Maritime history books

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The Royal Navy, Volume 2: A History From the Earliest Times to 1900

The Royal Navy, Volume 2: A History From the Earliest...
Author: William Laird Clowes ISBN: 9781861760111 Format: Paperback	$86.99
One hundred years after its first printing, Sir William Clowes's superb seven volume study still retains its position... Read More >>

Grown Gray In War: The Len Maffioli Story

Grown Gray In War: The Len Maffioli Story
Author: Bruce Norton, USMC (Ret.) , Estate of Len Maffioli ISBN: 9781557506436 Format: Hardback	$92.27
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The Diary of a Maritimer, 1816-1901: Life and Times of Joseph Salter

The Diary of a Maritimer, 1816-1901: Life and Times...
Author: Nancy Redmayne Ross ISBN: 9780969588597 Format: Paperback	$131.97
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Ships' Bilge Pumps: A History of Their Development, 1500-1900

Ships' Bilge Pumps: A History of Their Development,...
Author: Thomas J. Oertling ISBN: 9780890967225 Format: Paperback	$47.39
All wooden ships leak and maritime historical literature is filled with horrific descriptions of being aboard a... Read More >>

To California by Sea: Maritime History of the California Gold Rush

To California by Sea: Maritime History of the California...
Author: James Delgado ISBN: 9781570031533 Format: Paperback	$45.10
In 1848, more than a thousand ships set sail for San Francisco, filled with eager fortune hunters. James P. Delgado... Read More >>

The Logboats of Scotland

The Logboats of Scotland
Author: Robert J.C. Mowat ISBN: 9781900188111 Format: Paperback	$184.80
This study of Scottish logboats dugouts and related items like paddles and oars reveals a long history extending... Read More >>

Narvik Battles in the Fjords

Narvik Battles in the Fjords
Author: Peter Dickens ISBN: 9781557507440 Format: Hardback	$92.27
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The Unsinkable Fleet: The Politics of U.S. Navy Expansion in World War II

The Unsinkable Fleet: The Politics of U.S. Navy Expansion...
Author: Joel R. Davidson ISBN: 9781557501561 Format: Hardback	$86.99
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The Bridge at Dong Ha

The Bridge at Dong Ha
Author: Estate of John G. Miller ISBN: 9781557505873 Format: Paperback	$42.99
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How ""Natives"" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example

How ""Natives"" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example...
Author: Marshall Sahlins ISBN: 9780226733692 Format: Paperback	$61.95
This volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The... Read More >>

The Royal Navy, Volume 1: A History From the Earliest Times to 1900

The Royal Navy, Volume 1: A History From the Earliest...
Author: William Laird Clowes ISBN: 9781861760104 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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Commandos from the Sea: Soviet Naval Spetsnaz in World War II

Commandos from the Sea: Soviet Naval Spetsnaz in World...
Author: Yuriy Fedorovich Strekhnin , James F. Gebhardt ISBN: 9781557508324 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas:A History Based on Underwate: A History Based on Underwater Archaeology

Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas:A History Based...
Author: George Bass ISBN: 9780500278925 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Potemkin Mutiny

The Potemkin Mutiny
Author: Richard Hough ISBN: 9781557503701 Format: Paperback	$36.83
Hailed as an important contribution both to history and to sea literature when first published in 1961, Richard... Read More >>

One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990

One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990...
Author: George W. Baer ISBN: 9780804727945 Format: Paperback	$86.99
This history of the modern US Navy explains how the Navy defined its purpose in the century after 1890. Read More >>

Trawling: The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery

Trawling: The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery...
Author: Robb Robinson (Maritime Historical Studies Centre, The University of Hull (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9780859894807 Format: Hardback	$264.00
A distinct branch of the multi-faceted fishing industry, trawling dates back at least to the 1370s when attempts... Read More >>

Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920

Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the...
Author: Margaret S. Creighton , Lisa Norling ISBN: 9780801851605 Format: Paperback	$75.99
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Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942

Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast,...
Author: Homer H Hickam, Jr. ISBN: 9781557503626 Format: Paperback	$52.99
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the... Read More >>

Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp

Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp
Author: Phillip Playford ISBN: 9781875560738 Format: Hardback	$106.92
The Zuytdorp, one of the great ships of the Dutch East India Company, disappeared without a trace after leaving... Read More >>

Fighting Commodores: Convoy Commanders in the Second World War

Fighting Commodores: Convoy Commanders in the Second...
Author: Alan Burn ISBN: 9780850525045 Format: Hardback	$57.99
As Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior... Read More >>

Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality

Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality...
Author: David Cordingly ISBN: 9780349113142 Format: Paperback	$26.99
In this revealing and highly original study David Cordingly sets out to discover the truth behind the piracy myth,... Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War
Author: Donald H. Dyal , Brian B. Carpenter ISBN: 9780313288524 Format: Hardback	$120.00
Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war.... Read More >>

Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes in World War II

Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes...
Author: Robert Gannon ISBN: 9780271036267 Format: Paperback	$67.99
Shortly after World War II began, the US Navy realised their torpedo programme was a failure. This book, based on... Read More >>

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
Author: Sylvia Earle Earle ISBN: 9780449910658 Format: Paperback	$42.24
Internationally known as the ambassador-at-large to the world's oceans, Sylvia Earle is the former chief scientist... Read More >>

Naval Power in the Twentieth Century

Naval Power in the Twentieth Century
Author: N.A.M. Rodger ISBN: 9780333644133 Format: Hardback	$448.77
In this book historians and naval officers from Britain, the United States and other countries study the use of... Read More >>

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