Naval category: 2015 books
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
By the outbreak of World War II, Germany had done much to replace the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled following their surrender at the end of World War I. Forced to build anew, the Kriegsmarine possessed some of the most technically advanced warships in existence. Although the heavy units...
Rescue Warriors
The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Submarine proliferation in the post-Cold War environment has led to an exponential increase in the number of regional submarine operators and begs the question: Were these submarine purchases...
Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian
“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal
This rollicking...
If a Pirate I Must Be
The True Story of Black Bart, "King of the Caribbean Pirates"
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He drank tea instead of rum. He banned women and gambling on his ships. He never made his prisoners walk...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates
Fascinating Facts About the World’s Most Infamous Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
A view of pirate life-from the crow's nest ...
Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain...
by Peter Earle
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Peter Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods sailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the...
Pirates
The Complete History from 1300 BC to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Angus Konstam setssail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction. Pirates takes us into the depths of the pirate's dark world, examining the many colorful characters from Cretans and Vikings to French corsairs and the British rogues of the golden age of...
Captain Kidd
The Hunt for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The execution of Captain William Kidd on 23 May 1701 is one of the most controversial and revealing episodes in the long history of piracy. The legend that has grown up around Kidds final voyage, his concealed treasure and the dubious conduct of his trial, has made him into one of the most intriguing...
The Shining Sea
David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American navy, cemented...
Blackbeard’s Last Fight
Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers – licenced pirates – preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach – more...
by Mark G. Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by...
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
Bomb Alley
Falkland Islands 1982 – Aboard HMS Antrim at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean...