Author: G.P.B. Naish
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Pitkin Pictorials

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was also Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824 she served as a harbour ship. In 1922 she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She continues to be flagship of the Second Sea Lord and is the oldest naval ship still in commission.

Author: Jerry E. Smith
Genre: Mind, Body & Spirit
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press

Author: Ha Lindsey
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell

Hal Lindsey, the father of modern-day Bible prophecy, contends that he has cracked the "Apocalypse Code" revealing long-hidden messages about man's future and the fate of the earth as prediced by the biblical prophet Daniel.
Review by A customer
1.0 out of 5 stars Re-hash of old material based upon a faulty premise.
5 July 1998
Format: Paperback
Most if not all of the material in this book is to be found in earlier books by this same author and many others of the same genre. The only thing new is the author's claimed discovery that the book of Revelation was encoded and he has discovered the key to unlock the code.
What the author proposes is that the book of Revelation is "encoded" because John could not have understood the things which he saw because they were to occur some 2000 years into the future or so. He supports this by giving to the term Apocalypse the meaning "the disclosure of secrets belonging to the last days". Apocalypse Code p.33
His claim of confirmation of this "code" is based upon Daniel 12:4, 8-10 in which Daniel is instructed to "shut up [encode] the words and seal the scroll". Apocalypse Code p.38
This reviewer however finds a fallacy in his reasoning based upon Revelation 22:10 in which John is instructed "Do NOT seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near." Or according to Mr. Lindsey's interpretation, "Do NOT ENCODE the words of the prophecy of this book". This same text also seems to discredit the author's assumption that these event would take place in the distant future.
On a final note, many of Mr. Lindsey's claims regarding the "signs" of the end applying to the present time have adequately been shown to be without foundation in the book "The "Sign" of the Last Days: When?" by Carl Olaf Jonsson and Wolfgang Herbst.

Author: Robert Mackay
Genre: History
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Rejecting contentions that morale fell short of the favourable picture presented during World War II and since, this work shows how government policies for maintaining morale were put in place.

How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This work offers a robust rejection of contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented during World War II and in hundreds of books and films ever since. It acknowledges that some negative attitudes and behaviours existed - panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering, looting, absenteeism and strikes - but argues that these involved a very small minority of the population. Robert Mackay demostrates how government policies for the maintainence of morale were put in place, giving special emphasis to the patriotic feeling that held the nation together despite the official pessimistic prognosis in the initial stages of the war.

Author: Ken Cuthbertson
Genre: History
Publisher: Patrick Crean Editions

On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That accident sparked a fire and an apocalyptic explosion that was the largest man-made blast prior to the 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Together with the killer tsunami that followed, the explosion devastated the entire city in the wink of an eye and instantly killed more than two thousand people.

While much has been written about the disaster, there is still more to the story, including the investigation of the key figures involved, the histories of the ships that collided and the confluence of circumstances that brought these two vessels together to touch off one of the most tragic man-made disasters of the twentieth century.

The Halifax Explosion is a fresh, revealing account that finally answers questions that have lingered for a century: Was the explosion a disaster triggered by simple human error? Was it caused by the negligence of the ships’ pilots or captains? Was it the result of shortcomings in harbour practices and protocols? Or was the blast—as many people at the time insisted—the result of sabotage carried out by wartime German agents?

December 6, 2017, marks the centennial of the great Halifax explosion. The Halifax Explosion tells the gripping, as-yet untold story of Canada’s worst disaster—a haunting tale of survival, incredible courage and, ultimately, the triumph of the human spirit

Author: Sonntag, Hartmut / Harms, Uwe (editor)
Publisher: Kahl & Domms, Hamburg, 1981

Author: H.M.S.O.

Author: O'HARA, MONICA HARDING

Author: Bob Marston
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing

Harrier Boys

Author: Stephen Brown
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Ferry Publications

Harwich has long been associated with the sea and its port at Parkeston Quay has seen a worthy succession of ferries and other commercial vessels not only having been utilised in regular service across the North Sea but also in moving goods from around the world. Much of its acclaimed rise into being one of Britain’s foremost ferry ports was due to the foresight and investment of the various railway companies that once owned it. What follows is an account of the many major developments that occurred up until the end of the 1980s when both ownership by the railways and the scope of this book ends. This publication traces the history and development of the Port of Harwich. The book also looks at the services of the Port to Europe up until the end of the last centuary. A full fleet list of ships with detailed back ground information that have sailed in and out of Harwich.

Author: COWSILL, MILES & HENDY, JOHN

Author: David Brandon
Genre: History
Publisher: The History Press

London's Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings. Particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago, have given rise to unexplained events. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished tales of spirits, specters, and other spooky occurrences on one of the oldest railway networks in the world. The stories of sightings include the ghost of an actress regularly witnessed on Aldywch Station and the "Black Nun" at Bank Station. Eerie noises, such as the cries of 13 year-old Anne Naylor, who was murdered in 1758 at Farringdon Station, and the screams of children who were in an accident at Bethnal Green Station during World War Ii, are still heard echoing down the stations. These and many more ghostly accounts are recorded in fascinating detail in this book, which is a must-read for anyone interested in the mysterious and murky history of London's Underground.

