Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780814798423 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. View the Table of Contents. -An exceptionally well written, well documented, fast-moving account.---Washington Times -This is a book written on multiple levels, and well worth reading.---M.S. Naval Institute Proceedings -This book is a welcome addition to the history of naval aviation and fills a much-needed void by detailing the later years of the Vietnam naval air campaign.---Sea Power -Makes for lively, vivid, and informative reading. I would include it...on my list of the top ten books on the air war... View the Table of Contents. -An exceptionally well written, well documented, fast-moving account.---W... |
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Pirates and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780859894814 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or outside the law. In the 18th and 19th centuries such assaults reached new heights as the development of trans-oceanic empires led to an increase in the wealth and extent of sea-borne trade, and with it the potential for prize-taking.
Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or outside the law. In the 18th and 19th centuries ...
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584,07 zł |
Battleship Bismarck
ISBN: 9780887402210 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The short history of this great battleship is presented in this volume. Many never before published photographs chart its most infamous history.
The short history of this great battleship is presented in this volume. Many never before published photographs chart its most infamous history.
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162,10 zł |
Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine
ISBN: 9780891415725 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The USS Wahoo's performance in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the empire is legendary.
The USS Wahoo's performance in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the empire is legendary.
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90,18 zł |
Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal
ISBN: 9780898755657 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,24 zł |
Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy
ISBN: 9781403939067 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character, whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary status. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero and already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye. He returned to war when called back in May and spent a further two years at sea before dying at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Today, two centuries after his death, the 'immortal memory' of Nelson endures. In this book, leading historians provide a radical reappraisal of his life and times.
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character, whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary status. By 1803 ...
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214,47 zł |
Cordon of Steel: The US Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9781410221230 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is a dramatic example of how the U.S. Navy's multipurpose ships and aircraft, flexible task organization, and great mobility enabled President Kennedy to protect national interests in one of the most serious confrontations of the Cold War. Curtis A. Utz is currently a historian in the Naval Historical Center's Contemporary History Branch.
This study is a dramatic example of how the U.S. Navy's multipurpose ships and aircraft, flexible task organization, and great mobility enabled Presid...
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120,00 zł |
The Luck of l'Il Olgo
ISBN: 9781414062402 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,10 zł |
Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781557501967 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The men of the U.S. Navy's brown-water force played a vital but often overlooked role in the Vietnam War. Known for their black berets and limitless courage, they maneuvered their aging, makeshift craft along shallow coastal waters and twisting inland waterways to search out the enemy. In this moving tribute to their contributions and sacrifices, Tom Cutler records their dramatic story as only a participant could. His own Vietnam experience enables him to add a striking human dimension to the account. The terror of firefights along the jungle-lined rivers, the rigors of camp life, and the...
The men of the U.S. Navy's brown-water force played a vital but often overlooked role in the Vietnam War. Known for their black berets and limitless c...
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170,43 zł |
The Mother of All Hooks: Story of the U.S.Navy's Tailhooks Scandal
ISBN: 9781560002932 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mother of All Hooks is a richly detailed description of the United States government's attempts to punish naval officers for sexual misconduct committed at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Journalist William H. McMichael describes the institutionalized mind-set that led to that misconduct and, in the face of an oppressive, politically charged investigation, to a large-scale failure to cooperate with government agents. This failure led to further investigative and prosecutorial excesses that ultimately doomed the effort to bring the guilty to... The Mother of All Hooks is a richly detailed description of the United States government's attempts to punish naval officers for sexual mi... |
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658,75 zł |
Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between Straight and Gay in the U.S. Navy
ISBN: 9781560248507 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of gays in the military and the sexual realities of military life. This title features conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life.
Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of gays in the military and the sexual rea...
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658,75 zł |
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
ISBN: 9781574885545 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ted W. Lawson's classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. -One of the worst feelings about that time, - Ted W. Lawson writes, -was that there was no tangible enemy. It was like being slugged with a single punch in a dark room, and having no way of knowing where to slug back.- He added, -And, too, there was a helpless, filled-up, want-to-do-something feeling that the Japanese] weren't coming--that we'd have to go all the way over there to punch back and get even.- Lawson gives a vivid eyewitness...
Ted W. Lawson's classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on J...
