Douglas L. Howard is academic chair of the English Department on the Ammerman Campus at Suffolk County Community College. He is the editor of Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television and a coeditor of The Essential Sopranos Reader.David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, currently runs the website TVWorth Watching.com, and serves as guest host for NPR’s Fresh Air. He is the author of The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific.
159 Ebooks par Paul Wright
Douglas L. Howard & David Bianculli: Television Finales
Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive …
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Paul Wright: Protecting Oracle Database 12c
Protecting Oracle Database 12c helps you solve the problem of maximizing the safety, resilience, and security of an Oracle database whilst preserving performance, availability, and integration despit …
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€56.99
Tara Herivel & Paul Wright: Prison Nation
Prison Nation is a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place–the world of America »s prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation …
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Tara Herivel & Paul Wright: Prison Nation
Prison Nation is a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place–the world of America »s prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation …
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Edward Hampshire: British Guided Missile Destroyers
In the years after World War II, new guided missile technology offered surface ships the chance to destroy airborne threats from afar, thereby preserving their role in naval warfare. This book examin …
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€13.38
Mark Stille: USN Fleet Destroyer vs IJN Fleet Submarine
Leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese naval strategists believed that a decisive fleet engagement would be fought against the United States Navy. Outnumbered by the USN, the Imperial Japanese Navy …
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€16.46
Paul Wright: Joshua and Judges
You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff’s Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what "Cliff" forgot was the greates …
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€9.00
Paul Wright: Shepherd’s Notes: Deuteronomy
You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff’s Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what "Cliff" forgot was the greates …
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€9.01
Paul Wright: Shepherd’s Notes: Genesis
You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff’s Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what "Cliff" forgot was the greates …
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€8.98
Paul Wright: Shepherd’s Notes: I & II Kings
You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff’s Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what "Cliff" forgot was the greates …
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€8.92
Paul Wright: Shepherd’s Notes: Jonah/Zephaniah
You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff’s Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what "Cliff" forgot was the greates …
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€8.98
Jamie Prenatt & Mark Stille: Axis Midget Submarines
During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Italy built approximately 2, 000 small, inherently stealthy, naval craft to perform special operations and conventional naval missions. Much more numerous and …
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€13.26
Angus Konstam: Gunboats of World War I
Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far f …
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Angus Konstam: Commonwealth Cruisers 1939 45
In the early 20th century Britain’s largest colonies established their own small naval presence, and their ships fought alongside the Royal Navy during World War I. These fleets were expanded during …
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€10.33
Ryan K. Noppen: Ottoman Navy Warships 1914 18
At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect ha …
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€13.30
Mark Stille: US Standard-type Battleships 1941 45 (1)
Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed investigation into the histories of each of the warsh …
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€12.34
Mark Stille: US Standard-type Battleships 1941 45 (2)
This book completes an authoritative two-part study on the Standard-type US battleships of World War II ships that were designed to fight a different type of war than the one that unfolded. It gives …
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€13.41
Brad Elward: US Cold War Aircraft Carriers
The Forrestal class (Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, and Independence) was the first completed class of US Navy supercarriers, so-named for their 25 percent size increase over the World War II-era carri …
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€13.25
Ryan K. Noppen: German Commerce Raiders 1914 18
This is the story of Germany’s commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest …
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€12.32
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War
When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia’s battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world’s major naval powers. Japan’s navy had been built u …
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€13.41
Mark Lardas: World War I Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers
In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air …
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€13.34
Ryan K. Noppen: Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914 18
At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas in …
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€13.30
Mark Stille: USN Battleship vs IJN Battleship
In the build-up to World War II both the United States and Japan believed their battleships would play a central role in battle, but after the Pacific War began in December 1941, the role of the batt …
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€16.38
Edward Hampshire: Soviet Cold War Guided Missile Cruisers
A fully illustrated study of the Soviet Navy’s biggest and most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War.Heavily armed and formidable, guided missile cruisers formed the core of the Soviet Navy du …
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€13.33
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Antisubmarine Escorts 1941-45
In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) went to war with a marginal anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. This was a lamentable state of affairs for a nation dependent upon imports to sustain it …
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€13.38
Ryan K. Noppen: French Battleships 1914 45
On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War …
