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SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN AFGHANISTAN
Product Code: 8502

A Sergeant-Major’s memoir of the 1838-39 Afghan war. Has uncomfortble parallels with today’s British commitment in Afghanistan.

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SUBMARINE MINES AND TORPEDOES AS APPLIED TO HARBOUR DEFENCE (1889)
Product Code: 5947

A profusely illustrated user’s manual on mine and submarine harbour defences in the late 1880s. A treasure trove of technical know-how.

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BRITAIN’S SEA SOLDIERS: A RECORD OF THE ROYAL MARINES DURING THE WAR 1914-1919
Product Code: 9708

Massively detailed and complete history of the Royal Marines in WW1 from Antwep to Zeebrugge via Gallipoli, Africa and Russia.

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NAVAL GUNS IN FLANDERS 1914-1915
Product Code: 7312

Naval guns in action on the werstern front in the early days of the Great War. An interesting, well-illustrated personal account of a neglected corner of the Great War.

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BLOCKING OF ZEEBRUGGE
Product Code: 6743

The Zeebrugge Raid, St. George’s Day, 1918, in which the author won the VC.

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BEFORE THE BELLS HAVE FADED: The Sinking of HMS Formidable January 1, 1915
Product Code: 10051

First full modern account of the sinking of the battleship HMS Formidable by U-24 on January 1st 1915. Lists all 547 crew members who were lost.

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CONWAYS: THE 44 GUN FRIGATE USS CONSTITUTION: “OLD IRONSIDES” Anatomy of the Ship Series
Product Code: 9901

The Constitution was one of the US Navy’s first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean.Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon.Her most famous encounter, after which she became...

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CONWAYS: THE SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: Anatomy of the Ship
Product Code: 9824

1992 marked the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus.The details of Columbus’s ships - the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta - remain lost to historians, for the ships were built before the first manuals of shipbuiding were written, and no documentatin or ...

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CONWAYS: MINIATURE MERCHANT SHIPS
Product Code: 9791

Written by the editor of Model Shipwrigt, this volume is separated into two sections. In the first, the author discusses research, where to obtain data and plans, tools and materials, and describes in detail the construction of 1/1200 models, each accompanied by photographs of the ship and modell...

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Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the atlantic to the pacific; performed in the years 1819–20, in his majesty’s ships hecla and griper
Product Code: 9786

This was the first of three expeditions by Parry for the purpose of discovering a route from Greenland to the Bering Strait - the so called 'Northwest Passage' and he achieved a good part of this on the voyage in 1819-20. Travelling in the ships HMS Hecla and HMS Griper, Parry was able to map lar...

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