Author: Agnes L. Mcculloch
Genre: History
Publisher: Countyvise Ltd

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Author: Maggie Jones
Publisher: Headline

Author: Trudy Brasure
Genre: Victorian Historical Romance (Books)
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

When Margaret Hale hastily rejected the wealthy industrialist's fervent marriage proposal, she could not have foreseen the events that would lead her to change her mind and open her heart. But was it too late now to let the handsome, brooding mill owner know? Based on the novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, this book weaves a change near the end of the original plot to create a romantic continuation of an enduring love story.  A Heart for Milton brings to life all of Gaskell's rich characters: Nicholas Higgins, Hannah Thornton, Henry Lennox, Mr. Bell, and others. But at its core, this tale unfolds the joy, hope, passion, and fulfillment of the love forged between John Thornton and Margaret Hale as the reader follows their journey through the uncertainties of their engagement to the trials encountered in their first year of marriage ...and beyond.

Author: Trudy Brasure
Genre: Victorian Historical Romance (Books)
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

When Margaret Hale hastily rejected the wealthy industrialist's fervent marriage proposal, she could not have foreseen the events that would lead her to change her mind and open her heart. But was it too late now to let the handsome, brooding mill owner know? Based on the novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, this book weaves a change near the end of the original plot to create a romantic continuation of an enduring love story.  A Heart for Milton brings to life all of Gaskell's rich characters: Nicholas Higgins, Hannah Thornton, Henry Lennox, Mr. Bell, and others. But at its core, this tale unfolds the joy, hope, passion, and fulfillment of the love forged between John Thornton and Margaret Hale as the reader follows their journey through the uncertainties of their engagement to the trials encountered in their first year of marriage ...and beyond.

Author: James B. Stewart
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Simon & Schuster International

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Author: JONES, TRISTAN

Author: Dilip Sarkar
Genre: History
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

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Author: Ronnie Watt
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Southern Book Publishers

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Author: Peter Sasgen
Genre: History
Publisher: New American Library

By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue to fight. Yet this once mighty merchant fleet continued to thrive in the Sea of Japan, where, protected from American submarines by a seemingly impenetrable barrier of deadly minefields, they provided a tenuous lifeline for the Japanese.

With no knowledge of the secret development of the atomic bomb, senior American sub force commanders, desperate to avoid an invasion of the home islands, believed that if these enemy ships, vitally important to the enemy's war effort, were sunk, Japan would be forced to surrender.

For the first time ever, author Peter Sasgen tells the complete, incredible story of Operation Barney, the daring plot to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the Sea of Japan and decimate the enemy fleet. The brainchild of the dedicated sub commander Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, the mission would hinge on a new experimental sonar system that would, with luck, guide American submarines safely past the mines and into the open sea.

The nine submarines chosen, nicknamed Hellcats, were tasked with the impossible—the combined crews of 760 submariners all knew their chances of survival were slim. Based on original documents and the poignant personal letters of one doomed Hellcat commander, Sasgen crafts a classic naval tale of one of World War II's most dangerous missions.

Author: Roger George Clark, Daniel Topolski
Genre: Reference
Publisher: John Murray

Henley: The Regatta

Author: Charles Pellegrino
Genre: Maritime Archaeology
Publisher: Robert Hale

BRAND NEW, MINT CONDITION HARD COVER BOOK WITH DUSTJACKET AND PROTECTIVE WRAPPER AROUND DUSTJACKET (please see photo's) *******MINT CONDITION******* HER NAME TITANIC: The Untold Story Of The Sinking And Finding Of The Unsinkable Ship by CHARLES PELLEGRINO Description of book: In this spell-binding work of oceanography, Pellegrino offsets the dramatic sinking of the legendary Cun ard liner against the incredible science-fiction-like discov ery of the wreck. ' On the evening of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the awesome ocean liner Titanic - the majestic queen of the White Star fleet - struck an iceberg and quickly vanished into the frigid blackness of the North Atlantic. Seventy-three years later, a dedicated group of scientists set sail in search of the sunken behemoth - an incredible mission that uncovered shocking secrets buried two miles below the ocean's surface. ISBN: 0-7090-4242-6

Author: Robert Jeffrey, Ian Watson
Genre: History
Publisher: Black and White Publishing

This evocative collection of photographs of the Clyde and its people is a unique chronicle of the life and times of the river - from the halycon days when resorts like Rothesay, Largs, Ayr and Prestwick were a playground for the people of Clydeside, and passenger steamers like the Waverley plied their trade to and fro across the Firth, to the dark days of the Clydeside blitz, and the golden age of shipbuilding, when battleships and ocean liners sailed majestically down the river and into legend

Author: Here Is New York
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Scalo

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Author: Julie Mcdonald Zander
Genre: History
Publisher: Chapters of Life

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Herman Klaber bought several hundred acres in the lush Boistfort Valley of Lewis County and planted hops. The Klaber hopyard flourished, providing many jobs in the community. But tragedy struck after Herman Klaber left for a sales trip to Europe and England, and, anxious to return home to his young wife and daughter in Washington, boarded the White Star line's new luxury ship, the RMS Titanic, on its fateful maiden voyage.

Author: John Hawkins
Genre: Bestsellers
Publisher: Sutton Publishing

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Author: Jon Barret
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Alyson Publications Inc

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Author: J. Allaway
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Airlife Publishing Ltd

This volume is Allaway's international biography of Britain's greatest ever submarine captain.