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€13.40
Angus Konstam: European Ironclads 1860 75
From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck’s Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare.When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it chang …
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Angus Konstam: British Ironclads 1860 75
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world’s first seagoing ironclad – a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Brit …
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€12.34
Mark Lardas: Japan 1944 45
The air campaign that incinerated Japan’s cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war.As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards Tokyo Bay, the US Army Ai …
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€17.56
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Light Cruisers 1941 45
The Imperial Japanese Navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships. Of these, most were 5, 500-ton ships designed to act as destroyer squadron flagships. Thi …
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€13.31
Ken Ford: Run The Gauntlet
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramat …
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€16.38
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1914 18 (1)
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. The first half-dozen dreadnoughts were all improvements of the basic Dreadnought design, all carrying ten 12-inch guns. It was …
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€13.30
Dave McComb: US Destroyers 1942 45
Few if any 20th century warships were more justly acclaimed than the destroyers of the U.S. Navy’s Fletcher class. Admired as they were for their advanced and rakish design, it was their record as wo …
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Dave McComb: US Destroyers 1934 45
Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, indispensable in roles large and small from delivering the mail at sea to screening other vessels and, where larger sh …
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Gary Staff: German Battleships 1914 18 (1)
This volume covers the history of the Deutschland to Osfriesland classes of German battleships, beginning with the last of the pre-dreadnought battleships and explaining the revolutionary development …
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Angus Konstam: British Heavy Cruisers 1939 45
The idea of a heavy cruiser emerged in the aftermath of World War I, and was closely linked to the limits set by the inter-war Washington Naval Treaty. The pre-World War I concept of armoured cruiser …
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Jim Crossley: British Destroyers 1892 1918
This book recounts the history of the first destroyers of the Royal Navy, which revolutionized the way war was fought at sea with new armaments and a great improvement on earlier designs. Moreover, b …
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Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruisers 1941 45
Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed. Like the other vesse …
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€12.27
Angus Konstam: British Light Cruisers 1939 45
The light cruiser was a natural development of the sailing frigate a fast multi-purpose warship that could patrol the sea lanes, protect convoys and scout for enemy battle fleets. By the inter-war pe …
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€13.43
Ryan K. Noppen: US Navy Dreadnoughts 1914 45
The development of the US Navy’s dreadnought battleships was a pivotal part of America’s evolution into a true world power. By the beginning of World War I, the United States possessed the world’s th …
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€13.40
Mark Stille: US Heavy Cruisers 1941 45
Designed and produced under the regulations of the Washington Naval Treaty, the heavy cruisers of the Pensacola, Northampton, Portland, New Orleans and Wichita classes were exercises in compromise. W …
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€13.35
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1939 45 (1)
With the outbreak of World War II, Britain’s Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet ten of the 12 battleships were already over 20 years old, having ser …
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Angus Konstam: Bismarck 1941
A highly illustrated account of the hunt for the Bismarck.The break of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 was one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. It beg …
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€17.40
Mark Stille: Italian Battleships of World War II
Italy’s navy, the Regia Marina was the fourth-largest naval force in the world at the outbreak of World War II, and yet is often overlooked and largely discounted as ineffective. In general the fleet …
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€13.17
Brad Elward: Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers
The Nimitz class aircraft carrier is the ultimate symbol of the United States superpower status. A true behemoth, this is an unsurpassed weapons platform that overshadows all of its nearest rivals. A …
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€13.31
Mark Lardas: USS Lawrence vs HMS Detroit
The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on the inland lakes of North America: the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Carrying between 12 and 22 cann …
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Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919 45 (1)
This volume will detail the history, weapons and tactics of the Japanese destroyers built before the war. This includes the famous Fubuki class (called Special Type by the Japanese, which were, when …
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€13.20
Benjamin Lai: Chinese Battleship vs Japanese Cruiser
The 1894 95 war between China and Japan, known in the West as the First Sino-Japanese War, lasted only nine months, but its impact resonates today. The Chinese Beiyang (Northern) Fleet was led by her …
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€14.22
Mark Lardas: Russian Battleships and Cruisers of the Russo-Japanese War
This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russo-Japanese War. The focus is on the battleships, coastal defence warships, and cruisers of the Pacific …
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Gary Staff: German Battleships 1914 18 (2)
Supported by official documents, personal accounts, official drawings and specially commissioned artwork, this volume is an informative history of the key classes Kaiser, K nig and Bayern that formed …
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Mark Stille: US Heavy Cruisers 1943 75
This title follows on from a companion book covering the US heavy cruisers that were built prior to the war, together forming the definitive guide to the US’s heavy cruiser classes. Versatile warship …
