On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division During the First World War 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780857067166 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Blue Jackets who fought on land
The time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but also because it was the zenith of the 'age of sail' that left British sea power so dominant that Britannia really did 'rule the waves.' No navy could stand against the might of the Royal Navy, and so until Jutland during the Great War it would not fight another major battle at sea. Queen Victoria's ever expanding empire meant that British forces were perpetually set against often underdeveloped powers and the navy took its part, but most of the... The Blue Jackets who fought on land
The time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but al... |
|
cena:
72,50 zł |
Navy V-12
ISBN: 9781563111891 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of the Navy V-12 Program during World War II. The Program provided opportunities for young men whose families had suffered during the difficult times of the Great Depression. These high school graduates were offered the golden opportunity to attend colleges and universities. At the end of the program, more than 60,000 U.S. Navy and USMC officers had entered the armed forces for the war. Many, also entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in the post-ear period, and served in Korea and Vietnam. With photos -- 80+ pages of biographies of individual members of the program. Many include photos...
A history of the Navy V-12 Program during World War II. The Program provided opportunities for young men whose families had suffered during the diffic...
|
|
cena:
124,93 zł |
The Navy of the Republic of Texas 1835-1845
ISBN: 9781596412408 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students of history are generally aware that Texas, for ten years, was an independent Republic. However, many in this select group are surprised to learn that Texas in her struggle for independence possessed a Navy powerful enough to aid her in the struggle, and to successfully combat every effort of Mexico to regain her territory. The author in his research consulted a variety of sources and reference material, including newspapers, various Texas governmental documents, Texas histories, private papers, and material from the United States Naval Department. Dr. Dienst extracted and transcribed...
Students of history are generally aware that Texas, for ten years, was an independent Republic. However, many in this select group are surprised to le...
|
|
cena:
115,76 zł |
Innovation in Carrier Aviation (Naval War College Newport Papers, Number 37)
ISBN: 9781780396644 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published by the Naval War College Press. This study is about innovations in carrier aviation and the spread of those innovations from one navy to the navy of a close ally. The innovations are the angled flight deck; the steam catapult; and the mirror and lighted landing aid that enabled pilots to land jet aircraft on a carriers short and narrow flight deck. Illustrated.
Published by the Naval War College Press. This study is about innovations in carrier aviation and the spread of those innovations from one navy to the...
|
|
cena:
114,50 zł |
U.S. Navy at War: Official Reports by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S.N.
ISBN: 9781907521423 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the beginning of World War II, in the midst of building the United States Navy into a "two-ocean fleet," the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor put the effectiveness of American sea power in doubt. Three and a half years later, the U.S. Navy was undoubtedly the strongest in the world. In that time, the Japanese fleet had been shattered, the U-Boat threat was a thing of the past, and the Navy had supported the greatest amphibious campaigns in history. "U.S. Navy at War: Official Reports by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S.N.", consisting of three reports submitted by Admiral King to the...
At the beginning of World War II, in the midst of building the United States Navy into a "two-ocean fleet," the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor put t...
|
|
cena:
171,91 zł |
The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War: Culture and Strategy
ISBN: 9780714685694 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book suggests that institutional culture can account for a great deal of the activities and rationale of the Royal Navy. War highlights the role of culture in military organizations and as such acts as a spotlight by which this phenomenon can be assessed seperately and then in comparison in order to demonstrate the influence of institutional culture on strategy.
This book suggests that institutional culture can account for a great deal of the activities and rationale of the Royal Navy. War highlights the role ...
|
|
cena:
184,17 zł |
British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
ISBN: 9789042022720 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society. British Military and Naval Medicine challenges...
Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Pre...
|
|
cena:
384,48 zł |
Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power: Between Rising Naval Powers
ISBN: 9780415625524 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both with naval force development and operations. As part of its "Look East" policy, India has deployed naval units to the Pacific Ocean for port visits and exercises both with East Asian navies and the US Navy, but India is also concerned about the possibility of the Chinese Navy operating in the... This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible stra... |
|
cena:
276,28 zł |
Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships
ISBN: 9781846318184 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merchantmen below deck; as cooks, stewards and stokers. Nevertheless, the navy was possibly a unique institution in that black and white could work alongside each other more than in any other occupation. In this fascinating work, Dr. Ray Costello examines the work and experience of seamen of African descent in Britain's navy, from impressed slaves to...
