A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.
A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are.
Dieses eBook: "Die Hallig - Die Schiffbrüchigen auf dem Eiland in der Nordsee" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Clarence Henry Haring was an important historian of Latin America and a pioneer in initiating the study of Latin American colonial institutions among scholars in the United States.
The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.
The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.
The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.
The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal.
The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon During the Napoleonic Wars, more than twice as many British warships were lost to shipwreck than in battle.
'Eminently readable' The TLS Books of the Year, 2024Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, which provided a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonisation of the New World.
The first account of the Allied navies' vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognised events of modern history.
Clarence Henry Haring's 'The Pirates of the West Indies in the 17th Century' provides an in-depth look at the lives and exploits of pirates in the Caribbean during this tumultuous period.
In 'Die großen Seefahrer der Geschichte' präsentiert Jules Verne eine faszinierende Sammlung von Porträts berühmter Entdecker und Abenteurer aus verschiedenen Epochen.
The first account of the Allied navies' vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognised events of modern history.
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale.
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) was an armed conflict between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria (China)and Korea.
High cliffs jutting out into the Atlantic and the North Sea, many hundreds of rocky skerries, deep sea lochs, dangerous unseen reefs, powerful tides and gales that batter the land fiercely from all points of the compass.
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale.
Lost San Francisco takes readers on a journey back to the buildings, parks, stadia, ferries - even cemetaries and prisoners - that time and progress have swept aside.
Daniel Defoe's 'The History of the Pirates' is a gripping and detailed account of the ruthless world of pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Das Buch 'Königs-Eigen' von Kapitän Frederick Marryat ist ein klassischer Abenteuerroman, der die Geschichte von Kapitän Merton und seiner Mannschaft erzählt, die auf der Suche nach einem sagenumwobenen Schatz sind.
The 2025 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales.
The 19th-century MP John Burns described the Thames as 'liquid history' and ever since the Romans founded Londinium in 43 AD, the river has played a key cultural and economic, political and social role in the history of England.
Heinrich Smidts Seegeschichte-Sammelband "Die Abenteuer berühmter Seehelden, Epische Seeschlachten & Erzählungen" entführt den Leser in die faszinierende Welt der Seefahrt.
Heinrich Smidts Buch 'Seeschlachten und Abenteuer berühmter Seehelden' ist eine fesselnde Sammlung von Geschichten über die mutigen Taten und Abenteuer verschiedener Seehelden.
'The Lives & Times of the True Buccaneers' stands as a captivating anthology, shedding light on the enigmatic world of 17th-century piracy through a rich mosaic of narratives and literary styles.
