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by Lee Thomas Oxford
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
North Carolina's Hatteras Island was home to many Civil War firsts--among them the first Confederate capture of an armed Union vessel and the first combined amphibious assault of the Confederate army and navy. The Confederates' desire to regain control of this Outer Banks island and Hatteras Inlet saw...
by John Jordan, Stephen Dent
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Warship 2017 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery...
French Destroyers
Torpilleurs d'Escadres and Contre-Torpilleurs, 19221956
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Like its highly successful predecessors, French Battleships and French Cruisers, this beautifully presented book blends technical and historical analysis to produce the only comprehensive study of French destroyers in the English language. Between the world wars, France produced some of the largest...
by Tony Conder
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, canals formed the arteries of Britain. Most waterways were local concerns, carrying cargoes over short distances and fitted into regional groups with their own boat types linked to the major river estuaries. This new history of Britain's canals starts...
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume IV: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by...
by John Walker Guss
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Forts are a lasting tribute to the prominence of the US military, and Fort Pulaski stands among these magnificent fortresses. Overlooking the mouth of the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean, Fort Pulaski is named in honor of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero and father of the US Cavalry,...
Naval Frogmen
Wartime Underwater Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The first modern frogmen were the Italian commando frogmen of Decima Flottiglia MAS which was first in action in 1940. They were nicknamed Uomini Rana, Italian for frogmen, because of their swimming frog kick style and because their fins looked like frogs’ feet. Their success against Royal Navy...
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume VI: Submarines, Gunboats, Gun Vessels and Sloops, 1860–1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by...
Hitler's Tank Destroyers
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dedicated German antitank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armored vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an antitank gun on a tracked vehicle to give mobility, while others were more sophisticated...
Hitler's Light Panzers at War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Hitler's Light Panzers at War is a highly illustrated record of the German light tank from its beginnings in the 1930s to the key battles it fought in Poland, France, North Africa, Russia and North Western Europe. The book analyses the development of the light Panzer, which ranged from the Panzer...
GQ Drives
A Stylish Guide to the Greatest Cars Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
Foreword by Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button.
From the magazine synonymous with style comes the ultimate guide to the greatest cars the world has ever seen.
With imagery from the finest motoring photographers, plus British GQ's knowledgeable in-depth reports, the cars in this book represent...
by Eduard Bodenmüller
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Questo libro presenta il diario di guerra giornaliero di Bodenmüller. Egli ci dà un’immagine cruda e veritiera dei duelli tra i Panther e i T-34/85 e gli JS-2 Stalin sovietici, e dei disperati tentativi tedeschi di contenere l’inarrestabile avanzata dell’Armata Rossa in Slesia. Il testo è...
Artigliere d'assalto
Il diario di guerra di un ufficiale della StuG-Brigade 276 sul fronte dell’est, 1944-1945
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Poche sono le memorie dell’artiglieria d’assalto, specialità composta quasi interamente di volontari e responsabile della distruzione di più di 30.000 mezzi corazzati avversari durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Questo diario descrive le azioni del Leutnant Alfred Regeniter, comandante di una...
The First World War
The war to end all wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
A comprehensive overview of World War I, from its causes to the trench-scarred battlefields of the Western Front and final Armistice, this enhanced eBook tells the story of the 'War to end all Wars', uniquely illustrated with atmospheric contemporary film footage. The assassination of Archduke Franz...