Naval category: 2015 books
by William Bligh
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Cast out from their ship by Fletcher Christian and his rebel band, William Bligh and eighteen seamen were forced to journey thousands of miles to the nearest port in a small open boat, with inadequate supplies and without a compass or charts. This time-honored classic, written in 1790, is Bligh's...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Aces Against Japan IIThe American Aces SpeakEric HammelCombat historian Eric Hammel comes through with an engrossing new collection of first-person accounts by American World War II fighter aces.Coupled with a clear overview of America's air war against Japan, Hammel's detailed interviews bring forth...
Inside Noah's Ark
Why it Worked
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The new Ark Encounter represents more than just a giant wooden ship — it reveals important details on how the systems within the Ark could have worked! Refuting the most common arguments against the viability of the Ark, we learn how ancient knowledge of bamboo pipes, cisterns, gears, ropes and...
Royal Air Force Coastal Command
A short history of the maritime air force which protected the United Kingdom’s shipping during WW I and WW II
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Royal Air Force Coastal Command was the organisation charged with keeping the sea lanes clear around the coasts of Britain for the best part of half a century, from immediately after the First World War until the 1960s. In the decades after the Second World War, John Campbell served as a Coastal Command...
Tirpitz
The First Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album belonged to a member of the crew of famous German Battleship Tirpitz. It is a little known fact that before the start of World War Two the ship went on a shakedown voyage into the Atlantic, traveling north into Arctic waters and south into...
by Christopher Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
SEAL Team Six gets another mission from General Richards. This time they had to annihilate a terrorist in Brazil. They infiltrated there and with the help of the other SEAL Teams managed to kill the terrorist at the national television building. On top of that building was another terrorist that...
Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental...
In the Shadow of Nelson
The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer.
The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments...
Corsaire de Napoléon. Les campagnes de l'amiral Bouvet
Mémoires augmentées
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Issu d'une longue lignée de corsaires, Pierre François Etienne Bouvet de Maisonneuve (1775-1860) est l'un des seuls marins de l'Empire à tenir tête à la puissance navale anglaise après 1805. Ses aventures dans l'océan Indien sont un éclair d'espoir pour une marine napoléonienne marquée au fer rouge par le désastre de Trafalgar.
by Ir.Budiman Djoko Said, MM, Gatot Soedarto
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Di dalam buku ini disampaikan topik-topik mengangkut Geopolitik dan Hubungan Internasional, serta beberapa topik terkait dengan Kepentingan Nasional dan Tujuan Nasional dalam hubungannya dengan perkembangan politik, ekonomi, dan militer dewasa ini.
Geopolitik diaplikasikan...
Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia
Political and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia.
The maritime disputes in East Asia have multiplied over the past few years, in parallel with the economic growth of the countries in the region,...
by B. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Blackbeard was one of the most feared and notorious of the historical pirates. His ledged still resonates some three hundred years after his bloody and courageous end. Here is his fantastic story of piracy, loyalty, and betrayal.
A Book of Discovery
"The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole"
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018
A BOOK OF DISCOVERY
"The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole"
A LITTLE OLD WORLD
No story is complete unless it begins at the very beginning. But where is the beginning? Where is the dawn of geographyâ€"the knowledge...
by Abby Jane Morrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
During the nineteenth century it became increasingly common for merchant service masters to take their wives to sea, particularly in the whaling industry, where voyages of 2-3 years were not uncommon. Reflecting the sailor’s traditional dislike of women on board – seen as unlucky by the superstitious...