Author: Alec Beilby
Genre: Maritime
Publisher: Patrick Stephens Ltd

During 1991 the lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were called out nearly 5000 times and saved more than 1300 lives. The author of this book visited over 130 lifeboat stations during his research for this book, logging the details of hundreds of missions, from the earliest days of the RNLI to the present time. Some of the stories are tragic, others amusing, with many tales of sheer courage earning the lifeboat crews awards for heroism.

Author: Alec Beilby
Genre: Health & Welfare
Publisher: Patrick Stephens Limited (Haynes Group)

During 1991 the lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were called out nearly 5000 times and saved more than 1300 lives. The author of this book visited over 130 lifeboat stations during his research for this book, logging the details of hundreds of missions, from the earliest days of the RNLI to the present time. Some of the stories are tragic, others amusing, with many tales of sheer courage earning the lifeboat crews awards for heroism.

Author: Glynn Kraemer-Johnson, John Bishop
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing

Provides a record of many of vehicles and operations of East Kent from late 1950s through to the early 1970s when the company's traditional identity gradually disappeared following its incorporation into National Bus Company. It includes selected images and the captions provides reader with an account of the vehicles and routes of the period.

Author: Hulton Getty Picture Library
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Spruce

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Author: Maurice Griffiths
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services

New but a litle shelf wear around edges of dustjacket. Posted from Anglesey, North Wales

Author: COLLIER, BASIL

Author: Basil Collier
Genre: History
Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd

In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents and derivative literature now available, and I admire the judgement that is evident throughout the book. Within the limits of treating the widest aspects of Intelligence in World War II in a small compass, Mr Collier has told the whole truth, fortunately without it turning out to be very unfavorable; and in the lessons to be drawn from it we indeed have one element of security if properly applied'. Basil Collier throws fresh light on the low priority given to Intelligence between the wars; the tendency of ministers and senior officials to rely less on intelligence reports than their own individual hunches; the failure to foresee the invasion of Norway; why, even with the aid of Enigma it was impossible to turn the scales in Crete, and why the Americans, though privy to some of Japans most closely guarded secrets, allowed the Pearl Harbor attack to take them by surprise.

Author: Prebble John
Genre: History
Publisher: Pan Books

Review by Amazon Reader: Robert Loney
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fateful Night
2 March 2012 - Published on Amazon.com
It would be hard to write an account of the Tay bridge disaster of 1879 that isn't gripping. Prebble does at least an adequate job of presenting the details and I found his book hard to put down. He opens with the doomed train and the 75 people on board about to cross the two mile bridge at Dundee, Scotland on an evening late in December with a gale force wind coming down the Tay. The carriages crawl past the signal cabin... passengers looking out, one of them a child... strange flashes from the train on the bridge... two men from the signal cabin come out to investigate and in the moonlight see that all the high girders are gone, fallen with the train into the river. Prebble then backs up to tell the story of the building of the bridge, the longest in the world at the time. We get to know Thomas Bouch, the engineer in charge of its design. Queen Victoria travelled across his new creation on her way back from Balmoral in June 1879. She knighted Bouch shortly afterward.

It's haunting to read how fate played with some of the passengers. One woman had planned to take an earlier train but her coachman overslept. One man boarded a train for Perth instead of Dundee but corrected his mistake just in time. Two newlyweds were supposed to be on the train but were persuaded by friends to postpone their journey because of the terrible weather. Another man's friends tried to detain him at St. Andrews but he chose to walk several miles through the rain to catch the train. A grieving mother waiting for the body of her daughter to be recovered from the river got a telegram from the girl apologizing for staying in Edinburgh instead of coming home when she was supposed to. For some, the tragedy was compounded. Two men travelling separately were returning from burying their fathers. One fellow was returning from comforting his mother; his sister had been buried the previous week.

Blame for the disaster was laid almost completely on Bouch. Thoroughly disgraced, he died 10 months later from a cold, aged 58. One wonders how much the terrible strain had compromised his immune system.

A map would have been helpful to locate the places mentioned.

Author: PREBBLE, JOHN

Author: Joan Sims
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Corgi Books

From Nurse Stella Dawson in "Carry On Nurse" to Mrs Dangle in "Carry On Emmanuelle", Joan Sims appeared in 24 Carry On films. In her autobiography, she shares affectionate memories of Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor.

Author: William Miller
Publisher: Fonthill Media

Ocean liners conjure up an instant image of luxury. The great salons and smoking room, the suites, the staterooms and even the indoor swimming pools. This book will look at a century or so of the decor of ocean liners. It begins with the likes of the 'Mauretania', commissioned in 1907, and shows the Edwardian flourish and finery-the palm court days. We move into the 1920s & '30s, to Art Nouveau, German Bauhaus and of course the high glamour of Art Deco. Ships include the 'Paris', the innovative 'Ile de France', the 'Bremen' and the stunning 'Normandie' and 'Queen Mary'. Then there is post-war moderne, 'mid century' as it is dubbed today, and finally the contemporary of the current cruise generation-the floating resorts.

