著者:Paul Strathern
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年10月21日
“Europe is a molehill….”
Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer.
We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.” ーNapoleon
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This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Introduction
PERIOD OF OAR AND CLOSE FIGHTING
I. Salamis, B.C. 480
II. Actium, B.C. 31
III. Svold Is……続きを見る
A companion volume to his bestselling ‘Armageddon’, Max Hastings’ account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.
Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever……続きを見る
I. COLONIAL ADVENTURERS IN LITTLE SHIPS
II. THE PRIVATEERS OF '76
III. OUT CUTLASES AND BOARD!
IV. THE FAMOUS DAYS OF SALEM PORT
V. YANKEE VIKINGS AND NEW TRADE ROUTES
VI. "FREE TRADE AND SAILORS' R……続きを見る
著者:Richard Hill
出版社: Lewin of Greenwich Organisation
発売日: 2012年11月29日
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin is perhaps best known for his role as Chief of the Defence Staff during the Falklands War. However, this was merely the culmination of a remarkable career that spanne……続きを見る
A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement.
In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters……続きを見る
William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mut……続きを見る
著者:Jay Bahadur
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年07月19日
Soon to be a major motion picture
The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating……続きを見る
著者:Tom Clancy
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
An in-depth look at the United States Marine Corps-in the New York Times bestselling tradition of Submarine, Armored Cav, and Fighter Wing
Only the best of the best can be Marines. And only Tom Clan……続きを見る
Classic work of history. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importan……続きを見る
著者:Richard O'Kane
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年11月11日
The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles.
Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the ……続きを見る
著者:Paul Berkman
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年09月10日
The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades. This fundamental shift in the boundary conditions of the Arctic Ocean will create a n……続きを見る
A key naval action that confirmed British control of the Indian Ocean and its rich trade at a crucial point in the Napoleonic Wars.
The battle of Pulo Aor is today rather overshadowed by the contemp……続きを見る
The second and final volume of the definitive account of the German submarine war.
Acclaimed on its publication in 1997 ('should become the standard history of the Unterseeboote' - Washington Post) ……続きを見る
著者:Lincoln Paine
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月29日
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stre……続きを見る
著者:David Brown
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年07月04日
This volume deals with the first 15 months of the Mediterranean Campaign including the preparations for war, the effect of the entry of Italy into the war in June, 1940, the tragic actions against t……続きを見る
著者:Leonard James
出版社: Bretwalda Books
発売日: 2015年05月11日
An ebook contianing eyewitness accounts of the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in the first month of the war. Complete with explanatory text and background on the men and mach……続きを見る
A group of Navy SEALs are called in to clear a plane of passengers on board a flight with a bomb on it. After a mix up in intelligence, the SEALs are forced to watch helplessly as the real doomed fl……続きを見る
SEAL Team Six's team leader, James Riley, has been honorably discharged. Despite their heavy hearts, the SEALs continue their training exercises without missing a beat. In his new job at the CIA, R……続きを見る
How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty? The perspective of military planners is a key organizing framework: do they see themselves as preparing to administer a peace, or preparing to fight a……続きを見る
The Royal Navy at the start of the twenty-first century had undergone the most remarkable transformation. The Fleet is today the smallest since the start of the Napoleonic wars as surface vessels ar……続きを見る
The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force.
On 5 April 1982, three days after Argentina invaded the Falkland I……続きを見る
The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.
In August 1930 a Norwegian sloop sailing in the Arctic Ocean moored at a remote i……続きを見る
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index
CONTENTS
Preface
Carlo Zeno: Hero of the Venetian Republic
Sir Francis Drake: Rover and Sea Ran……続きを見る
Six men of the Elite Navy SEAL Team have been specially selected for a mission in Southeast Asia where an extremist organization is set to create a new political party and religion to get rid of the……続きを見る
SEAL Team Six gets another mission from General Richards. This time they had to annihilate a terrorist in Brazil. They infiltrated there and with the help of the other SEAL Teams managed to kill the……続きを見る
著者:Joshua M. Smith
出版社: Goose Lane Editions and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society
発売日: 2012年06月08日
As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between pr……続きを見る
A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD THE SHIP GLOBE, OF NANTUCKET, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, Jan. 1824 AND THE JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS ON THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNER……続きを見る
Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analyst……続きを見る
Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some ……続きを見る