mediterranean

Naval Battles of the Second World War : The Atlantic and the Mediterranean

Marriott, Leo

Seaforth Publishing

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott's highly illustrated two-volume account of the struggle sets naval actions in the ...

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pvp.28,00 €

Running the Gauntlet : Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939-1945

Running the Gauntlet : Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939-1945

Edwards, Bernard

Seaforth Publishing

The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial to the nation's survival using ...

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British Warship Losses in the Modern Era : 1920 - 1982

British Warship Losses in the Modern Era : 1920 - 1982

Hepper, David

Seaforth Publishing

This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the First World War, to the last years of the century. In all, the fates of over 2,000 ships and small ...

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pvp.42,00 €

Knight of the North Atlantic : Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of U-402 1941-1943

Knight of the North Atlantic : Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of U-402 1941-1943

Hamilton, Aaron Stephan

Seaforth Publishing

As World War II recedes further into the past, still each year hundreds of new books are published about some aspect of this global conflict. Many offer new insights from recently declassified documents. Other's look to re-interpret what was thought to be well understood events. This book is no exception. The history of U-402, a ...

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pvp.36,00 €

British Battleships of World War One

British Battleships of World War One

Burt, R.A.

Seaforth Publishing

This superb reference book achieved the status of classic soon after its first publication in 1986; it remains the most popular book on this era of battleship development. It presents, in one superb volume, the complete technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era. One hundred years ago at Jutland, ...

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pvp.38,00 €

British Battleships 1889-1904

British Battleships 1889-1904

Burt, R.A.

Seaforth Publishing

This volume of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about the Royal Navy's ability to fight a modern war at sea resulted in the Naval Defence ...

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Balchen's Victory : The Loss and Rediscovery of an Admiral and His Ship

Balchen's Victory : The Loss and Rediscovery of an Admiral and His Ship

Seaforth Publishing

This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory , the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744 . This is not ...

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pvp.32,00 €

A Sailor's Odyssey : The Autobiography of Admiral Andrew Cunningham

A Sailor's Odyssey : The Autobiography of Admiral Andrew Cunningham

Cunningham, Andrew

Seaforth Publishing

Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of the Admiral was unveiled in Trafalgar Square close by his predecessor in 1967 by the Duke of Edinburgh.

It was during the dark ...

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Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare : From the First World War to the Present Day

Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare : From the First World War to the Present Day

Glynn, Michael E

Frontline Books

Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare unlocks the history and theory behind the shadowy art of how aircraft hunt for submarines. Written by a veteran US Navy submarine hunting pilot, this book will take aviators, naval enthusiasts, and military scholars behind the scenes to understand how technical breakthroughs, the evolution of weapons, and advances in sensors have shaped ...

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pvp.38,00 €

The Battleship Builders : Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

The Battleship Builders : Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

Johnston, Ian

Seaforth Publishing

The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought , the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked in an arms race with Germany, Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet ...

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Schnellbootwaffe : Adolf Hitler s Guerrilla War at Sea: S-Boote 1939-45

Schnellbootwaffe : Adolf Hitler s Guerrilla War at Sea: S-Boote 1939-45

Hrvoje Spajic

Pen and Sword

The Schnellbootwaffe was created in the early 1930s, before the Second World War, in concurrence with the regenerated Kriegsmarine, and young officers, most of whom learned their craft in the old Imperial Navy, would take responsibility for the operational use of these revolutionary vessels.

Working with the naval engineers of Lurssen Shipyard, the Germans designed ...

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pvp.22,00 €

Hitler's Attack U-Boats : The Kriegsmarine's Submarine Strike Force

Hitler's Attack U-Boats : The Kriegsmarine's Submarine Strike Force

Showell, Jak P Mallmann

Seaforth Publishing

The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain's vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an Anglo-German Naval Agreement. This allowed the Germans to build their submarine strength up to ...

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pvp.22,00 €