Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Number 1: Pearl Harbor 2023 eBook Edition Number 1 includes the following articles covering many aspects of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: (1) The Road to P……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
On the outbreak of war in 1914, the Royal Navy found it required more small craft than it possessed to carry out minesweeping, anti-submarine patrols and coastal defense. This led to the formation o……続きを見る
Here we have presented the remarkable life-story of Emma, Lady Hamilton -a story which transcends the bounds of romance and fascinates and baffles the reader by turns. Indeed, no two critics of this……続きを見る
From merchantman to man-of-war…
William Richardson was always certain he would be a seaman. His father and all his brothers were mariners so it was not unusual that he should go to sea in his turn. ……続きを見る
The book 'The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism' is an exciting review of the history of sea travels from the earliest times to the XIX century. It includes the first mentions o……続きを見る
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History is a history of naval warfare by United States naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and ei……続きを見る
This book presents the work accomplished by the Royal Navy in combating the unrestricted submarine warfare instituted by the Central Powers in February, 1917. It is consequently largely concerned wi……続きを見る
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.
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In March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squad……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
著者：Ron Cope
出版社： Clink Street Publishing
発売日： 2018年04月10日
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
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 the bottom of the sea at th……続きを見る
This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom a……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
July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.
Using XE-cr……続きを見る
著者：Michael Royal
出版社： Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
発売日： 2023年03月22日
This book is a combination of thoughts and feelings that have been placed on paper in different forms and on a couple of pages by other individuals, veterans that have written a feeling and posted i……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
