wyszukanych pozycji: 41
The Corvette: #5 a Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781493059560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion
ISBN: 9781473845732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination in December 1939. Over the last 60 years the episode has come to be seen as one of the classics of naval warfare. Yet the accepted interpretation of events has perhaps been taken for granted and is ripe for reassessment, and that is one of the aims of Richard Woodman's enthralling new...
The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea figh...
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82,95 zł |
The Bomb Vessel: #4 a Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781493059553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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83,77 zł |
The Merchant Navy
ISBN: 9780747812326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carried half of the world's trade. It reveals how two world wars nearly destroyed our merchant shipping, but convoys battled on to save Britain from starving to death. We see what life was like at sea for merchant seamen and get a first-hand glimpse of them at work.
This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carri...
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44,22 zł |
Ebb Tide: #14 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781574091045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It is 1843 and Captain Nathaniel Sir Drinkwater embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for an inspection of lighthouses on the west coast of England. Bowed with age and honors, the old sea officer has been drawn from retirement on half-pay to fulfill his public duty. The following day, tragedy strikes, and Drinkwater is confronted with his past life: his sins and follies, his triumphs and his disasters. Drawing on a true incident, Richard Woodman deftly concludes the career of his sea hero. Drinkwater s complex character is revealed in its entirety. Far from being the reminiscences of an old...
It is 1843 and Captain Nathaniel Sir Drinkwater embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for an inspection of lighthouses on the west coast of England. Bo...
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66,09 zł |
Wager
ISBN: 9781574090802 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Wrenched by tragedy from a peaceful and respectable middle-class home in Victorian London, Hannah Kemball finds herself accompanying her father, Captain "Cracker Jack" Kemball, aboard the tea-clipper Erl King on a voyage to China. It is 1869. In shanghai and Foochow, the crack British tea-clippers are loading the season's tea, preparing for the annual race to bring their valuable cargoes and the fortunes of their swaggering crews halfway around the world to the London market. Unfortunately for Hannah, only one thing matters t the iron-willed captains about to pit their skills against the...
Wrenched by tragedy from a peaceful and respectable middle-class home in Victorian London, Hannah Kemball finds herself accompanying her father, Capta...
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66,09 zł |
The Shadow of the Eagle: A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781493068951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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88,19 zł |
Arctic Convoys 1941-1945
ISBN: 9781844156115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is now well known, but few are aware of the courage, determination and sacrifice of Allied merchant ships, which withstood unremitting U-boat attacks and aerial bombardment to maintain the lifeline to Russia. In the storms, fog and numbing cold of the Arctic, where the sinking of a 10,000 ton freighter was equal to a land battle in terms of destruction, the losses sustained were huge. Told...
During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The ...
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129,35 zł |
The Corvette
ISBN: 9781574091007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold as Drinkwater escorts a whaling fleet to Greenland and meets disaster, treachery and death.
The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold as Drinkwater escorts a whaling fleet to Gre...
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66,09 zł |
A River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies
ISBN: 9781493075164 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation’. A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied intelligence to be being used by the Indonesians to build up supplies before launching a major attack on Sarawak. Charged with this mission, Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary discovery amid the dense mangrove swamps bordering a river in Borneo. Not only does this discovery enable Kirton to fulfill his mission but it is quite coincidentally intensely personal and...
It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation’. A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate ...
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88,19 zł |
1805: #6 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781493060917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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88,19 zł |
Beyond Madagascar: A Bold & Consequential Voyage
ISBN: 9781705435076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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60,29 zł |
The Shadow of the Eagle: #13 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781574091038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an Allied squadron commanded by the Duke of Clarence. The Great War is at en end and Europe prepares to celebrate the return of legitimate monarchy. But the victorious Allies are increasingly suspicious of one another. Alexander I, the capricious Tsar of Russia, believes he is the savior of the world, while Great Britain whose sea-power has guaranteed victory at sea and contributed to the military success of Russia, Austria and Prussia, remains at...
It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an...
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66,09 zł |
A Private Revenge: #9 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781574090789 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings the frigate Patrician to the Pearl River on the China coast and finds himself caught up in bizarre events.
Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings the frigate Patrician to the Pearl River on the China coast and finds himself caught up in bizarre events.
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66,09 zł |
Beneath the Aurora
ISBN: 9781493068944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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88,19 zł |
A Brig of War: #3 a Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
ISBN: 9781493057214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,93 zł |
A Brig of War
ISBN: 9781574091250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig Hellebore. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral Nelson, pursuing the French fleet to Egypt, sends Hellebore to the Red Sea with an urgent warning to the British squadron there. However, Nelson s apprehensions over French ambitions in the East are more than justified. Edouard Santhonax, Drinkwater s old enemy, is already preparing for a French descent on India. The hunt for this elusive Frenchman and his frigate is combined with British naval operations on the flank of Napoleon s Egyptian...
In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig Hellebore. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral N...
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66,09 zł |
The Bomb Vessel
ISBN: 9781574090994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel. Drinkwater s ambition is to turn it back into a fighting ship, but his plans are thwarted. At the same time, Drinkwater s brother appeals for help in his desperate attempt to escape the gallows. As Sir Hyde Parker s fleet approaches the Danish coast, the Virago joins the battle. Amid gales and ice, Drinkwater strives to save his ship and his brother. It is 1801 and napoleon is reaching supreme power in France and has allied himself with Tsar Paul of Russia. Against this...
A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel. Drinkwater s ambition is ...
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66,09 zł |
Ebb Tide
ISBN: 9781493071791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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88,19 zł |
Sword of State: The Forging
ISBN: 9781794611481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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41,73 zł |