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  • Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism

    by Talbot C. Imlay ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    In this illuminating and comprehensive account, Talbot C. Imlay chronicles the life of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement in the Unites States during and following the Second World War. The first book to detail Streit's life, work and significance, it reveals the importance of public political cultures in shaping US foreign relations. In 1939, Streit published Union Now which ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • 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

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  • 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

  • The Coral Sea 1942

    The first carrier battle

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 214 - Campaign
    A detailed account of the first check of Japanese naval expansion in the Pacific.The Battle of the Coral Sea is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another. Instead, aircraft launched from carrier decks were sent out to attack the enemy with bombs and torpedoes.In May of 1942, the Japanese fleet moved on Port Moresby, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Raising the Hunley

    The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine

    by Brian Hicks, Schuyler Kropf ...
    The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of the Hunley remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Civil War. Then, on August 8, 2000, with ... Read more

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  • Under Pressure

    The Final Voyage of Submarine S-Five

    by A. J. Hill ...
    Hanging on display in the United States Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., is a battered and scratched steel plate, two feet in diameter, edged with more than one hundred little semicircles. For more than eighty years, people have wondered how it came to be there and at the story it could tell.Under Pressure: The Final Voyage of Submarine S-Five is that story. On Monday, August 30, 1920, the S-Five, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • British Frigate vs French Frigate

    1793–1814

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 52 - Duel
    Alongside full-colour artwork, this book reveals why glamorous but bloody single-ship duels between Britain and France have been immortalized in film and literature, from Horatio Hornblower to Jack Aubrey.In the Age of Fighting Sail (1650–1820), ambitious officers of the navies of many nations sought command of a frigate. Speedy, nimble and formidably armed, frigates often operated independently, ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • USN Destroyer vs IJN Destroyer

    The Pacific 1943

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 48 - Duel
    This book covers the fierce night naval battles fought between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during late 1943 as the Allies advanced slowly up the Solomons Islands toward the major Japanese naval base at Rabaul.During this period, several vicious actions were fought featuring the most modern destroyers of both navies. Throughout most of 1942, the Imperial Navy had held a marked edge ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • The Warship Mary Rose

    The Life & Times of King Henry VIII's Flagship

    by David Childs ...
    This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artefacts in the new museum in Portsmouth.Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognisable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the extraordinary richness of the massive collection of artefacts ... Read more

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  • Merchantmen-at-arms: the British Merchants' Service in the War

    by Captain Sir David William Bone ...
    WRITTEN largely between the shipping crisis of 1917 and the surrender of German undersea arms at Harwich on November 20, 1918, this book is an effort to record a seaman's impressions of the trial through which the Merchants' Service has come in the war. It is necessarily halting and incomplete. The extent of the subject is perhaps beyond the safe traverse of a mariner's dead reckoning. Policies of ... Read more

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  • Titanic and Her Sisters Olympic and Britannic

    by Peter Davies-Garner ...
    Series Book 18 - ShipCraft
    The ShipCraft series explores the iconic pleasure vessels Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic in fully illustrated detail for building your own model ship.In the first of the ShipCraft series to cover non-naval vessels, this meticulously researched and illustrated volume looks at the legendary cruise ship RMS Titanic and her sisters, Olympic and Britannic. Written for the serious model ship builder, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anatomy of Sail

    The Yacht Dissected and Explained

    by Nic Compton ...
    An encyclopedic compendium of every element of a yacht, this book contains a wealth of information for the aficionado as well as the newcomer, taking apart the sailboat to explore every part of it in depth. Gloriously illustrated with beautiful photography and explanatory diagrams, each page is packed with fascinating and satisfying detail.Looking first at the history of yachting and boatbuilding ... Read more

    $48.59 USD