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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot o……続きを見る

For viewers of BBC One’s ‘Britain and the Sea’, ‘Leviathan’ is a must-read; overturning long-held beliefs about our ancestry and weaving together the disparate strands that made the fabric of the Em……続きを見る

August 29, 1986, marked the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Naval Air Reserve. On that day in 1916, the Naval Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1917 provided funds for the establishment of a naval fly……続きを見る

Brian Herbert is part of a growing movement across the United States to right the wrong. The Forgotten Heroes is a history of these unsung heroes and a plea for justice. The United States Merchant M……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual provides tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) for Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF)……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers drill and ceremonies. This volume, part two of two, covers parades, battalion and re……続きを見る

Nineteen months before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction……続きを見る

Philip Keith's Fire Base Illingworth is an epic, never-before-told true story of a North Vietnamese Army attack and how the men of this nearly overrun Fire Base survived. In the early morning hours ……続きを見る

'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' Observer Nelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest……続きを見る

A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler’s most terrifying battleship – the legendary Tirpitz – and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Na……続きを見る

James, Rajah of Sarawak,KCB (born James Brooke; 29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868) was a British adventurer whose exploits in areas of the British Empire led to him becoming the first White Rajah of Sar……続きを見る

This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.S. Navy fighter squadron during the invasion of French North Africa in World War II. Lieutenants Word……続きを見る

Charles StewartÆs life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick OÆBrienÆs fictional hero, Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy captain and s……続きを見る

Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines and he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual provides techniques and procedures for Marine Corps rifle marksmanship. All Marines share a……続きを見る

From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the R……続きを見る

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas ……続きを見る

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon……続きを見る

This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern ……続きを見る

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe. With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day m……続きを見る

This new book brings together Britain’s leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last thr……続きを見る

Die spannende Geschichte der klassischen Freibeuter wird hier erzählt. Wer waren die verwegenen Männer, die mit ihrer Totenkopfflagge Angst und Schrecken verbreiteten? Dieses Buch lässt das Zeitalte……続きを見る

In this unusual book, Benstead tells how the men of the British Isles have matched their skill and courage against the menace of the surrounding sea. The fishermen, life-boatmen, the smugglers and h……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual is to be used as a tool to help ensure that the values of the Corps continue to be reinforc……続きを見る

To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has b……続きを見る

The remarkable true story of Dudley “Mush” Morton, the most admiredーand fearedーsubmarine commander of World War II Mush Morton was a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completel……続きを見る

Of the many facets of the Napoleonic wars there are a vast number of books written in English on the climatic battle of the age of sail, perhaps only eclipsed by the wealth of material written on th……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers the concept for the projection of naval power ashore. Like its predecessor, the appr……続きを見る

CARRIER STRIKEThe Battle of the Santa Cruz IslandsOctober 1942By Eric HammelThe Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, a strategic naval action in the bitter Guadalcanal Campaign, was historys fourth car……続きを見る

The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time In 1941, the architects of Japan's sne……続きを見る