The Naval Brigade - Part 5
The Brigade's experience of soldiering was about to become shockingly comprehensive. The Second Bombardment began on 9th April and lasted until the 17th. The Army Siege Train had not received its promised reinforcements, and the Navy was asked to ... [... more]
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Valerian Albanov
Valerian Albanov was born in 1881 in Voronezh, Russia, and graduated in 1904 from the Naval College of St. Petersburg. Despite his harrowing voyage aboard the Saint Anna, he continued going to sea until his death in 1919. Jon Krakauer is the ... [... more]
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Andrew Cormack
The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed strength of just over 2,000 all ranks; the Royal Naval Air Service had some 50 seaplanes. By the ... [... more]
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Hans Von Luck
Hans von Luck was born in 1911 in Flensburg, Germany, the son of a naval officer. Although he would have preferred to study law, he followed the path of duty and in 1929 entered the Reichswehr as a cadet officer. In 1939 his motorized unit was ... [... more]
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Yachting's Golden Age
Ed Holm has been a photojournalist, a magazine and book editor, an art director, and an author and historian. He is a former officer in the U.S. Navy and a lieutenant commander (retired) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He lives in Manheim, ... [... more]
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Death in the Jungle
With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous ... [... more]
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Karen Traviss
Karen Traviss is a former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist. She has worked in public relations for the police and local government, and has served in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. The New York ... [... more]
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Naval Battles of the First World War
 A classic history from the Great War.: Geoffrey Bennett was a distinguished naval historian who also served for 35 years in the Royal Navy. As I have mentioned before, he brings an understanding of naval history and naval issues to his work which is [... more]
CDN$15.58
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Slaughter at Sea: The Story of Japan's Naval War Crimes
A story which needed to be told.: It is often said that the sheer barbarity of the Japanese regime, in terms of how they treated military and civilian prisoners, during WW2, has remained unsurpassed to this day. The ways in which even a private soldier [... more]
CDN$41.62
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval ...
"The Fog of War" in the South Pacific (1941-1945): As I read Evan Thomas' brilliant account of naval warfare in the South Pacific during World War II (1941-1945) and especially his analysis of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, I was again [... more]
CDN$17.50
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Lords of the lake: The naval war on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814
Fortune Favors the Brave!: This valuable tome tells the interesting story of the arms race of the War of 1812. Gallant naval feats are few here, and there are mismanaged operations and no showdown fights. There is, though, a very interesting story to [... more]
CDN$44.35
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Classic History Rise And Fall Of British Naval Mastery
Single Causitive Theory in Action: Paul Kennedy glosses over British naval ascendancy from pre-1600 to 1976. This is essentially an analysis in political economy, not military history. As usual, Kennedy maintains that the British fleet ruled the waves [... more]
CDN$16.02
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