Author: Paul Curtis
Publisher: The History Press

THIS amusing insight into Cunard’s legendary liners begins more than fifty years ago when Paul Curtis joined the original Queen Mary as entertainments officer. Over a Cunard high tea in the Queens Room, Paul recounts the stories of these iconic ships. Then, over a drink in the Red Lion, he shares the tales of the antics of both passengers and crews. The facts are delivered in vivid detail – some of them things you should know and an occasional peep at things you shouldn’t. Simply turning these pages releases a sniff of the sea and a whiff of champagne. Paul has worked, travelled upon or photographed every Cunard Queen ever built. He has an offbeat sense of humour and a keen appetite for the ridiculous. A life at sea can do that to you.

Author: Paul Feeney
Genre: History
Publisher: The History Press

Illustrated with 200 archive photographs, postcards and other printed ephemera, this title guides the reader on a circular journey around the area, taking in street scenes, buildings, monuments and public spaces, including Highgate Cemetery, Lauderdale House, the Whittington Stone and Waterlow Park.

Author: David Milner
Genre: History
Publisher: Pan

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War Macmillan published a much-loved and extremely successful series of books under the title of 'Highways and Byways'. In them, the authors took readers on a delightful guided tour of the country, county by county, pointing out places of interest, key historical events and local lore and legend. Now, Macmillan is reissuing - in one beautifully designed volume - a selection of those highways and byways, which affords contemporary readers both a charming period piece and a wonderful glimpse of the very best of Britain.

Author: ROVIN, JEFF

Author: MOONEY, MICHAEL M.

Author: Michael M Mooney
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services

1st Mayflower edition paperback. vg condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Author: Rick Archbold, Ken Marschall
Genre: History
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The giant airship "Hindenburg" crashing to the ground in flames remains one of the most instantly recognizable photographs this century. Truly a flying luxury liner, the "Hindenburg" was the largest object ever launched in the air and her spectacular destruction on May 6th, 1937, marked the end of airship travel. This book looks at Germany's titanic airship and the other silver giants that once silently crossed the skies. It chronicles the great dirigibles, from the pioneering efforts of Count Zeppelin to the years between the wars when the United States and Great Britain competed with Germany for the prestige of building the world's most advanced airships. British hopes of airship flights spanning the empire had ended before the "Hindenburg" disaster with the crash of the R101 in a French field.

Author: Robert Lomas, Christopher Knight
Genre: History
Publisher: Arrow

Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4, 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs: Were scrolls bearing the secret teachings of Jesus buried beneath Herod's Temple shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman's? Did the Knights Templar, the forerunners of modern Freemasonry, excavate these scrolls in the twelfth century? And were these scrolls subsequently buried underneath a reconstruction of Herod's Temple, Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland - where they are now awaiting excavation? The authors' discoveries shed a new light on Masonic ceremony and overturn out understanding of history.

Author: BERNADAC, BERNARD

Author: RENTELL, PHILIP

Author: Capt. Philip Rentell
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Atlantic Transport & Publishers

Illustrated with full colour period postcards. Great aid for postcard collecting.
Fine overview of the vessels of the CUNARD LINE; using period postcards to illustrate; all are in full-color; 1 vessel to a page with extensive text; published without a dust jacket in full-color glossy boards

The front cover features the Queen Mary. The Contents are: The Cunard Line - A Brief History; Servia 1881 - 1902; Etruria 1884 - 1909; Lucania 1893 - 1909; Carpathia 1903 - 1918; Caronia 1905 - 1933; CArmania 1905 - 1932; Lusitania 1906 - 1915; Mauretania 1907 - 1935; Franconia 1911 - 1916; Berengaria 1913 - 1938; Aquitania 1914 - 1950; Samaria 1921 - 1956; Scythia 1921 - 1958; Andania 1922 - 1940; Antonia 1922 - 1948; Ausonia 1921 - 1965; Laconia 1922 - 1942; Lancastria 1922 - 1940; Carinthia 1925 - 1940; Ascania 1925 - 1956; Queen Mary 1936 - 1967; Queen Elizabeth 1940 - 1972; Mauretania 1939 - 1965; Parthia 1948 - 1961; Caronia 1948 - 1968; Saxonia/Carmania 1954 - 1963 - 1973; Ivernia/Franconia 1955 - 1963 - 1973; Carinthia 1956 - 1968; Sylvania 1957 - 1968; Queen Elizabeth 2 1969; Cunard Adventurer 1971 - 1977; Cunard Ambassador 1972 - 1974; Cunard Countess 1976; and Cunard Princess 1977.

Author: Philip Rentell
Genre: Ships
Publisher: Waterfront Publications

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Author: NOCK, O.S.

Author: O. S. Nock
Genre: Road & Transport
Publisher: Arrow

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Author: RENTELL, PHILIP

Author: Capt. Philip Rentell
Genre: History
Publisher: Blue Water Publications

Part of a series of ship history book illustrated with color period postcards. The format is a ship per page with a postcards, stats, and a short history. The images start with the GERMANIC of 1875 and finishes with the GEORGIC of 1932. Informative and great fun to browse through.

Author: A. W. Moore
Genre: History
Publisher: Ferry Publications

Written for the fans of the 'Isle of Man Steam Packet Company', this title includes many early black-and-white views of the Company.

Author: LANFANT, COMMANDANT

Author: Lanfant, Commandant
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Grafic Foto, Dunkerque, 1979

Several photographic plates. No. 1963 of a limited edition of only 2000 copies.
Publisher: Association of Former Members of the General Staffs of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes

Author: See Notes Multiple Contributors
Genre: History
Publisher: Gale ECCO, Print Editions

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict.
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<Notes>Half-title: 'Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. No XVIII. .. ' - Forms vol.1, part 3 of the collection of the same title. Pagination continues that of No.6.

