In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "e;Dreadnought Revolution"e; of 1906.
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day.
Before Jutland is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic.
By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic.
In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon on the Western Front during World War I required a radical and unprecedented change in the way that national resources were employed to exploit a technological opportunity.
At War in Distant Watersinvestigates the reasons behind Great Britains combined military and naval offensive expeditions outside of Europe during the Great War.
There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas.
World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years.
Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject—governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history.
"e;If the promises of online news are to be fulfilled, books like this deserve the widest possible readership"e;Paul Bradshaw, University of Central England, UKIn this exciting and timely book Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis of online news.
One Palm Sunday, Echo Bodine prayed to be granted a better understanding of worlds beyond this one, and three days later she found herself on an amazing voyage.
A battle cry to rise up against the ACLU's attempts to destroy our freedom of religion-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Obama Nation.
Si vous êtes afro-américain ou si vous avez connu l’époque du Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques, ou si vous avez tout simplement envie de mieux connaître le personnage aussi énigmatique que charismatique que l’était Malcolm X, embarquez dans un voyage nostalgique.
Estamos habituados a ler e ouvir histórias ou até ver filmes de pessoas de êxito, sendo assim também no mundo da cozinha, como em qualquer ramo do saber.
David Bowie ha ispirato decine di biografie sul suo genio musicale, ma nessuna mai cosi ricca di particolari - e di foto inedite - come quella degli esordi dell'artista nella periferia londinese raccontanti dalla giornalista Mary Finnigan in Psychedelic Suburbia - David Bowie and The Beckenham Arts Lab, pubblicato da Jorvik Press .
A battle cry to rise up against the ACLU's attempts to destroy our freedom of religion-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Obama Nation.
The Americans had considerable initial success when they launched their huge offensive against the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne in the last days of September 1918.
The Americans had considerable initial success when they launched their huge offensive against the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne in the last days of September 1918.
It is easy to believe that the only part that Britain's railways played in the First World War was to carry the soldiers to the ships that would take them to France.
It is easy to believe that the only part that Britain's railways played in the First World War was to carry the soldiers to the ships that would take them to France.
The sector north of Ypres is best known for the inundation of much of the ground to the east of the Yser that acted as a block to the German advance in the autumn of 1914.
Any visitor to the site of the bloodiest battle in the history of the United States will be drawn to Montfaucon, for it is here that General Pershing, the Commander in Chief, determined that the major memorial to the American Expeditionary Forces would be sited.
So much has been written about the 1916 Battle of the Somme that it might appear that every aspect of the four-month struggle has been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail.
