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  • The Blockade Busters

    Cheating Hitler's Reich of Vital War Supplies

    by Ralph Barker ...
    A detailed history of three British World War II blockade runs to get vital supplies from Sweden past the Germans.The Blockade Busters recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a thirty-nine-year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940. He set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ship Busters!

    A Classic Account of RAF Torpedo-Bombers in WWII

    by Ralph Barker ...
    A "vividly told" history of torpedo attacks from the air in the Second World War, by a member of the Royal Air Force ( The Sunday Times).Low-level strikes against enemy shipping by torpedo-carrying aircraft were perhaps the most dangerous forms of air attack developed during WWII, and few isolated actions had such a direct impact on naval and military actions. This book tells the story of the RAF ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Blue Mountain

    The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

    by Ralph Barker ...
    'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.'The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Men of the Bombers

    Crews Who Fought & Won the Campaign

    by Ralph Barker ...
    This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the 'Phoney War' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a nightmare on long flights and when the crews suffered more from lack of oxygen and heating than from ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict

    The Life and Death of an Aviation Pioneer

    by Ralph Barker ...
    Captain William Lancaster was the subject of public attention and controversy during his life as a record-breaking flyer, because of his love affair with Jessie Chubbie Miller (dubbed the Australian Aviatrix) and as the defendant in one of the most sensational murder trials of the twentieth century. His disappearance, which occurred during an attempt to break the London to Cape Town record in 1933 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ship-Busters

    by Ralph Barker ...
    Series series Stackpole Military History Series
    Epic story of low-level strikes on Axis navies in World War IIOne of the most dangerous forms of air attack used during the warWritten by a participantThis stirring book recounts how British torpedo-bombers took the war to enemy naval fleets and shipping vessels during World War II. Episodes covered include the attack by a single plane on a German battleship, the torpedoing of the Gneisenau in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Down in the Drink

    Their Deadliest Enemy Was the Sea

    by Ralph Barker ...
    To crash or be shot down into the sea is a terrifying experience. And to escape to tell the tale is a rare and remarkable achievement. But that is precisely what each of the World War Two heroes described here has done; they have come 'down in the drink' and miraculously survived. In doing so, they have all qualified for the 'Goldfish Club'. Ralph Barker tells the hair-raising and inspiring ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Pirate Collection

    by Jeffery Farnol,Stephen W. Meader,Benjamin Barker,Ralph D. Paine,Rafael Sabatini,Edward Ingle,Peter B. Kyne,Charles Boardman Hawes,Max Pemberton,Frank R. Stockton,Harry Collingwood,Ford Paul,John Barrow,Emerson Hough,Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    A collection of some of the world's most beloved pirate stories with an active table of contents.Works include:"Black Bartlemy's Treasure" by Jeffery Farnol"The Black Buccaneer" by Stephen W. Meader "Blackbeard" by Benjamin Barker"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" Ralph D. Paine"Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini "Captain Richard Ingle" by Edward Ingle"Captain Scraggs" by Peter B. Kyne"The Great Quest" by ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Hurricats

    The Incredible True Story of Britain's 'Kamikaze' Pilots of World War Tw

    by Ralph Barker ...
    Narrated by Andrew Cullum ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 59 min

    The Incredible True Story of Britain's 'Kamikaze' Pilots of World War Two'An unforgettable tale of high-stakes action, ingenuity and raw courage. This war story's got it all' Rowland White, Author of Vulcan 607'IF WE FAIL IN THIS, THEN WE LOSE THE WAR'With the Battle of Britain won, Winston Churchill and his military chiefs faced an even more fearsome challenge in the Battle of the Atlantic ... Read more

    $14.28 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Last Blue Mountain, The

    The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

    by Ralph Barker ...
    Narrated by Stewart Crank ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    ‘When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.’The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Goodnight, Sorry for Sinking You

    Digitally narrated using a synthesized voice

    by Ralph Barker ...
    Narrated by William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice) ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.On 6th November 1942 the S.S. City of Cairo was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-68 in the middle of the South Atlantic.Nearly 300 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Children of the Benares

    Digitally narrated using a synthesized voice

    by Ralph Barker ...
    Narrated by William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice) ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.When the passenger liner City of Benares sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940 she was carrying 90 evacuee children ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus