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Aircraft Carrier Victorious "Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans"

Aircraft Carrier Victorious "Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans"

Hobbs, David

Seaforth Publishing

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the "as fitted" general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the ...

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pvp.42,00 €

The Last Cruise of a German Raider "The Destruction of SMS"

The Last Cruise of a German Raider "The Destruction of SMS"

Olson, Wes

Seaforth Publishing

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pvp.33,00 €

Jutland "The Unfinished Battle"

Jutland "The Unfinished Battle"

Jellicoe, Nicholas

Seaforth Publishing

**Completely revised and updated.** More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle. What was in fact a strategic victory stands out starkly against the background of bitter public disappointment in the Royal Navy ...

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pvp.23,00 €

The Four Days' Battle of 1666 "The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail"

The Four Days' Battle of 1666 "The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail"

Fox, Frank L

Seaforth Publishing

On 1st June 1666, during the second Anglo-Dutch War, a large but outnumbered English Fleet engaged the Dutch off the mouth of the Thames in a colossal battle that was to involve nearly 200 ships and last four days. False intelligence had led the English to divide their fleet to meet a phantom fleet from ...

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pvp.23,00 €

The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

Hoffs, Gill

Seaforth Publishing

The ship was almost instantly in flames Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it is supposed killed great numbers by their descent. Others, it is feared, were roasted alive, but the majority were drowned. (Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette, 25 August 1848) ...

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pvp.25,00 €

The History of Navigation

The History of Navigation

Pike, Dag

Seaforth Publishing

Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus.

The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they had to rely on the ...

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pvp.34,00 €

Pirates and Privateers in the 18th Century "The Final Flourish"

Pirates and Privateers in the 18th Century "The Final Flourish"

Rendell, Mike

Seaforth Publishing

Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a pirate's gold rush; how the King's Pardon was a desperate ...

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pvp.25,00 €

Bay of Pigs "CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961 (Cold War 1945 1991)"

Bay of Pigs "CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961 (Cold War 1945 1991)"

Carradice, Phil

Seaforth Publishing

Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes from start ...

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pvp.19,00 €

Navy Board Ship Models

Navy Board Ship Models

Ball, Simon; Stephens, Simon

Seaforth Publishing

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pvp.49,00 €

The War With Hitler's Navy

The War With Hitler's Navy

Stewart, Andrew

Seaforth Publishing

As this well researched work reveals, Hitler's handling the German Navy during the Second World War was full of contradictions. The seriousness of the U-boat threat was never in doubt and in the dark days of 1940 - 1942, the Donitz's daring strategy coupled with the courage and determined actions of the captains and crews ...

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pvp.25,00 €

The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807 "Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars"

The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807 "Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars"

Glover, Gareth

Pen and Sword

The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover focuses on these two principal ...

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pvp.35,00 €

How the Navy Won the War

How the Navy Won the War

Ring, Jim

Pen and Sword

Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg and Passchendaele. These epics of destruction and futility are such bywords for the World War I that--Jutland apart--we forget the role played by sea power in the war to end war. The great global conflict is too often narrowed to the fields of Flanders and the plains of Picardy. Now, award-winning ...

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pvp.27,00 €