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  • Vikings

    by History Nerds ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of the Vikings
    Discover the fascinating world of the Vikings, the legendary Norse seafarers who transformed the history of Europe during the Viking Age. This engaging history book explores the daring voyages, epic battles, and rich culture of the Scandinavian warriors who sailed across the seas from the 8th to the 11th century.From their homeland in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, Viking explorers ventured across ... Read more

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  • Hunter Killers

    The Dramatic Untold Story of the Royal Navy's Most Secret Service

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.HUNTER KILLERS will follow the careers of four daring British submarine captains who risked their lives to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits consigned to the shadows until now. Their experiences encompass the span of the Cold War, from voyages in WW2-era submarines under Arctic ice to ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

    by David Graeber ...
    The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges ... Read more

    9,32 €

  • Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations

    by Dik Gregory, Paul Shanahan ...
    If human error only starts to explain how accidents happen in complex, adaptive systems, what does the rest of the explanation look like? And what can be done as a result? If complex systems are fundamentally different from merely complicated ones, what does this mean for us – the people who have to live and work in them?Through a re-analysis of real events, this book integrates recent thinking ... Read more

    29,78 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... Read more

    15,68 €

  • The Wager

    by David Grann ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'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'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman... ... Read more

    10,46 €

  • Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

    Enriched edition. Unraveling Naval Strategy: Insights into Maritime Warfare and World Conflict

    by Julian Stafford Corbett, Xavier Sutton ...
    In "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy," Julian Stafford Corbett delivers a seminal exploration of naval theory that profoundly shaped maritime policy in the early 20th century. Through a meticulous analysis of maritime warfare'—interweaving historical case studies and theoretical frameworks'—Corbett articulates key principles that govern naval operations. His writing, marked by clarity and ... Read more

    0,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blind Man's Bluff

    The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

    by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe secret history of America's submarine warfare is revealed for the first time in this fast-paced chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War.**"Vividly told, impressively documented." —**New York TimesFor decades, only a select and powerful few knew the truth about the submarines that silently roamed the ocean in danger and... ... Read more

    Was 14,99 € Now 12,99 €

  • Storm of Steel

    by Matthew Harffy ...
    Series Book 6 - The Bernicia Chronicles
    AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW: MATTHEW HARFFY'S UNMISSABLE NEW BERNICIA CHRONICLES NOVEL, BANE OF BERNICIA!Anglo-Saxon warlord Beobrand is plunged into a dark world of piracy and slavery when an old friend enlists his help to recover a kidnapped girl.AD 643. Embarking onto the wind-tossed seas in order to rescue the victim of a kidnapping by slavers, Beobrand pursues his quarry with single-minded ... Read more

    8,79 €

  • 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

    11,99 €

  • Rigging: Period Ships Models

    by Lennarth Petersson ...
    A fully illustrated guide to rigging models of historic ships with confidence and accuracy, using a model of the eighteenth-century HMS Melampus.The rigging of period ship models is the ultimate challenge for any modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile on mile of rigging, more than one thousand blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce this in scale, and yet retain an accurate ... Read more

    8,26 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Leyte, 1944

    Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execu

    by Milan Vego PhD. ...
    One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies’ first and most important major combined operation to liberate the Philippine archipelago. The stakes were high: a successful landing at Leyte was critical to a subsequent assault on Luzon and total control of the Philippines. If Japan lost the Philippines, its supply of oil and other strategic ... Read more

    27,55 €

  • U-Boat War Patrol

    The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564

    by Lawrence Paterson ...
    "[A] book of rare photographs . . . detailing life aboard a German Second World War submarine" from the author of Operation Colossus ( History Today).This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were "liberated" from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, ... Read more

    6,14 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pirates

    by Matthew West ...
    The thirty-year Golden Age of Piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men - and even a few women - to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes, revenge. The treasure taken in a single trip could net a captain many times the profit an average sailor might ... Read more

    1,81 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Machine

    How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    by Helen Czerski ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATIONFINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water</e... ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Wavewalker

    Breaking Free

    by Suzanne Heywood ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH‘This is a story of an epic chil... ... Read more

    17,80 €

  • Sunburst

    The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941

    by Mark Peattie ...
    This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the process of explaining the navy's essential strengths and weaknesses, the book provides the most detailed account available in English of Japan's naval air campaign over China from 1937 to ... Read more

    24,26 €

  • Flinders

    The Man Who Mapped Australia

    by Rob Mundle ...
    The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline.From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Carrier Clash

    by Eric Hammel ...
    CARRIER CLASHThe Invasion of Guadalcanal &the Battle of the Eastern SolomonsAugust 1942Eric HammelThe Battle of the Eastern Solomons was historys third carrier clash. A collision of U.S. Navy and Imperial Navy carriers in the wake of the invasion of Guadalcanalwhose airfield the United States desperately needed and the Japanese desperately wanted backthe battle was waged at sea and over ... Read more

    7,52 €

  • Lighthousekeeping

    by Jeanette Winterson ...
    From one of Britain’s best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and ... Read more

    8,05 €

  • The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783

    by Alfred Thayer Mahan ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I. Several ships were named USS Mahan, including the lead vessel of a class of destroyers. His research into naval History ... Read more

    0,90 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Highest Degree Tragic

    The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II

    by Donald M. Kehn Jr. ...
    In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. His research has uncovered evidence of ... Read more

    29,46 €

  • The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

    The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Carrier Strike

    by Eric Hammel ...
    CARRIER STRIKEThe Battle of the Santa Cruz IslandsOctober 1942By Eric HammelThe Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, a strategic naval action in the bitter Guadalcanal Campaign, was historys fourth carrier-versus-carrier naval battle. Though technically a Japanese victory, the battle proved to be the Empire of Japans last serious attempt to win the Pacific War by means of an all-out carrier ... Read more

    7,52 €