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U-Boat War Patrol

U-Boat War Patrol

Paterson, Lawrence

Frontline Books

This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were liberated from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, until recently, remained hidden in a shoe box. The boat in question, ...

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pvp.20,00 €

Scotland and the Sea "The Scottish Dimension in Maritime"

Scotland and the Sea "The Scottish Dimension in Maritime"

Robins, Nick S.

Seaforth Publishing

Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an empire and as the world's leading maritime power in the nineteenth century.
Scottish engineering, ship owning and operating, as well as business and entrepreneurial skills, played a major part in the success of ...

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pvp.29,00 €

Feeding Nelson's Navy "The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era"

Feeding Nelson's Navy "The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era"

Macdonald, Janet

Frontline Books

This celebration of the Georgian sailor's diet reveals how the navy's administrators fed a fleet of more than 150,000 men, in ships that were often at sea for months on end and that had no recourse to either refrigeration or canning. Contrary to the prevailing image of rotten meat and weevily biscuits their diet was ...

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pvp.22,00 €

Jutland "The Naval Staff Appreciation"

Jutland "The Naval Staff Appreciation"

Mclaughlin, Stephen; Shliehauf, William

Seaforth Publishing

Jutland, the largest naval battle of the First World War, was the most controversial engagement in the Royal Navy's history. Falling well short of the total victory expected by the public, it rapidly sparked argument and ill-will within the Royal Navy, including disagreements among those in its highest echelons, many of whom had been directly ...

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pvp.37,00 €

La noche que ardió el Maine

La noche que ardió el Maine

Jordá, Rafael

Editorial Juventud, S.A.

A finales del siglo XIX una España decadente se enfrenta a tumultos en sus colonias. Estados Unidos, la entonces emergente potencia mundial, está promoviendo una sedición. En La Habana, la brutal explosión del crucero norteamerciano Maine precipitará los acontecimientos. Estados Unidos declara la guerra. Los españoles son insultados en los tabloides norteamericanos, y en la ...

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pvp.19,00 €

The Sailing Frigate 'A History in Ship Models'

The Sailing Frigate 'A History in Ship Models'

Gardiner, Robert

Seaforth Publishing

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique ...

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pvp.26,00 €

A Shipyard at War "Unseen Photographs from John Brown's, Clydebank 1914 - 1918"

A Shipyard at War "Unseen Photographs from John Brown's, Clydebank 1914 - 1918"

Johnston, Ian

Seaforth Publishing

Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and the completion of the wartime programmes in 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels - major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a ...

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pvp.46,00 €

Cruise Ships "The Small-Scale Fleet"

Cruise Ships "The Small-Scale Fleet"

Smith, Peter C.

Pen and Sword

Peter C. Smith presents us here with the second release in his visually splendid Cruise Ships series. Whilst his first book concerned itself with the large-scale ships currently cruising through our seas (those weighing 40,000 GT and more) this volume focusses on the other end of the market; the ships that weigh in at less ...

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pvp.43,00 €

John and Sebastian Cabot "The Discovery of North America"

John and Sebastian Cabot "The Discovery of North America"

Beazley, Charles Raymond

Pen and Sword

A Classic in the History of Exploration, a Judicious Account of the Role of the Cabots in the Discovery of the New World
John Cabot, Giovanni Caboto in his native Italian, led an expedition to the New World in 1497 on behalf of King Henry VII of England. He is considered the first European to ...

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pvp.25,00 €

British Submarines At War 1914 - 1918

British Submarines At War 1914 - 1918

Gray, Edwyn A.

Pen and Sword

Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an international reputation for being second-to-none in evoking the claustrophobic horror of war beneath the waves. Accurate in detail, yet written with humanity and humor, it ...

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pvp.19,00 €

T E Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol "The Royal Navy's Role in Creating The Legend"

T E Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol "The Royal Navy's Role in Creating The Legend"

Allen, John Johnson; Johnson Allen, John

Pen and Sword

Although many books have been written about T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, none before has fully explored the pivotal role of the Royal Navy in the Red Sea at the time. This is the first book to be written about the Navy's role in the success of the Arab Revolt in the creation ...

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pvp.29,00 €