Titanic: First Accounts

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Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles firsthand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W.

ISBN: 9780143106623

Binding: Paperback Book

$19.95

Troubled Water

Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk

by Gregory A. Freeman

In 1972, the U.S. was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to the gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war rioted - or, as this book suggests, mutinied.

ISBN: 9780230103399

Binding: Paperback Book

$22.95

Atlantic

A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester

In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. At the core of the book is the story ...

ISBN: 9780007364596

Binding: Paperback Book

$35.00

The Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic

The Ocean's Greatest Disaster: A Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the Greatest Floating Palace Ever Built Carrying Down to Watery Graves More Than 1,500 Souls

by Marshall Everett

First published in 1912, within months of the sinking of the Titanic, this historic publication is a somber yet sensationalistic look at the contemporary accounts of the time. As set forth in the original jacket copy, this graphic and thrilling ...

ISBN: 9780062067401

Binding: Hardback Book

$32.99

Spanish Gold

Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean

by David Cordingly

Today most of us know what we know about pirates from classics like Treasure Island and the films starring Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. But who were the real pirates of the Caribbean and where did they come from? And how were they tamed?

ISBN: 9781408822166

Binding: Paperback Book

$19.99

The Seaplane Years

A History of the Marine & Armament Experimental Establishment, 1920-1924, and the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, 1924-1956

by Tim Mason

Beginning with the establishment of the experimental flying boat station at Felixstowe, the author explains the development of aircraft testing in two different environments and examines in detail those maritime aircraft which did much to ...

ISBN: 9781902109138

Binding: Hardback Book

$79.95

Operation Albion

The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands

by Michael B. Barrett

In October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a half-dozen zeppelins, and 80 aircraft, attacked the Baltic islands of Dago, Osel, and Moon at the head of the ...

ISBN: 9780253349699

Binding: Hardback Book

$41.95

Captain Cook

Master of the Seas

by Frank McLynn

The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy.

ISBN: 9780300184310

Binding: Paperback Book

$27.95

Clyde Built

The Blockade Runners of the American Civil War

by Eric J. Graham

The Blockade of the US's Southern ports during the American Civil War is well known and thoroughly documented, the conflict defined as a massive game of chess between two steely opponents - the aggressive Navy of the Federation and the determined ...

ISBN: 9781841584249

Binding: Hardback Book

$52.95

Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815

War, the British Navy and the Contractor State

by Roger Knight & Martin Wilcox

Provisioning the fleet, and the army overseas, during the French Wars of 1793-1815 was a major undertaking. This book explains how the Victualling Board in London handled this enormous task, focusing in particular on contractors - that is the ...

ISBN: 9781843835646

Binding: Hardback Book

$162.95

Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Oceans in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831

by Abby Jane Morrell

Abby Jane Morrell (b. 1809) was the wife of ship captain and explorer Benjamin Morrell (1795-1839). During the nineteenth century it became more common for women to join their husbands on voyages, and Abby insisted on accompanying her husband on ...

ISBN: 9781108049771

Binding: Paperback Book

$44.95

Braynard's Story

Titanic Postcards

by Frank O. Braynard

Historic photos and illustrations capture the world's most famous ocean liner. Views of ship in dry dock and on trial runs, its captain and chief officers, the gigantic engine and rudder, staterooms, grim-faced survivors aboard the rescue ship ...

ISBN: 9780486256115

Binding: Printed Material

$9.95

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$224.95

By Sea and by River

Naval History of the Civil War

by Bern Anderson

Less bloody and less known than the land campaigns of the Civil War, the naval battlesand especially the naval blockade of the Southwere crucial factors in the outcome of the war. The spectacular battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack ...

ISBN: 9780306803673

Binding: Paperback Book

$25.95

Titanic: Icon of an Age

Illustrated Chronicle from Design to Disaster

by Michael McCaughan

Titanic is the most famous ship in history and the extraordinary story of her construction and loss continues to capture the human imagination. Even before she sailed in 1912 Titanic was making headlines as the world's largest ship, symbolising ...

ISBN: 9780856408656

Binding: Hardback Book

$60.95

Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power

by Thomas M. Kane

This challenging new book argues that the People's Republic of China is pursuing a long-term strategy to extend its national power by sea.

ISBN: 9780714652825

Binding: Hardback Book

$342.95

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$29.95