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'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh……続きを見る

The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering. When the engineers of the early nineteenth century experimented with steamboats they chose the paddle wheel as the for……続きを見る

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent marit……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." ー Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a J……続きを見る

This book offers a unique and scholarly perspective on a little-studied subject: maritime crime and policing. The seas and oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface and 90 percent of world trad……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Number 1: Pearl Harbor Revised 2024 eBook Edition Number 1 includes the following articles covering many aspects of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: (1) The R……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Coverage of a variety of subjects covering various aspects of World War II: (1) Communist Guerrilla Warfare Against the Japanese: Base A……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series eBook Edition 2022 World War II in Review Number 3 contains the following articles on warships of the U.S., Britain, Germany, Japan and Italy: (1) USS Fran……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition This is covers the following warships that saw service in World War II: (1) Germany’s Battleship Bismarck (2) Sinking of the Bismarck, 2……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Coverage of a variety of topics on World War II in these 17 articles: (1) Don’t Forget the Privates: The Infantryman Won the War in Euro……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2022 eBook Edition This issue presents articles on the following 16 World War II topics: (1) USS Alabama BB-60: American Battleship (2) The Aerodynamic Dev……続きを見る

The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790sー“millions for defense, not a cent for tribute.” Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomat……続きを見る

Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. A Sunday Times Bestseller 'Electric... Outstanding.' Guardian In March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squad……続きを見る

Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometim……続きを見る

On the same day the Japanese surrender ended World War II, Vietnamese nationalists declared independence from France. Within weeks, France sought to reestablish colonial rule. American merchant seam……続きを見る

The gripping true story of bitter rivalries on the high seas, a brilliant 17th-Century pirate captain, and the two adventurous men determined to find his treasure. Captained by English nobleman-turn……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Next morning at about 6 o'clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone……続きを見る

On March 1st 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered Operation Weserubung: the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable iron ore being d……続きを見る

On 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy's top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navy's main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The audacious attack, by a German U-boat, was th……続きを見る

Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting intelligence on naval installations. Recruited by Mans……続きを見る

The remarkable true story. At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to ……続きを見る

This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes. Sea Dog Bamse tells the story of a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian ……続きを見る

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, jou……続きを見る

The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Roya……続きを見る

Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another……続きを見る

The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's worst-ever inland waterway accident. Almost 650 Princ……続きを見る

The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incid……続きを見る

The James Caird is an unlikely hero, a 23-foot lifeboat that completed the most desperate and celebrated open boat voyage in history. On board were Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley, no……続きを見る

Between 15 June 1968 and 13 May 1996, the Polaris submarines of the 10th Submarine Squadron carried out a total of 229 patrols, travelling over 2 million miles. Wherever you sit on the nuclear debat……続きを見る

This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre which……続きを見る