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  • The Wager

    by David Grann ...
    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read'** Guardian‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator‘A cracking yarn… Grann’s taste for desperate predicaments finds its ... ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Coastal Patrol

    Royal Navy Airship Operations During the Great War 1914-1918

    by Brian J. Turpin ...
    In the summer of 1915 the Royal Naval Air Service found itself engaged in an unexpected war at sea, the fight to prevent the German submarine fleet from disrupting the flow of vital supplies to the British Isles, necessary for the conduct of the war. It was a war that had to be won because by the spring of 1917 the U-boat campaign against Allied merchant shipping was close to bringing the British ... Read more

    £7.99

  • The Anarchy

    The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

    by William Dalrymple ...
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ... ... Read more

    £7.99

  • A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks

    by Stewart Gordon ...
    Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the study of shipwrecks also makes for a new and very different understanding of world history. A History ... Read more

    £9.99

  • D-Day

    The Battle for Normandy: Discover the incredible true story of WW2’s pivotal battle on the 80th anniversary of D-Day

    by Antony Beevor ...
    This enhanced ebook contains scores of fascinating additional material, including astonishing black & white and colour footage taken at the time of the events:- Video introduction by Antony Beevor- 26 embedded film clips, including footage of the Normandy landings, firefights in the deadly bocage hedgerows, Allied bombing raids, Allied commanders, the liberation of Paris- Rarely seen original NBC ... Read more

    £7.99 £6.99

  • Bloody Okinawa

    The Last Great Battle of World War II

    by Joseph Wheelan ...
    A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind.On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945 ... Read more

    £8.49 £3.99

  • Olympic Titanic Britannic

    The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic Class

    by Simon Mills ...
    The Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons.The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to set sail. Of the three ships built, the first only lost the record for being the largest because she was beaten by the second, and they were both beaten by the third. The class was meant to secure the ... Read more

    £14.99

  • Unlocking the World

    Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

    by John Darwin ...
    From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Battle for the Falklands: The Winter War

    by Patrick Bishop, John Witherow ...
    ‘Boldly planned, bravely executed and brilliantly accomplished’ was Margaret Thatcher’s assessment of the Falklands campaign. But what did the war mean to the men in the trenches and below decks?This gripping first-hand account of the Falklands War, written by bestselling military historian Patrick Bishop and Sunday Times Editor John Witherow, reveals the true experiences of the British soldiers ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Empire of the Deep

    The Rise and Fall of the British Navy

    by Ben Wilson ...
    The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, ... Read more

    £2.99

  • The Barbary Pirates

    by C. S. Forester ...
    C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That's where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by pirates who snatched American merchant ships and imprisoned sailors - and the country's young, untested navy took on the task of fighting the pirates in their home waters. This ... Read more

    £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blenheim: Battle for Europe: How Two Men Stopped the French Conquest of Europe

    by Charles Spencer ...
    In the summer of 1704, French conquest seemed inevitable. In this bestselling history, Charles Spencer traces the story of how it was prevented.This is an epic history of how, as Louis the Great’s armies threatened total domination of Europe, poised to extend their frontier and install a French prince on the throne of Spain, two men came together with a daring plan to shut him down.John Churchill, ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Royal Navy Submarines

    1901 to the Present Day

    by Maurice Cocker ...
    This is a must-buy for the Royal Navy and Submarine enthusiast, being a complete directory of RN submarines from the outset to the present day. There is a wealth of detail on each class. Every entry contains the specification, launch dates of individual boats, details of evolving construction and armament and other salient information in a compact form.The high quality of the drawings of the ... Read more

    £5.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ship

    by C. S. Forester ...
    Story of a battle engaged in by a British light cruiser in the Mediterranean. HMS Artemis is part of an escort task force protecting a convoy of supplies desperately needed by the British forces in Malta. It follows the life of a Royal Navy light cruiser for a single action, including a detailed analysis of many of the men on board and the contribution they made. ... Read more

    £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Endeavour

    The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

    by Peter Moore ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science.From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty, the Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. It was also the name given to a commonplace, coal-carrying vessel bought by the Royal N ... Read more

    £9.49 £7.99

  • Titanic, First Accounts

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Nicholas Wade, Various ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic—in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover artThe Titanic, First Accounts graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W. Shutes, and the "unsinkable" Molly Brown. Full of historically accurate details and an afterword by the ... Read more

    £8.99

  • Dünkirchen 1940

    The German View of Dunkirk

    by Robert Kershaw ...
    'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' - The TimesThe British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history. The battle has captured the popular imagination through LIFE magazine ... Read more

    £6.99

  • East of Farewell

    by Howard Hunt ...
    East of Farewell, first published in 1942, is a realistic novel of life aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer in the North Atlantic during World War II. The book centers on the officers and crew, their interactions, their routine tasks aboard ship and as part of a larger convoy, the tensions between “regular navy” men and those serving for just the duration of the war, encounters with German U-boats, and ... Read more

    £1.51

  • Under the Red Sea Sun

    by Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg ...
    A Navy admiral’s firsthand account of the Allied salvage operation that played a key role in recovering North Africa from the Nazis during World War II.By 1942, Mussolini’s forces were on the run in East Africa. In order to slow the Allied advance, the Italians used audacious tactics—including making ports inoperable, leaving the Allies without the infrastructure necessary to continue the war ... Read more

    £10.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saltpeter

    The Mother of Gunpowder

    by David Cressy ...
    This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties. Derived from soil enriched with dung and urine, it provided the heart or 'mother' of gunpowder, without which no musket or cannon could ... Read more

    £29.99

  • How to Lose a War at Sea

    Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders

    by Bill Fawcett ...
    Series series How to Lose Series
    An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disastersFrom the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of insufficient planning, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others were caused by ideas that didn't hold water in the first place. In glorious ... Read more

    £4.99

  • The Last Grain Race

    by Eric Newby ...
    An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent – set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transportation of grain from Australia to Europe. Every year from 1921 to 1939, the vessels involved in the ... Read more

    £6.99 £4.99

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    by William Bligh ...
    William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred. William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were expelled from the "Bounty" onto a small boat and began the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to protection ... Read more

    £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Man Off

    A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas

    by Matt Lewis ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA brilliantly written, hour-by-hour account of an ocean tragedy and the inexperienced marine biologist who saved the ship's crew._____________________________The waters of Antarctica, June 6th 1998. 23-year-old Matt Lewis has just started his dream job. An observer aboard a deep-sea fishing boat, he is mesmerized by his new surroundings: glistening ... ... Read more

    £4.99