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Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Battleships 1886 98
After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the c …
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€13.36
Ryan K. Noppen: Austro-Hungarian Battleships 1914 18
Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coast …
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€13.30
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919 45 (2)
During the Pacific War the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force. These ships were larger and, in most cases, better-equipped than their Allied counterparts …
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€13.31
Mark Stille: British Battlecruiser vs German Battlecruiser
The rival battlecruisers first clashed in January 1915 at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and although the battle was a British tactical victory with neither side losing any of its battlecruisers, the d …
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€16.37
Mark Stille: US Navy Light Cruisers 1941 45
During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, new cruisers were designed with increasingly heavy an …
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€12.34
Mark Stille: British Battleship vs Italian Battleship
During World War II’s battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navies planned to bring their battle fleets into play. At the centre of both of these fleets was a core of …
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€14.40
Angus Konstam: British Escort Carriers 1941 45
In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain’s maritime lifeline. Facing a shortag …
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€12.19
David Campbell & David Greentree: British Destroyer vs German Destroyer
The opening months of World War II saw Britain’s Royal Navy facing a resurgent German navy, the Kriegsmarine. Following the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in early April 1940, British and Germ …
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€14.37
Mark Stille: Italian Cruisers of World War II
The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) operated one of largest cruiser forces of World War II. As a signatory to the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, the Regia Marina immediately attempted to reinforce i …
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€13.36
Mark Lardas: Great Lakes Warships 1812 1815
When war broke out in 1812, neither the United States Navy nor the Royal Navy had more than a token force on the Great Lakes. However, once the shooting started, it sparked a ship-building arms race …
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Angus Konstam: American Privateers of the Revolutionary War
During the American War of Independence (1775 83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain’s overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only f …
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Mark Stille: US Navy Escort Carriers 1942 45
While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific an …
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Mark Stille: USN Cruiser vs IJN Cruiser
Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting. This thrilling duel presents the cruiser clashes during the battles for Gua …
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€16.31
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1914 18 (2)
In 1906, the Germans began building their own dreadnought fleet armed with larger guns, word of which soon reached the British Admiralty. This raised the spectre that the British dreadnought fleet wo …
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€13.20
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Battleships 1895 1908
The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United Sta …
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€12.36
Noppen Ryan K. Noppen: Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II
In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set …
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€12.35
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1890 1905
The Royal Navy’s battleships at the turn of the 20th century were the most powerful battlefleet in the world, and embodied one of the key periods in warship development – the development of the dread …
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€12.34
Mark Stille: Italian Destroyers of World War II
A new illustrated history and analysis of Italy’s World War II destroyers, a formidable foe for Allied forces attempting to attack the sea lanes between Italy and North Africa.The Italian Royal Navy …
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€12.34
Tara Herivel & Paul Wright: Prison Profiteers
“No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences” (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation). …
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Paul Newman & Nicholas Roy: Robotics
Papers from a flagship conference reflect the latest developments in the field, including work in such rapidly advancing areas as human-robot interaction and formal methods.Robotics: Science and Syst …
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€216.11
Claire Shewbridge & Deborah Nusche: OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Slovak Republic 2014
This book provides, from an international perspective, an independent analysis of major issues facing the educational evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible fut …
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Paul Wright: Dormire bene dopo i 50 anni
“Dormire bene dopo i 50: riscoprire la bellezza del riposo” è un libro che offre una panoramica completa dei disturbi del sonno più comuni tra le persone over 50, spiegando le cause, i sintomi e le p …
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Paul Wright: Sleeping well after the age of 50
“Sleeping Well After 50: Rediscovering the Beauty of Rest” is a book that provides a comprehensive overview of the most common sleep disorders among people over 50, explaining the causes, symptoms an …
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€7.99
Paul Wright: Dormir bien después de los 50
“Dormir bien después de los 50: Redescubrir la belleza del descanso” es un libro que ofrece una visión completa de los trastornos del sueño más comunes entre las personas mayores de 50 años, explican …
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€6.99
Paul Wright: Teach, Reflect, Doodle…
You don »t just read this book, you add to it, doodle in it, document your thoughts in it and make it your very own personal manual to becoming the best teacher you can be whilst hopefully keeping st …
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€11.53
Paul Wright: 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert i …
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€17.38
Paul Wright: 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert i …
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€17.30
Paul Wright: Heart of the Holy Land