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Author: Andrew Langley
Genre: History

Heinemann 1997 paperback book

Author: Andrew Langley
Genre: History

Heinemann 1997 paperback book

Author: John Richardson
Genre: History
Publisher: Historical Publications Ltd

The London Borough of Camden consists of three diverse and vibrant areas - Holborn, Hampstead and St Pancras. Its borders contain most aspects of London's development. It is known for its railway history, important art movements, innumerable famous residents, notable theatres, ancient legal quarters, popular open spaces and innovations in education and medical treatment, not to mention the British Museum and British Library, the University of London, the Sir John Soane Museum and one of the country's most vigorous local history societies. This book by the chairman of Camden History Society sums it up.

176pp, inc. 142 illus, cloth, jacket, sm. 4to

Author: Michael Foster
Genre: Home & Garden
Publisher: New Cavendish Books

416 pages with 618 photographs and diagrams

Author: VARIOUS

Author: KEMP, PETER

Author: A. J. P. Taylor
Genre: History
Publisher: Purnell

A history of the world between 1900-1965 covering all the main topics in political, military, social, scientific, economic and cultural history.

Much acclaimed series edited by AJP Taylor in 96 parts and later extended to 128 parts, the last 32 issues appearing under the heading 'Our World Today'.

The whole series makes into 8 bound volumes of magazines, plus separate slimmer volumes called History of 20th Century Scrapbook and 'Our World Today' Scrapbook, which are made up from the back covers of the magazines.

The series was issued more than once, first edition pre-decimal (3/6 per copy), then post-decimal (25p).

No 1 in the first edition came wrapped in a free 32p-supplement with a survey of 20th Century. The second edition instead of the supplement has centre pages outlining the scope and structure of the series.

Largely the editions are interchangeable with the covers providing any difference in the series. After the first few issues the only indication of the magazine is the price in post-decimal.

Author: A. J. P. Taylor
Genre: History
Publisher: Purnell

A history of the world between 1900-1965 covering all the main topics in political, military, social, scientific, economic and cultural history.

Much acclaimed series edited by AJP Taylor in 96 parts and later extended to 128 parts, the last 32 issues appearing under the heading 'Our World Today'.

The whole series makes into 8 bound volumes of magazines, plus separate slimmer volumes called History of 20th Century Scrapbook and 'Our World Today' Scrapbook, which are made up from the back covers of the magazines.

The series was issued more than once, first edition pre-decimal (3/6 per copy), then post-decimal (25p).

No 1 in the first edition came wrapped in a free 32p-supplement with a survey of 20th Century. The second edition instead of the supplement has centre pages outlining the scope and structure of the series.

Largely the editions are interchangeable with the covers providing any difference in the series. After the first few issues the only indication of the magazine is the price in post-decimal.

Author: FIELD, HENRY M.

Author: Robin Bextor
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Demand Media Limited

It's hard to think of any institution that more readily represents London than the Underground system. Practical, egalitarian, efficient, popular, logical, organized and yet infuriating, maddening, and confusing--it stands for everything modern life does in this great world capital. Most Londoners simply take the Tube for granted, a huge resource that links us work, friends, entertainment and every facet of life in the City. The Underground is dependable, ever present--it's that gentle giant that rumbles in the distance, those familiar red circles on the street, and yet it wasn't always like that. London wasn't always like it is today. In this special little book, meet the men who created this amazing resource, the pioneers who envisaged a joined up city and learn about the failures and successes, the secrets, the missing stations, the urban myths, and the way the Tube has become a vital part of London life. There are more fascinating facts than you can imagine. Think about London and you can't help but think about the Tube. Hop on but mind the gap.

Author: Arthur H. Norway
Genre: History
Publisher: Forgotten Books

Excerpt from History of the Post-Office Packet Service Between the Years 1793-1815

Author: John Maxtone Graham
Publisher: Summit Group

124 pages - 27 x 21cm

The story of the refit and conversion of SS France to SS Norway

Very scarce & highly sought-after.  Sold on ebay for £19.24 on 27th January 2008

Author: Anna Baldini
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Casa Editrice Bonechi

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Author: Robin Gardiner
Genre: Business, Finance & Law
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing

The History of the White Star Line

Author: Renison Jessica
Genre: History
Publisher: Igloo Books Ltd

Past Times no longer in business, summary unavailable.

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A different approach to history, this book encourages the reader to experience important, world-changing events as though they were there. Packed with newspaper articles and explanatory text about events which truly changed and shaped our world.

Author: Michela Cocolin
Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Seen as an agricultural utopia within Hitler's Germany, it is often the view that both East and West Prussia had remained relatively untouched during the Second World War. Yet the violence, prejudice and murder associated with the National Socialist regime that brought most of Europe to ruin were widespread throughout Prussia during its brief existence. When the MV _Wilhelm Gustloff_ was sunk by a Russian submarine just after 9pm on 30 January 1945, 9,343 passengers - 5,000 of them children - would perish. It was the worst loss of life in maritime history, six times greater than the one of the RMS Titanic. Launched by Adolf Hitler on 5 May 1937 and the KdF (Kraft durch Freude = Strength through Joy) as a recreational and propaganda tool, the MV _Wilhelm Gustloff_ would suffer the same fate as the nation it once represented. Yet 75 years later, her tragic story is still unknown to many. Combining existing material and new findings, this book tells the story of Prussia's rise and fall as a military power, the attempts by brave civilians as well as military personnel determined to overturn the evil regime they had made an oath to serve and the desperate evacuation of refugees to the West in one of the greatest exodus ever seen, told by those who were there.

