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With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the first tall ships that broke the horizon off an unknown southern continent to the bustling steam-powered...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the first naval shots fired in the Pacific during the Great War to the ferocious sea battles of World War II, Of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the cold, crushing depths of the Pacific Ocean, a silent war was fought with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1796, a battered convict transport ship named the Marquis Cornwallis set sail from Ireland, its hold crammed...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn one of the most viscerally honest accounts of maritime life ever committed to paper, Two Years Before the Mast chronicles Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s harrowing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the summer of 1865, the Confederate commerce raider CSS...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the quarterdeck to the engine room, One of Our Warships immerses the reader in the tightly-knit world of a Royal Navy vessel, chronicling...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBrett Hilder's Navigator in the South Seas is a gripping first-hand account of a seasoned mariner's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1782, one of Britain's mightiest warships heeled without warning and sank at anchor in Portsmouth Harbour — taking with her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in British history command the sea of myth and reverence that surrounds Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Admiral's Wife opens a rare and intimate window into the life of Mrs Phillip Parker King, the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the first fleet of ironclads to the modern nuclear age, The Royal Australian Navy: Historic Naval Events Year by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the sparkling waters of Corio Bay in Victoria, Australia, The Wind is Free: A History of The Royal Geelong Yacht Club chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before satellites and GPS, brave navigators charted the world's vast, unforgiving oceans armed with nothing but ingenuity, courage, and crude instruments — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the earliest experiments with floatplanes and flying boats to the jet-powered carrier operations of the Cold War era, Wings Over the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched shores of Sydney Harbour to the treacherous waters of the Coral Sea and beyond, The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent waters of the Dardanelles Campaign, one man's story cuts through the fog of war with haunting clarity — The Long Silence...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersLong before the age of railways and roads, Australia's mighty...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the age of sail, the Southern Ocean roared with the white canvas of magnificent tall ships threading their way through the...

Between the entry of the US and the end of the Second World War in Europe, the three huge Cunard liners Aquitania, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth carried a million...

For more than half a century, an air of innuendo, accusation and mystery has surrounded the Battle of Savo Island, fought off the southern Solomon Islands during the early morning...

This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...

The author concentrates on four key conflicts, Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He aims to take readers into the heart of the fighting and also to...

It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...

The book titled Battle of the Bismarck Sea by the author Lex McAuley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Times History Book of the Year 2022A TLS Book of the Year 2022'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe ocean has always called to those willing to answer, and Voices from the Sea gathers the literary responses of those who answered most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew accounts of life at sea have ever matched the raw immediacy and narrative power of Two Years Before...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dark, desperate hours of February 1942, the Sunda Strait became the grave of some of the most gallant...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the summer of 1588, the fate of Protestant Europe hung by a...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen Ernest Shackleton's name is invoked, history remembers the man at the centre of the storm — but Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stretches of sea have claimed as many ships — and as many lives — as the treacherous Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of wartime voyage narratives, Reported Safe Arrival: The Journal of a Voyage to Port X chronicles a gripping seafaring journey...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the guns of August 1914 began...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJoseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' stands as one of the most viscerally powerful sea...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the beaches of Dunkirk became a crucible of desperation in the summer of 1940, it was not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the summer of 1942, one of the most catastrophic naval disasters of the Second World War unfolded...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew memoirs capture the intersection of sky and sea with such electrifying clarity as The Flying Sailor, the remarkable autobiography...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the darkest days of World War II, the waters surrounding Australia became a battleground as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched decks of aircraft carriers to the freezing Arctic convoys, Pictorial History of the Fleet Air Arm chronicles the dramatic story of...