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Author : Richard McMunn
Publisher : How2Become Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907558713
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Royal Marines Officer Workbook written by Richard McMunn and published by How2Become Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038894
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The World War II Collection written by Walter Lord and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to the beach at Dunkirk. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy. The Miracle of Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the fate of Britain—and the World—hung in the balance. On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. But because their code breakers knew what was coming, the American navy was able to prepare an ambush of its own. In Incredible Victory, Walter Lord recounts two days of savage battle, during which a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War II. December 7, 1941, began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on the Pacific fleet, soldiers, generals, and civilians alike felt shock, then fear, and then rage. From the chaos, a thousand personal stories of courage emerged. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, letters, and diaries, Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy recounts the many tales of heroism and tragedy of those who experienced the attack firsthand. These three acclaimed war chronicles showcase Walter Lord at the top of his game as a narrative nonfiction master.
Author : Roger McCoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199974160
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book On the Edge written by Roger McCoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our access to Google Maps, Global Positioning Systems, and Atlases that cover all regions and terrains and tell us precisely how to get from one place to another, we tend to forget there was ever a time when the world was unknown and uncharted--a mystery waiting to be solved. In On the Edge, Roger McCoy tells the captivating--and often harrowing--story of the 400 year effort to map North America's Coasts. Much of the book is based on the narratives of mariners who sought a passage through the continent to Asia and produced maps as a byproduct of their journeys. These courageous explorers had to rely on the most rudimentary mapping tools and to contend with unimaginably harsh conditions: ship-crushing ice floes; the threat of frostbite, scurvy, and starvation; gold fever and mutiny; ice that could lock them in for months on end; and, inevitably, the failure to find the elusive Northwest passage. Telling the story from the explorers' perspective, McCoy allows readers to see how maps of their voyages were made and why they were so full of errors, as well as how they gradually acquired greater accuracy, especially after the longitude problem was solved. On the Edge tracks the dramatic voyages of John Cabot, John Davis, Captain Cook, Henry Hudson, Martin Frobisher, John Franklin (who nearly starved to death and become known in England as "the man who ate his boots"), and others, concluding with Robert Peary, Otto Sverdrup, and Vihjalmur Steffanson in the early twentieth century. Drawing upon diaries, journals, and other primary sources--and including a set of maps charting the progress of exploration over time--On the Edge shows exactly how we came to know the shape of our continent.
Author : T. H. Baughman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261631
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Before the Heroes Came written by T. H. Baughman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. ø Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains limited their forays inland. Borchgrevink's survival was proof that with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable, and that with a better geographic position, the enormous unknown of the continent could be investigated. ø Borchgrevink galvanized the British geographical authorities who had come to consider polar exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham of the Royal Geographic Society, the British keenly felt his blow to their national pride delivered by an explorer they regarded as an arrogant upstart. The RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. ø This work is anøaccount of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica, concentrating on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, which dominate the story of the "Heroic Era" of Antarctic exploration, from 1901 to 1922.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Hansard's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 644 pages
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Total Pages : 1178 pages
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Author : Lewis Augustus Clutterbuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
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Download or read book The Bond of Sacrifice written by Lewis Augustus Clutterbuck and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Cable
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521225168
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Royal Navy and the Siege of Bilbao written by James Cable and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979-11-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas C. Hansard
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Thomas C. Hansard and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 1860 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1436 pages
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Download or read book Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hepper
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399031058
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail written by David Hepper and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant new reference book provides a complete list of the ships of the Royal Navy which were lost at sea in the age of sail. Arranged in chronological order, it includes outline details of each vessel lost and the circumstances of her loss. 1649 is the start date, which coincides with the execution of Charles I and that time when the Royal Navy entered a new phase as an instrument of state: the launch of the steam-powered and iron-hulled Warrior in 1860 effectively marks the end of the great era of the wooden-hulled sailing warship. Life at sea in the age of sail was a hazardous pursuit, and there were many reasons for a ship being lost. A correspondent to the Nautical Magazine in 1841 detailed some fifty reasons and causes, from being short of crew, abandonment without sufficient cause, the poor condition of a ship, incorrectness of charts, poor dead-reckoning as well as less obvious reasons such as the presence of captains wives and other women. Navigational error, particularly before the chronometer allowed for the accurate calculation of longitude, was a common reason, while poor weather in the form of fog or gales was an obvious peril. So many ships suffered the melancholy fate of lonely disappearance overwhelmed by storm and sea, and witnessed by none. Collisions and fire feature regularly as does, of course, loss to the enemy. Each entry includes details of the ship, its name and type, tonnage and dimensions, origin and place of build, the circumstances of the loss, the date and a list of the main references used. All this material is presented here in a single and highly accessible volume, and represents a major milestone both in naval research and publishing; it offers too a fund of fascinating and compelling stories of maritime misadventure. Praise for the author's previous work: This volume is an amazing encyclopaedic, catalogue of British warships lost between 1920 and 1982 It is strongly recommended to historians, authors, researchers and all those with an interest in the history of the Royal Navy and the Second World War. -Scuttlebut Magazine
Author : Thomas Brassey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385482550
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The British Navy. Its Strength, Resources, and Administration written by Thomas Brassey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851099573
Total Pages : 1109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 [3 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 1109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the most comprehensive reference work on the War of 1812 yet published, offering a multidisciplinary treatment of course, causes, effects, and specific details of the War that provides both quick reference and in-depth analysis for readers from the high school level to scholars in the field. The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History dedicates 872 entries—totaling some 600,000 words—to this important American war. It is the most comprehensive and significant reference work available on the subject. Its entries spotlight the key battles, standout individuals, essential weapons, and social, political, and economic developments, and examine the wider, concurrent European developments which directly affected this conflict in North America. A volume of primary documents provides more avenues for research. This three-volume work offers comprehensive, in-depth information in a format that lends itself to quick and easy use, making it ideal for high school, college, and university-level learners as well as general learning annexes and military libraries. Scholars of the period and students of American military history will find it essential reading.
Author : A. T. Mahan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3845711949
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Naval Officers written by A. T. Mahan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. T. Mahan (1840-1914), der wohl bekannteste amerikanische Stratege der Marine des 19. Jahrhunderts, bietet mit diesem Buch aus dem Jahre 1902 eine Auflistung und Darstellung einiger bedeutender Marineoffiziere, die dem Autor besonders wichtig erschienen. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe.
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Total Pages : 648 pages
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