Author: John CORNWELL
Genre: History
Publisher: Viking

Covering the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler’s Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.

Author: KAHN, DAVID

Author: Richard Bassett
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Pegasus Books

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Author: Richard Bassett
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Pegasus Books

A remarkable tale of espionage and intrigue―the story of Wilhelm Canaris, Hitler’s intelligence chief, and his role in the conspiracy to assassinate the Fu¨hrerAdmiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris would turn against the Fu¨hrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler had started a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England.For years Canaris played a dangerous double game, desperately trying to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo. SS chief Heinrich Himmler became suspicious of Canaris in 1944,when Abwehr personnel were involved in the botched Operation Valkyrie. The SS had the evidence they needed to arrest Canaris himself; he was executed a few weeks before the end of the war.In this riveting true story, Richard Bassett reveals how Admiral Canaris’s secret work against the German leadership helped change the course of World War II. 16 pages of B&W photographs

Author: Richard John Westwood
Genre: History
Publisher: Pen & Sword Transport

This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain. January 1968 saw the convening of the first Parliamentary Court of Inquiry into a railway accident in Britain since the Tay Bridge Disaster nearly a century before. Why was this? Because Britain's 'Railway Detectives', the Railway Inspectorate, who would normally investigate all aspects of railway safety, were also in charge of the introduction of automatic Continental-style, level-crossings into this country. At Hixon in Staffordshire, one of these newly installed 'robot' crossings on British Rail's flagship Euston to Glasgow mainline, was the scene of a fatal high-speed collision between a packed express train and an enormous, heavily laden low-loader. For once, the 'Railway Detectives' were the ones having to explain their actions, in the full glare of media attention, to an expectant and increasingly worried nation. (There was another awful, fatal collision at an automatic crossing at Beckingham, Lincolnshire, in April of 1968). Using previously undisclosed information, the author has been able to cast fresh light on to not only the Hixon Disaster, but also the extraordinary story of the largely successful attempts, by British Railways and the Railway Inspectorate of the time, to hide the truth of just how close we came to having dozens of 'Hixons' right across the rail network.

Author: Simon Mills
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Shipping Books Press

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Author: Neil McCart
Genre: History
Publisher: Maritime Books

by Amazon reader John A. Fornshell
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HMS Glory 1945 - 1961
26 December 2010 - Published on Amazon.com
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HMS Glory by Neil McDort is a solid, although brief, history of one of Her Majesties aircraft carriers during a period when ships of this class were becomming the most important component of navies in the modern world. HMS Glory, was designed and built for use in the second world war, but actively served an additional decade participating in the first of the military confrontations of the cold war. She gave a good account of herself as is clearly doccumented by Neil McCort. This in many ways is the story of her crew as much as the ship. The book is well illustrated and has good balance of both technical information and accounts of those who sailed in her. The writing is clear and easy to read throughout.

Author: DYSON, LT CDR TONY

Author: David Roberts
Genre: History
Publisher: Avid Publications

The Birkenhead-built submarine Thetis sank on her sea trials in Liverpool Bay in 1939 taking 99 men with her. This book exposes the truth about the handling and aftermath of the terrible disaster. It attempts to answer why did the Official Enquiry blame nobody, explaining it away as 'an unfortunate sequence of events'? Why did the legal action for compensation on behalf of widows fail? Did the Admiralty cover it up? How much did Churchill know? How were those left behind treated? The book contains many interviews with relatives of victims, as well as secret Royal Navy reports.

Author: HAYWARD, VICTOR

Author: John Mcilwain
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Pitkin Pictorials

Step aboard this sleek black battleship into the world of the Victorian sailor. Moored at Portsmouth, this ship fascinates adults and children, residents and visitors.

Author: Tony Dyson
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Maritime Bks.

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Author: Drew Wilson
Genre: History
Publisher: Drew Wilson

In September 1994, the passenger ferry Estonia set out on an overnight cruise from Tallinn, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden and sank in the Baltic Sea, killing nearly 1000 people in 35 minutes. It was the worst peacetime sea catastrophe in European waters in the 20th century. A controversial government investigation blamed the ship's design and high waves. But the Estonia was the only intact ship in maritime history to sink in less than one hour -- faster than some torpedoed ships. This disturbing fact is the core of the tragedy and was left unexplained. The victims still remain in the shipwreck in shallow depth just off the coast of Finland, a spot militarily guarded by Sweden. "The Hole: Another look at the sinking of the Estonia ferry on September 28, 1994" examines alternative explanations in view of post-Soviet chaos, proceeding from the theory that the Estonia had a hole -- from a collision or an explosion.

Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Random House

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Author: Peter C. Kohler
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: Ship Pictorial Publications

A review of the ships operated by the Netherlands steam ship owners over 120 years from the last few years of the 19th century onwards including Statendam III, Nieuw Amsterdam II to the later Statendam V.

