Naval category: 2015 books
by Campbell McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The biggest shipping loss of both world wars was the hospital ship Britannic, at almost 50,000 tons. Supposedly safe to travel the seas, many hospital ships were lost in both wars. From the smallest of motor launches through steam yachts and converted ocean liners, Campbell McCutcheon tells the story...
La bataille de l'Atlantique
1939-1945, la plus longue campagne de la guerre
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de l’Atlantique en moins d’une heure !
Le 3 septembre 1939 à 21 heures débute la plus longue campagne de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’enjeu pour les Allemands est capital : obtenir la suprématie dans l’océan Atlantique...
by Philip MacDougall
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Georgian London was the hub of the world’s largest industrial-military complex, underpinning and securing a global trading empire that was entirely dependent on the Royal Navy for its existence. Philip MacDougall explores the bureaucratic web that operated within the wider city area before giving...
Arming the Royal Navy, 1793–1815
The Office of Ordnance and the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an extended period of time.
Captain Cook's War & Peace
The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? As this new book shows, by that date he had become supremely and uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration.
This was a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, but...
by Frank Pope
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine.
5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation 30 miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables and stuck fast. With 600 feet of freezing water...
Cry from the Deep
The Sinking of the Kursk, the Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New Russia to the Ultimate Test
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post–Cold War regime.
What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to acknowledge their most prized submarine was in...
by John Biddulph
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
A fascinating account of events that took place at the Malabar Coast during the mid-19th Century, including the machinations of the powerful East India Company, the rule of the Moghul, and the activities of pirates such as the fearsome Captain Kidd.
by Søren Nørby
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
De ti torpedomissilbåde af Willemoes-klassen, der tjente Søværnet fra 1974-2000, markerede højdepunktet i det danske torpedobådsvåbens 121årige historie. I denne bog skildres i ord og billeder disse fremragende orlogsfartøjer, der alt for tidligt måtte mærke skærebrænderens sviende bid.
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Scia di morte
L'ultimo viaggio del Lusitania
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 4, 2015
È una splendida giornata di maggio del 1915, una di quelle rare giornate di brezza lieve, mare calmo e bel sole, quando il Lusitania, il piú grande transatlantico dell’epoca, un «levriero» capace di sostenere una velocità di oltre venticinque nodi, inferiore soltanto a quella dei cacciatorpediniere...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
The present sketch of Raleigh's life is the first attempt which has been made to portray his personal career disengaged from the general history of his time.
by Martina Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
The Vikings burst onto the scene in a flash, startling the world with the reach and extent of their raids and the overwhelming destruction they wrought. Their unconventional war strategies, which left the enemy helpless and defenseless, built their reputation as brutal, bloodthirsty barbarians with...
The Sea Devil
The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colours sailed out of a quiet anchorage in Germany, loaded with cargo and apparently bound for Australia. Her true mission was quite different.
The ship was, in fact, the SMS Seeadler, commanded by swashbuckling German aristocrat Felix von...
Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations:
A Memoir and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations" is part history book, part memoir, written by Bernie Webber, recipient of the Coast Guard's highest award, the Gold Life-saving Medal, and hero of the Disney movie The Finest Hours. While the public will recognize Webber's name from the movie and the...