During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at h...
|
|
cena:
589,83 zł |
Navy Daze: : Coming of Age in the 1960s Aboard a Navy Destroyer
ISBN: 9780788457357 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
99,09 zł |
In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War
ISBN: 9781612511382 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named a -Notable Naval Book of 2012- by Proceedings Magazine
Their stories needed to be told. And classmates working together, under a blanket of trust and friendship, was the only way to allow people to open up. It was a three year journey into the hearts and souls of America's youngest heroes to gather these important historical accounts, but it was worth every hour spent. Inside this book are the voices the first Annapolis graduates into a decade of war and they remind us that America is in good hands. They were walking to class on 9/11, wearing Naval Academy -summer... Named a -Notable Naval Book of 2012- by Proceedings Magazine
Their stories needed to be told. And classmates working together, under a bl... |
|
cena:
182,87 zł |
The Sea Was Always There
ISBN: 9781611792072 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
125,11 zł |
The Kaiser's Raider! Two Accounts of the S. M. S. Emden During the First World War by One of Its Officers: The Emden & the Ayesha Being the Advent
ISBN: 9780857068422 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two classics of war at sea
The author of this book, von Mucke wrote two accounts of his naval experiences in the Imperial German Navy during the First World War and both are brought together in this special Leonaur edition. Mucke was the executive officer and first lieutenant on the light cruiser SMS Emden. The Emden raided commercial shipping from her base at Tsingtao, China, into the Indian Ocean. After a four month raiding spree she was finally discovered and destroyed by the Australian Navy light cruiser Sydney. Prior to the arrival of the Sydney, von Mucke, commanding a 53 man... Two classics of war at sea
The author of this book, von Mucke wrote two accounts of his naval experiences in the Imperial German Navy during the ... |
|
cena:
125,66 zł |
The Kaiser's Raider! Two Accounts of the S. M. S. Emden During the First World War by One of Its Officers: The Emden & the Ayesha Being the Advent
ISBN: 9780857068439 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two classics of war at sea
The author of this book, von Mucke wrote two accounts of his naval experiences in the Imperial German Navy during the First World War and both are brought together in this special Leonaur edition. Mucke was the executive officer and first lieutenant on the light cruiser SMS Emden. The Emden raided commercial shipping from her base at Tsingtao, China, into the Indian Ocean. After a four month raiding spree she was finally discovered and destroyed by the Australian Navy light cruiser Sydney. Prior to the arrival of the Sydney, von Mucke, commanding a 53 man... Two classics of war at sea
The author of this book, von Mucke wrote two accounts of his naval experiences in the Imperial German Navy during the ... |
|
cena:
72,50 zł |
Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812
ISBN: 9780451239204 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812... Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty's brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. Though it lasted less than an hour, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise was...
On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders...
|
|
cena:
103,57 zł |
Dawn's Early Light
ISBN: 9781421405476 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their sights on Baltimore, home port to some of the most rapacious American privateers on the high seas. In The Dawn's Early Light, Walter Lord captures these events during the War of 1812. A native Baltimorean, Lord wrote with great force and feeling of the subsequent defense of Fort McHenry, the circumstances of Francis Scott Key's writing of -The Star-Spangled Banner, - and the rebirth of a young country. Students consider this book to... In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their ... |
|
cena:
129,28 zł |
Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History Since 1750
ISBN: 9781107406155 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened. Rather than there simply being more disease, breast cancer has entered the bodies of so many American women and the concerns of nearly all the rest, mostly as a result of how we have detected, labeled, and responded to the disease. The book traces changing definitions and understandings of breast cancer, the experience of breast cancer sufferers,...
In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written ...
|
|
cena:
250,69 zł |
Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific
ISBN: 9780870032714 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing interests, both nations are roiling the waters of the Indo-Pacific--the vast littoral stretching from Africa to Australasia. Invoking a tale from Hindu mythology-- "Samudra Manthan" or "to churn the ocean"--C. Raja Mohan tells the story of a Sino-Indian rivalry spilling over from the Great Himalayas into the Indian and Pacific Oceans. He examines the prospects of mitigating the tensions and constructing a stable Indo-Pacific order. America, the dominant power in the... Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing interests, both nations are ... |
|
cena:
86,09 zł |
Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History
ISBN: 9781848327504 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an empire and as the world's leading maritime power in the nineteenth century.
Scottish engineering, ship owning and operating, as well as business and entrepreneurial skills, played a major part in the success of the Merchant Navy, while Scottish emigrants took skills to every corner of the world, creating trade and wealth both abroad and at home. In terms of engineering, 'Clyde-built' was the Kite Mark for the shipbuilding industry the world... Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an em...
|
|
cena:
107,68 zł |
Operational History of Naval Communications December 1941 - August 1945 (Japanese Mongraph, Number 118)
ISBN: 9781780398402 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
171,91 zł |