Author: William H. Miller
Genre: Business, Finance & Law
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

Founded in 1873, the Holland America Line provided services carrying passengers and freight between the Netherlands and North America. When the Second World War ended, only nine of Holland America Line’s twenty-five ships had survived and the company set about rebuilding. The pride of HAL’s post-war fleet was SS Rotterdam, completed in 1959, which was one of the first ships on the North Atlantic equipped to offer two-class transatlantic crossings and single-class luxury cruising. However, competition from the airlines meant that in the early 1970s Holland America ended their transatlantic passenger services; in 1973 the company sold its cargo-shipping division. Now owned by the American cruise line Carnival, Holland America offers round-the-world voyages and cruises in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Asia. In this book, renowned ocean liner historian and author William H. Miller takes a look at the Holland America Line and its post-war fleet up to 2015.

Author: Frank L Gosselin
Publisher: Blurb

Follow the 31 year history from 1961 to 1992 of a US Navy base at a location in the Scottish Highlands during the Cold War, and the resulting interaction between the Scottish and American men and women. Follow the stories of both Scottish and American men and women as they share this 31 year period that would for many, change their lives forever..

Author: J. B Cowell
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Gwynedd County Council Library Service

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Author: Jon Katz
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Ebury Press

A Home for Rose The author leaves the suburbs for a remote farm in order to give Border Collie puppy Rose - along with our friend Devon from A Dog Year - a true taste of herding life. But with Rose by his side the author finds there is little that together they can't do, and as spring comes and the frost thaws he finds himself battered, drained yet exhilarated. Full description

Author: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Arizona Memorial Museum, Hawaii, USA (1986)

Facsimile Newspapers. 1st Extra Sunday, December 7, 1941 "War! Oahu Bombed by Japanese Planes.", 2nd Extra "Deaths over 400 on Oahu", 3rd Extra "Martial Law Declared". Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12"

Facsimile Reproduction of the Honolulu Star-bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser Issued After the Dec. 7, 1941 Attack

Reproductions of front pages of the Dec. 7, 1941, issues (called 1st, 2nd and 3rd extra) of: Honolulu star-bulletin, and: Dec. 8. 1941 issue of: Honolulu advertis

If there is a second in line for the most common phone call or email about a newspaper which turns out to be a reprint, it would be the December 7, 1941 of the “Honolulu Star-Bulletin – 1st Extra“.

The genuine issue is arguably the best newspaper to have reporting the historic bombing of Pearl Harbor, being a dramatic headline, from the day it happened, and from where it happened. And consequently those conditions make it ripe for creating a reprint edition. From what I understand the reprints are still available at the souvenir shop at the Pearl Harbor memorial.

There are a couple of tell-tale indicators which are easily observed:

* The genuine issue has an ink smear between the “A” and “R” in the huge “WAR ! ” in the headline.

* The reprint edition does not have the ink smear, it having been “cleaned up” to make for a better appearance.

* The genuine “1st Extra” is 8 pages and does not have the “2nd Extra” nor the “3rd Extra” within, as they were separate, stand-alone edition printed later in the day. The reprint editions typically have one of both of the later editions on pages 3 and/or 5.

* At least one of the reprint edition has the front page of the “Honolulu Advertiser” newspaper on page 3. Obviously a competing newspaper’s front page would not be found within a genuine issue of the “Star-Bulletin”.

As if the above are not sufficient in determine a genuine from reprint edition, the photos of the reprints typically have a “muddy” appearance and are not as crisp & clear as would be found in the genuine issue.

Author: Ken Follett
Genre: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Publisher: Pan General Fiction

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it.

Author: Cliff White
Genre: History
Publisher: John Cowell

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Author: PLUMRIDGE, JOHN H.

Author: J.H. Plumridge
Genre: Strategy, Tactics & Military Science
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co Ltd

Overview of peculiar problems created by transportation of the wounded in time of war and the history of hospital ships and ambulance trains which served the British armed forces; well-illustrated with b & w photos

Author: Joseph H. Steinbicker
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: 1stBooks Library

The book describes the life of the author and his many narrow escapes from early civilian life through an almost two year overseas adventure and a return to civilian life, not entirely a piece of cake.

Author: RICHARDS, PHIL & BANIGAN, JOHN J.

Author: Dr Sal Severe
Genre: Business, Finance & Law
Publisher: Vermilion

This book teaches you how to teach your children to behave, how to listen and how to be more co-operative. It shows you how to be consistent and manager your anger. It explains how to prevent arguments and power struggles. It will make discipline simple and your life easier. You will learn how to enjoy being a parent.

Author: Toby Young
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Abacus

How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

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Author: Tim Cooper
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Ebury Press

From steam engines and suspension bridges to canals, factories and pubs, the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries transformed the social and material landscape of Britain. Yet how many of us know why our local pub looks the way it does or why a railway station might resemble a cathedral? This book reveals how, by 'reading' buildings, structures and townscapes, we can understand their context and significance for the society that created them.

Author Tim Cooper uses themes including transport, education and religion to show how the geographical and architectural remains of industrial Britain have shaped us as a people. He sheds light on how and why the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution redesigned our towns and countryside, and draws on a wealth of British sites to explain, for instance, how canals were instrumental in the expansion of industry, or why affluent suburbs are usually situated in the west end of a town.

