Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“roy bagshaw”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roy bagshaw”
Skip side bar filters

  • RAF Little Rissington

    The Central Flying School, 1946–76

    by Roy Bagshaw, Alan Pollock, Malcolm Thomas, Ray Deacon ...
    In the three decades between 1946 and 1976, the Central Flying School which was based at Little Rissington, produced over 6000 fledgling Qualified Flying Instructors and continually endeavoured to monitor and improve the wider Royal Air Force's standards of flying, based on its sound, proven instructional methods and a wealth of tradition extending back to Upavon in 1912. With the cessation of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Commander

    The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain

    by Stephen Taylor ...
    "Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The GuardianEdward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Flagship

    The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

    by Mike Carlton ...
    The cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on JapanIn 1924, the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I was sunk off Sydney Heads. Once she had been the pride of the navy and the nation. She had saved Australia from an attack by a German squadron in the Pacific in World War I.But after the war she was obsolete, and a victim in the race to disarm after WWI. It was a day of national ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Sorry Saga of the Brewster Buffalo: A Flying Coffin to the U.S. Marines, but a Pearl to the Finns

    by Daniel Ford ...
    A group of Internet aviation fans once debated the subject of the worst fighter of World War II. Their hands-down favorite: the Brewster Buffalo. Two books are titled The World's Worst Aircraft. The Buffalo is the only fighter from any era to have a chapter in both of them.The Royal Air Force fobbed the Brewster fighter onto the Fleet Air Arm and colonial squadrons; the U.S. Navy gave it to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Sea of Thunder

    Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945

    by Evan Thomas ...
    Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval battle ever fought.Told from both the American and Japanese sides, through the eyes of commanders and sailors of both navies, Thomas's history adds an important new dimension to our understanding of World War II.Drawing on oral histories, diaries, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Russo-Japanese Naval War 1905 Vol. I

    by Piotr Olender ...
    Series series Maritime
    Book describes technical aspects of the Russo-Japanese Naval War. Contains descriptions of all involved ships, Russian and Japanese ones. Maps, photos. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914

    by Geoffrey Bennett ...
    A history of two South American World War I naval battles between Germany and Great Britain.The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany's most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged immediately.On ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry V's Navy

    The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422

    by Ian Friel ...
    WITHOUT HENRY V'S NAVY, the Battle of Agincourt would never have happened. Henry's fleet played a major – if often unrecognised – part in enabling the king to come within reach of final victory in the Hundred Years War against France. Henry's navy was one of the most successful fleets deployed by England before the time of Elizabeth I. The royal fleet was transformed in Henry's short reign from a ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Submarine Stories

    Recollections from the Diesel Boats

    by Paul L Stillwell USNR (Ret.) ...
    Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline—and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The story of these boats, their technological evolution and tactical value, is also ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Utmost Gallantry

    The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812

    by Kevin D McCranie ...
    Focusing on the oceanic war rather than on the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at sea, one the largest navies in the world, the other a small, upstart navy just three decades old. While American naval leadership searched for a means of contesting Britain’s naval dominance, the English sought to destroy the U.S. Navy and ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Citizen Sailors

    Chronicles of Canada's Naval Reserve, 1910-2010

    Edited by Richard H. Gimblett, Michael L. Hadley ...
    This commemorative volume produced on the occasion of the centennial of the Canadian Navy, 1910-2010, records a special kind of dual citizenship: Canadians exercising the profession of the sea in their nation’s service, while also living out the demands of their civilian occupations in their home communities. The perspectives of the part-time citizen-sailors who have made up Canada’s Naval Reserve ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fog of Peace and War Planning

    Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty

    Edited by Talbot C. Imlay, Monica Duffy Toft ...
    Series series Strategy and History
    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 future war? Most interwar volumes examine only the 1920s and the 1930s. This new volume goes back, and forward in time, to draw on a greater expanse of history in order to tease out lessons for ... Read more

    $77.99 USD