Enjoy 40 Scripture-based reflections on locations in the Holy Land. Packed with beautiful photos, Scripture verses, and geographical knowledge to help you deepen your relationship with Christ.Whether …
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€18.07
Angus Konstam: British Ironclads 1860 75
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world’s first seagoing ironclad – a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Brit …
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€12.33
Angus Konstam: Bismarck 1941
A highly illustrated account of the hunt for the Bismarck.The break of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 was one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. It beg …
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€17.40
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919 45 (2)
During the Pacific War the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force. These ships were larger and, in most cases, better-equipped than their Allied counterparts …
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€13.34
Mark Stille: USN Cruiser vs IJN Cruiser
Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting. This thrilling duel presents the cruiser clashes during the battles for Gua …
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€16.42
Ken Ford: Run The Gauntlet
In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramat …
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Anglais
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€16.37
Angus Konstam: British Light Cruisers 1939 45
The light cruiser was a natural development of the sailing frigate a fast multi-purpose warship that could patrol the sea lanes, protect convoys and scout for enemy battle fleets. By the inter-war pe …
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Anglais
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€13.17
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Battleships 1886 98
After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the c …
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€13.35
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Battleships 1895 1908
The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United Sta …
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€12.34
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Armored Cruisers 1890 1933
A new history of the large, fast, and long-ranged armored cruisers of the US Navy, and the roles that these warships played in the fleet as America developed into a great naval power.At the dawn of t …
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€12.23
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Armored Cruisers 1890 1933
A new history of the large, fast, and long-ranged armored cruisers of the US Navy, and the roles that these warships played in the fleet as America developed into a great naval power.At the dawn of t …
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€12.23
Brian Lane Herder: British Pacific Fleet 1944 45
An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy’s primar …
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€16.46
Brian Lane Herder: British Pacific Fleet 1944 45
An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy’s primar …
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€16.46
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Protected Cruisers 1883 1918
Explores the history of the US Navy’s 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy.After the American Civil War, the powerful US Navy was allowed to d …
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€13.34
Brian Lane Herder: US Navy Protected Cruisers 1883 1918
Explores the history of the US Navy’s 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy.After the American Civil War, the powerful US Navy was allowed to d …
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€13.34
Angus Konstam: Warships in the War of the Pacific 1879 83
Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of South America’s War of the Pacific. In the late 19th century, a …
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€13.38
Angus Konstam: Warships in the War of the Pacific 1879 83
Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of South America’s War of the Pacific. In the late 19th century, a …
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€13.38
Mark Stille: Italian Destroyers of World War II
A new illustrated history and analysis of Italy’s World War II destroyers, a formidable foe for Allied forces attempting to attack the sea lanes between Italy and North Africa.The Italian Royal Navy …
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€12.32
Przemyslaw Budzbon: Polish Navy 1918 45
Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years.Newly independent Poland’s naval force was crea …
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€12.32
Przemyslaw Budzbon: Polish Navy 1918 45
Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years.Newly independent Poland’s naval force was crea …
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€12.28
Ryan K. Noppen: French Battleships 1914 45
On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War …
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€13.25
Mark Stille: USN Fleet Destroyer vs IJN Fleet Submarine
Leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese naval strategists believed that a decisive fleet engagement would be fought against the United States Navy. Outnumbered by the USN, the Imperial Japanese Navy …
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€16.37
Mark Lardas: Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943
With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II’s last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.The Battle …
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€13.30
Mark Lardas: Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943
With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II’s last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.The Battle …
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€13.30
Alexander Hill: Soviet Cruisers 1917 45
A history of the Soviet Navy’s cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II.The Soviet Navy of World War II boasted a cruiser fleet th …
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Alexander Hill: Soviet Cruisers 1917 45
A history of the Soviet Navy’s cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II.The Soviet Navy of World War II boasted a cruiser fleet th …
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€13.40
Jamie Prenatt & Mark Stille: Axis Midget Submarines
During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Italy built approximately 2, 000 small, inherently stealthy, naval craft to perform special operations and conventional naval missions. Much more numerous and …
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€13.25
Angus Konstam: Gunboats of World War I
Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far f …
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Angus Konstam: Commonwealth Cruisers 1939 45
