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While westward land expansion captured the attention of America's leaders, Mahan used history to prove that he who controls the seas controls the globe. In this 1913 classic of military historical analysis, dissecting battles at Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, he argues that the Revolutionary War was really won on the water.
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Compiled by the author of Janes Air Forces of the World, this book is a must for naval experts and enthusiasts. In one volume the reader will find the composition and details of all naval elements of a staggering 137 nations armed forces including paramilitary organizations as the US Coast Guard Service. The book starts with an introduction based on the situation today and the response of the leading maritime powers. This is an interesting period...
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Now in its seventh year, this annual has established an international reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of importance to navies, such as aviation and electronics, and calls on...
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There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London, but vessels carrying the name have featured for better or worse in some of the most controversial episodes of British naval history.
For example, the wooden wall battleship HMS London of the late 18th Century could be called the ship that lost America while the heavy cruiser of WW2 was command vessel for the escort force that failed to safeguard the controversial convoy PQ17. In HMS...
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The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the 'as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. They were very large — more than 12 feet long for capital ships — highly detailed, annotated and labeled, and drawn with exquisite skill in multicolored inks and washes. Intended...
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Launched in 2009, this annual has rapidly established a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of importance to navies, such as aviation and electronics,...
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Descubra la Edad Media a través de la guerra en el mar: las invasiones bárbaras, musulmanas y normandas (Vikingos), las cruzadas, las primeras potencias navales (Venecia, Génova y Aragón) hasta la campaña naval otomana durante la conquista de Constantinopla. 27 grandes batallas en un momento de trascendental cambio histórico: de la pax romana a la época feudal.
Acérquese a las batallas navales más importantes de la Edad Media, las invasiones...
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Soldiers and journalists alike wasted no time in telling the story of the campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian invasion in April, 1982. Almost without exception, however, they are concerned largely on the role of the Army, for it was the part they played which particularly fired the public imagination, and it may be said that the role of the Royal and Merchant Navies, the abiding images of which are for many the pictures...
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Desde Sumeria y Babilonia hasta Grecia y Roma: 27 grandes batallas navales, los navíos y sus tácticas: Cumas, Salamina, Actium, Micala, Eurimedón, Arginusas, Egos Pótamos. Descubra las epopeyas marinas protagonizadas por Octavio Augusto, Marco Antonio, Cleopatra, Ramsés III, Agripa o la reina Artemisia de Halicarnaso.
Acérquese a las batallas navales más importantes de la Antigüedad, desde las protagonizadas por remotas civilizaciones como...
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La auténtica historia de los más trágicos mitos de la historia naval de los últimos cien años.
Titanic, Príncipe de Asturias, Lusitania, Andrea Doria,… Colosales catástrofes, secretos ocultados por los gobiernos, los más estremecedores desastres navales de los últimos cien años.
Asómbrese con las grandes tragedias del mar del último siglo, siniestros, accidentes o pérdidas de grandes buques mercantes, militares y de pasajeros que provocaron...
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Get the Summary of Stephen Moore's Strike of the Sailfish in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Strike of the Sailfish" by Stephen Moore recounts the gripping World War II experiences of the USS Sculpin and USS Sailfish submarines. On June 9, 1943, the Sculpin, under Lt. Cmdr. Lucius Chappell, received intelligence about Japanese carriers Unyo and Chuyo. Despite faulty torpedoes, Chappell engaged but failed to hit...
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The life of Admiral Mahan spanned the age of sail, the Civil War, the War in the Pacific, and the Spanish-American War, the rise of steam power, and the international political dramas that would explode into the First World War. He tells his story in this 1907 memoir.
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Between Drake's Revenge and the Polaris submarine, the most recent Revenge, are the glory years of the Royal Navy. Revenge was at the Armada, the Azores, Trafalgar and Jutland and with weapons capable of terrible destruction.
The first Revenge commanded by Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Francis Drake, symbolised the boldness and flair of that period. Faster and more manoeuvrable than the massive Spanish galleons.
The mighty 25,000 ton battleship with...
94) Man-of-War Life
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Like many a restless teenager before him, Charles Nordhoff craved excitement and in 1844, when barely 14, he managed to talk his way into the US Navy. A bookish lad who had been apprenticed to a printer, Nordhoff was better educated than most of his fellow seamen, and was well equipped to describe what became a three-year round-the-world adventure. He was lucky in his ship, USS Columbus, a large 74-gun ship of the line that had been chosen to undertake...
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Las estrategias de la cruel y despiadada guerra submarina en el atlántico norte, que fue clave para la victoria final en las dos guerras mundiales.
La guerra submarina es la gran desconocida en todos los libros de historia. Conocemos las fechas y las batallas terrestres y aéreas, pero ¿cómo participan los submarinos en estos conflictos? A lo largo de este libro conoceremos las distintas estrategias de este tipo de batallas a través de la Batalla...
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Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available which could bring heavy artillery to bear on enemy coasts with pin point accuracy and on at least one occasion a force of only three monitors had a profound effect...
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Cinco siglos de batallas navales trascendentales por la hegemonía del Mare Nostrum: desde Solimán contra el Imperio Español o Napoleón contra Inglaterra hasta las dos Guerras Mundiales. El fascinante mundo de la Armée Royale, la Mediterranean Fleet, la Regia Marina o la KuK Marine de la mano de grandes nombres como Barbarroja, Juan de Austria, Andrea Doria o Horacio Nelson.
Breve historia de las batallas navales en el Mediterráneo es el tercer...
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On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters for four days, and why only a fraction of the 800 men who safely abandoned the ship survived the ordeal. This is the true story of the massive thirty-year...
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The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series of six volumes written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each contains an account of the development of a particular class,...
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