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81,03 zł |
Cushing: Civil War SEAL
ISBN: 9781574886962 / Angielski / Miękka / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing parallels between the navy's conduct of special operations during the Civil War and today, this text recounts the death-defying combat record of the Union Navy's most colourful officer - William Barker Cushing.
Drawing parallels between the navy's conduct of special operations during the Civil War and today, this text recounts the death-defying combat record ...
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68,50 zł |
Wildcats Over Casablanca: U.S. Navy Fighters in Operation Torch
ISBN: 9781574887228 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.S. Navy fighter squadron during the invasion of French North Africa in World War II. Lieutenants Wordell and Seiler, with the help of journalist Keith Ayling, vividly recount the exploits of their fellow aviators, who flew the sturdy Grumman F4F -Wildcat- from the deck of the USS Ranger (censors would not allow the authors to use the ship's name in the original edition), as well as the carrier's bomber and scouting squadrons. They cover not only the aerial operations but also the myriad...
This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.S. Navy fighter squadron during the invasion of Frenc...
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94,27 zł |
War in the Boats: My WWII Submarine Battles
ISBN: 9781574887341 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Submarine duty in World War II took the lives of more than 20 percent of U.S. submariners. As a young ensign, William J. Ruhe kept a journal on eight action-filled patrols in the South Pacific. His colorful memoir has earned a place with the best naval fiction, among such books as Run Silent, Run Deep and The Hunt for Red October.
Submarine duty in World War II took the lives of more than 20 percent of U.S. submariners. As a young ensign, William J. Ruhe kept a journal on eight ...
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85,68 zł |
The Devil Himself: The Munity of 1800
ISBN: 9781590130353 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accurate, fair, thorough, and lively, this penetrating account of a mutiny and its aftermath is compiled from contemporary British documents and the dusty French naval archives. The men, the ship, and the tragic chain of events following a capture by the press-gang are described and this extraordinary 1800 mutiny is brought to life. It tells how the British crew of the "Danae"a captured French corvettemutinied, sailed the ship back to France, turned it over to Napoleon, and received a cash reward. Those who survived, hanged, and died disgraced in a far-off colonial posting are chronicled....
Accurate, fair, thorough, and lively, this penetrating account of a mutiny and its aftermath is compiled from contemporary British documents and the d...
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81,39 zł |
Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Story
ISBN: 9781591141242 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world. After countless partisan and spy missions, in 1942 he emerged from the jungle and integrated his Melanesian commando force into the heart of the 1st Marine Division's operations, earning the unfettered admiration of such legendary Marine officers as Vandegrift, Thomas, Twining,...
This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive...
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128,63 zł |
Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah
ISBN: 9781591144137 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the success of his first book about a U.S. Navy flight crew's desperate battle to survive a 1978 ditching in the icy north Pacific, Andrew Jampoler has turned to an equally exciting Navy adventure set in the desert of Ottoman Syria more than one hundred fifty years ago. Ordered to fix the exact elevation of the Dead Sea and to collect scientific specimens, the expedition was the Navy's first and last to the storied salt lake of the Old Testament. The expedition's leader, Lt. William Lynch, was at once a coolly scientific and a devoutly religious man who hoped to find the ruins of... Following the success of his first book about a U.S. Navy flight crew's desperate battle to survive a 1978 ditching in the icy north Pacific, Andre... |
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186,43 zł |
The First Team : Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway
ISBN: 9781591144717 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare. From the earliest operations in the Pacific through the decisive Battle of Midway, it offers a narrative account of how ace fighter pilots like Jimmy Thach and Butch O'Hare and their skilled VF squadron mates--called the -first team---amassed a remarkable combat record in the face of desperate odds. Tapping both American and Japanese sources, historian John B. Lundstrom reconstructs every significant action and...
Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational his...
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207,76 zł |
Bull Halsey
ISBN: 9781591146919 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applauded by the public and revered by the men who served under him, Adm. William F. Halsey was one of the leading American personalities of World War II. His reputation as a no-holds-barred fighter and his tough-guy expression earned him the nickname -Bull, - yet he was also known for showing genuine compassion toward his men and inspiring them to great feats in the Pacific. Originally disclaiming the praise heaped on him, Halsey eventually came to believe in the swashbuckling legend that surrounded him, and his conduct became increasingly controversial.
Naval historian E. B. Potter,... Applauded by the public and revered by the men who served under him, Adm. William F. Halsey was one of the leading American personalities of World War...
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158,69 zł |