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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the Us Navy’s Finest Hour
ISBN: 9780553381481 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.-
With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur's vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny... -This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.-
With these words, Lieutena... |
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97,91 |
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Ironclads and Columbiads: The Coast
ISBN: 9780895870889 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
ISBN: 9780393343410 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative. This dramatic narrative, relying... On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific ... |
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Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies: Naval War College Press Newport Papers, Number 35
ISBN: 9781475027709 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent naval operations by the world's major navies show a clear revival of interest in piracy and piracy suppression. The present work of collaborative scholarship, completed as a project in the Maritime History Department at the U.S. Naval War College, demonstrates that historical insights from a selection of piracy case studies over the past two centuries have potential relevance to current and future thinking about antipiracy operations. This monograph is intended as a contribution to both scholarship and professional naval thinking; it is an academic and comparative examination of twelve...
Recent naval operations by the world's major navies show a clear revival of interest in piracy and piracy suppression. The present work of collaborati...
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The Guided-Missile Frigate Orp Kościuszko
ISBN: 9788366148123 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,10 |
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White Water Red Hot Lead: On Board U.S. Navy Swift Boats in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781636244518 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,10 |
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Last Stand at Mobile
ISBN: 9781893114098 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Admiral David Farragut eyed a potentially lethal minefield guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama, as his attack column of ironclad monitors rushed forward, opening the assault against the Confederate citadels on shore.
One vessel, the U.S.S. Tecumseh, looked every inch an invincible monster. As the sleek, turreted warship drew close to its Rebel enemies, a geyser of water shot up on its starboard side followed by a muffled rumble. The ship heeled over and sank in seconds, carried to its watery doom by its own war-speed and momentum. Crewmen aboard the rest of the Union ships... Admiral David Farragut eyed a potentially lethal minefield guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama, as his attack column of ironclad monitors rus...
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South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
ISBN: 9781591141433 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, and see friendly ships erupt in flames. Russell Crenshaw is one of those few. His riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider's perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Russell Crenshaw was a gunnery officer on the USS Maury. His vivid, balanced, and detailed narrative includes the Battle of Tassafarounga in November 1942 and...
Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, and s...
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Lucky 73: USS Pampanito's Unlikely Rescue of Allied POWs in WWII
ISBN: 9780813034270 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A harrowing true story of capture, torture, shipwreck, and survival "Recounts one of the most heartrending stories of the U.S. Navy's submarine service."--William Thiesen, author of Industrializing American Shipbuilding "We find ordeal and torment of a kind that afflicts the imagination. Unbelievably brave British and Australian POWs are its heroes. U.S. submarine crews are its angels. You and I are its beneficiaries."--Michael Gannon, author of Black May and Operation Drumbeat Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the... A harrowing true story of capture, torture, shipwreck, and survival "Recounts one of the most heartrending stories of the U.S. Navy's submari... |
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Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958
ISBN: 9781682473450 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Operation Chariot: The St Nazaire Raid, 1942
ISBN: 9781612007298 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,30 |
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USS Hornet (CV-8): From the Doolittle Raid and Midway to Santa Cruz
ISBN: 9780764358623 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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P-8A Poseidon: The US Navy’s Newest Maritime Patrol & Antisubmarine Aircraft
ISBN: 9780764359224 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler: The US Navy’s Primary Fighter/Attack Aircraft
ISBN: 9780764359231 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan's Coast Guard
ISBN: 9781682475553 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,30 |
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My Experiences in World War II: Observations and Insights of a Naval Intelligence Officer
ISBN: 9780761873488 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Before They Were the Black Sheep: Marine Fighting Squadron Vmf-214 and the Battle for the Solomon Islands
ISBN: 9780813081328 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Scapa Flow: Home of the Royal Navy 1939-1945
ISBN: 9788366549036 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Prisoners of the Red Desert: The Adventures of the Crew of the Tara! During the First World War
ISBN: 9781846774553 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An incredible adventure from the Great War
This is a unique and riveting book. The steamer Tara and her crew spent the early part of WW1 patrolling the Northern Channel between England and Ireland before a transfer to coastal duties off Egypt and Libya. There she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat operating from a secret base on the Libyan coast. To ensure no intelligence of it's presence leaked to the British, the Germans towed the survivors-including this book's author, the Tara's captain, into captivity at the hands of the Senussi-religious zealots in league with the Ottoman... An incredible adventure from the Great War
This is a unique and riveting book. The steamer Tara and her crew spent the early part of WW1 patrollin... |
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100,02 |
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A Sailor of King George: From Midshipman to Captain-Recollections of War at Sea in the Napoleonic Age 1793-1815
ISBN: 9781846777271 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Adventures of an officer of Nelson's navy
These are the riveting recollections of an officer of the Royal Navy-Nelson's navy-in the first years of the nineteenth century, through the long wars with Britain's ancient enemy Spain and the France of the Revolution, Consulate and of the newly crowned Emperor Napoleon. Hoffman was a seaman who could inspire aspects of the Hornblower character. Hoffman's was a naval career full of incident and action. Joining the navy in 1793 he served in HMS Blonde and HMS Hannibal in action off Martinique and in the Channel. He was engaged in eighteen... The Adventures of an officer of Nelson's navy
These are the riveting recollections of an officer of the Royal Navy-Nelson's navy-in the first year... |
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