This book is a joy for anyone wanting to investigate our industrial heritage and discover the secret history behind familiar, everyday features of our urban and rural landscapes.

Author: Frances Wilson
Genre: History
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety.

Author: LONGMATE, NORM|NAN

Author: Norman Longmate
Genre: History
Publisher: Arrow Books

'Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it is fascinatingly out-of-the-way, and all of it contributes to building up a true picture of everyday life in England from September 19S9 to August 1945'.CYRIL CONNOLLY IN THE SUNDAY TIMES'... A land-mine of information covering every field of civilian life in wartime from the grandeurs of the blitz to the miseries of dried eggs and the six-inch bath'.

Author: Charles Higham
Genre: Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Pan

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Author: Ladybird Books
Publisher: Ladybird Books

Book Description: Ladybird Books, 1982.

Author: HAYES, SIR BERTRAM (Autographed)

Author: Bertram (Sir) Hayes, Illustrator-With B&Amp, W Illus.
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Cassell

Commodore of the White Star Line tells of his days on wind-jammers, carrying troops in the First World War and other travels. The author had 45 years experience at sea.

Author: SCHAAP, DICK & SCHAAP, DICK

Author: Whitley Strieber
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Pocket Books

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Author: Nick Cook
Genre: History
Publisher: Century

The Hunt for Zero Point: One Man's Journey to Discover the Biggest Secret Since the Invention of the Atom Bomb

Author: Nick Cook
Genre: History
Publisher: Century

The nuclear bomb programme was the culmination of a huge, expensive research development project, so secret that even days before the explosion of the first bomb many people said it was impossible. But what if, at the same time, America had discovered another strand of technology that was even more powerful than atomic science, a weapon so powerful it needs no fuel to fly at 17000 miles per second? Defence journalist Nick Cook reveals a 50-year conspiracy to surpress a technology based on anti-gravity, way ahead of its time. Gravity control: technology that can cancel out the weight of objects or be transformed into engines that produce energy from nothing, promising safe, pollution-free power, limitless propulsion - and weapons potential, The US aerospace and defence industry announced in 1956 that it was on the brink of a great scientific discovery and that the breakthrough would come before the decade was out. But it never happened; the revolution died before it had begun. That was the official version of events. The truth, however, Cook maintains, is very different, and this book traces his 10-year investigation to prove that America cracked the gravity code and classified the technology at unheard of security levels. In his pursuit of the truth, he went to the heart of US aerospace development - a regime so secret it does not officially exist. Cook's trail took him eventually to Germany, searching out a repository of technical secrets buried 50 years earlier by the Nazis. There, among a cache of unofficial projects run by the SS and hidden by the Holocaust, he learned the secret of Zero Point.

Author: WIGGAN, RICHARD
Publisher: Hale

Author: Richard Wiggan
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd

From inside the dust jacket. On a February day in 1940 a German tanker slipped into an ice covered Norwegian fjord in an episode that even to this day is a source of controversy.

For the vessel was not just an ordinary tanker trying to reach Germany with a cargo of fuel. She was in fact the Altmark, supply ship to the Admiral Graf Spee and her "cargo" comprised almost 300 British merchant seamen taken prisoner from ships sunk by the pocket battleship while commerce raiding in the South Atlantic.

They were transferred to the tanker, which found herself alone in the South Atlantic after the Graf Spee was scuttled.

She reached Norway undetected and fled into the fjord to escape Royal Navy ships hunting her. A party from HMS Cossack rescued the prisoners to set the seal on what became known as "The Altmark Affair". The incident was made the subject of a propaganda exercise by both sides: the British made great play with the term "hell-ship" while the Germans flung back "pirate" to describe Cossack's action. The Norwegians, who had seen the Altmark snatched from under their very noses, were left smarting at this insult to their neutrality.

The author, after extensive research, has tried to separate the truth from the myth of this headline making event of the early days of the Second World War.

Author: HOUGH, RICHARD

Author: C.S Forester
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Mayflower Books Ltd

This book is a novel closely based on the actual naval battle. It tells the story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck into the Atlantic as a major threat to the convoys that sustained Britain in the early days of World War II and the Royal Navy's desperate pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck. A movie based on Forester's book, 'Sink the Bismarck!' starring Kenneth More was released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1960.

Drawing on work with Admiralty files and first-hand interviews, naval author Forester presents a fictionalised account (including imaginary conversation) of the sinking of the German battleship. Like his fiction, though a well-written, fast-paced account.

Author: C.S Forester
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Michael Joseph 1959

This book is a novel closely based on the actual naval battle. It tells the story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck into the Atlantic as a major threat to the convoys that sustained Britain in the early days of World War II and the Royal Navy's desperate pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck. A movie based on Forester's book, 'Sink the Bismarck!' starring Kenneth More was released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1960.

Drawing on work with Admiralty files and first-hand interviews, naval author Forester presents a fictionalised account (including imaginary conversation) of the sinking of the German battleship. Like his fiction, though a well-written, fast-paced account.

Author: FORESTER, C.S.

Author: Yvonne Carroll
Genre: Biography
Publisher: NPI Media Group

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Author: Yvonne Carroll
Genre: Biography
Publisher: The History Press

A Hymn for Eternity Yvonne Carroll has researched the life story of Wallace Hartley and has talked to a surviving relative. Here she tells his story and remembers this most British of heroes. Full description