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Naval & Mercantile History
Naval warfare is as old as conflict on land and as our title implies, maritime warfare is as important to us as terrestial battles. From the great galley battles of ancient Greece and Rome, Salamis and Actium, through the Barbary Coast pirates, the Spanish Armada and the long wars between England, France and Holland for control of colonial trade, control of the seas has meant political and economic power. Finally, with the sea battles of the Napoleonic Wars and the age of Nelson, maritime warfare entered the modern era. The two world wars saw the final end to Britain's domination of the seas and the emergence of the US as the maritime superpower. The Naval and Military Press has a whole fleet of books covering the whole history of warfare at sea, just look and see!
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
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