Naval & Mercantile History

Naval & Mercantile History

Sort by: Product Code: Title Our Price Date added Result pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 » »» More Info YOUNG NELSONS Boy Sailors during the Napoleonic Wars Product Code: 12716 Drawing on many first-hand accounts, letters, poems and writings, this book tells the dramatic story of Britain's boy sailors during the Napoleonic Wars. During the Napoleonic Wars, these children, some as young as eight or nine, were also fighting for the very survival of Britain. Retail Price: £17.99 Our price: £6.95 save 61%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info PIRACY The Complete History Product Code: 12715 Piracy isn't a thing of the past - it's actually on the increase! Reports show a sharp rise in pirate attacks. This definitive new book helps explain why. It chronicles the brutal story of piracy from the earliest times to the present day. Retail Price: £17.99 Our price: £6.95 save 61%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISERS Myoko and Takao classes Product Code: 12700 This volume is devoted to the largest, fastest and most powerful heavy cruisers of their era. Japanese striving for superiority in individual ships produced designs whose unusual lines, massive superstructure and heavy armament have made them a challenge to modelmakers ever since. Combined with a... Retail Price: £24.99 Our price: £5.95 save 76%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH And His Brave Adventures Product Code: 12677 Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas. However this was only one, small part in a life that was filled with extraordinary adventures. Retail Price: £10.99 Our price: £5.95 save 46%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info RODNEY AND THE BREAKING OF THE LINE Product Code: 12642 Admiral Rodney’s victory over the French at the battle of the Saints in the Caribbean in 1782 is often overshadowed by Nelson’s later triumphs. In this fresh study of the man and the battle, Peter Trew sheds new light on Rodney and his revolutionary tactics Retail Price: £19.99 Our price: £9.95 save 50%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info ABOVE US THE WAVES The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes Product Code: 12610 Inspired by a successful Italian midget submarine attack on British ships in Alexandria harbour, this is the classic account of Britain's riposte. It details the attack on the Tirpitz, midget sub ops. in Norway and the Mediterranean; attacks on ‘Fortress Europe' including Normandy; and in the Fa... Retail Price: £9.99 Our price: £4.95 save 50%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Product Code: 12612 The war beneath the oceans in the Second World War was a struggle fought out at sea - but also in backrooms and labs on land where boffins battled to develop new technologies and counter innovations developed by the enemy. This book tells the story of that desperate and lethal struggle. Retail Price: £25.00 Our price: £12.50 save 50%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE:Winston Churchill and the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse Product Code: 12599 The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse to Japanese bombers in December 1941 gave Churchill his biggest shock of the war, and spelled doom for Britain's Far Eastern Empire. In this hard-hitting account, author Arthur Nicholson lays the blame squarely on Churchill himself. Retail Price: £19.99 Our price: £7.95 save 60%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info CONWAYS: ANATOMY OF THE SHIP: THE BATTLESHIP YAMATO Product Code: 12593 The battleship Yamato was a tremendous achievement for the Imperial Japanese Navy. With the greatest displacement, biggest guns and heaviest armour of all time, Yamato and her sister Musashi were the ultimate battleships. Everything about them was gigantic - for example each main-armament turret ... Retail Price: £30.00 Our price: £22.00 save 27%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list More Info CONWAYS: SEND A GUNBOAT: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854-1904 Product Code: 10172 Since its original publication, Send a Gunboat has remained the standard reference work on the remarkable story of the Victorian Royal Navy’s Fleet of small warships, which enforced the Pax Britannica around the world for half a century.As Professor Andrew Lambert states in his Forewod to this re... Retail Price: £26.00 Our price: £19.95 save 23%    Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Buy Now Add to wish list