In the early 20th century Britain’s largest colonies established their own small naval presence, and their ships fought alongside the Royal Navy during World War I. These fleets were expanded during …
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€10.15
Ryan K. Noppen: Ottoman Navy Warships 1914 18
At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect ha …
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€13.27
Mark Stille: US Standard-type Battleships 1941 45 (1)
Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed investigation into the histories of each of the warsh …
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Mark Stille: US Standard-type Battleships 1941 45 (2)
This book completes an authoritative two-part study on the Standard-type US battleships of World War II ships that were designed to fight a different type of war than the one that unfolded. It gives …
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Brad Elward: US Cold War Aircraft Carriers
The Forrestal class (Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, and Independence) was the first completed class of US Navy supercarriers, so-named for their 25 percent size increase over the World War II-era carri …
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€13.34
Ryan K. Noppen: German Commerce Raiders 1914 18
This is the story of Germany’s commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest …
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€12.31
Edward Hampshire: British Guided Missile Destroyers
In the years after World War II, new guided missile technology offered surface ships the chance to destroy airborne threats from afar, thereby preserving their role in naval warfare. This book examin …
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Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War
When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia’s battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world’s major naval powers. Japan’s navy had been built u …
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€13.26
Mark Stille: US Navy Light Cruisers 1941 45
During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, new cruisers were designed with increasingly heavy an …
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Mark Lardas: World War I Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers
In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air …
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Ryan K. Noppen: Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914 18
At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas in …
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€13.26
Mark Lardas: USS Lawrence vs HMS Detroit
The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on the inland lakes of North America: the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. Carrying between 12 and 22 cann …
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€16.49
Mark Stille: USN Battleship vs IJN Battleship
In the build-up to World War II both the United States and Japan believed their battleships would play a central role in battle, but after the Pacific War began in December 1941, the role of the batt …
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€16.32
Edward Hampshire: Soviet Cold War Guided Missile Cruisers
A fully illustrated study of the Soviet Navy’s biggest and most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War.Heavily armed and formidable, guided missile cruisers formed the core of the Soviet Navy du …
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€13.43
Mark Stille: US Navy Escort Carriers 1942 45
While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific an …
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€13.20
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Antisubmarine Escorts 1941-45
In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) went to war with a marginal anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. This was a lamentable state of affairs for a nation dependent upon imports to sustain it …
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€13.26
Mark Stille: Italian Cruisers of World War II
The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) operated one of largest cruiser forces of World War II. As a signatory to the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, the Regia Marina immediately attempted to reinforce i …
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€13.40
Angus Konstam: European Ironclads 1860 75
From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck’s Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare.When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it chang …
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€12.28
Benjamin Lai: Chinese Battleship vs Japanese Cruiser
The 1894 95 war between China and Japan, known in the West as the First Sino-Japanese War, lasted only nine months, but its impact resonates today. The Chinese Beiyang (Northern) Fleet was led by her …
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€14.37
David Campbell & David Greentree: British Destroyer vs German Destroyer
The opening months of World War II saw Britain’s Royal Navy facing a resurgent German navy, the Kriegsmarine. Following the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in early April 1940, British and Germ …
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€14.22
Mark Stille: British Battleship vs Italian Battleship
During World War II’s battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navies planned to bring their battle fleets into play. At the centre of both of these fleets was a core of …
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€14.35
Mark Lardas: Japan 1944 45
The air campaign that incinerated Japan’s cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war.As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards Tokyo Bay, the US Army Ai …
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€17.42
Mark Lardas: Russian Battleships and Cruisers of the Russo-Japanese War
This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russo-Japanese War. The focus is on the battleships, coastal defence warships, and cruisers of the Pacific …
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€12.32
Angus Konstam: British Escort Carriers 1941 45
In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain’s maritime lifeline. Facing a shortag …
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€12.24
Angus Konstam: American Privateers of the Revolutionary War
During the American War of Independence (1775 83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain’s overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only f …
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€12.22
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1890 1905
The Royal Navy’s battleships at the turn of the 20th century were the most powerful battlefleet in the world, and embodied one of the key periods in warship development – the development of the dread …
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€12.37
Mark Stille: Super-Battleships of World War II
An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II.Before the start of World War II, the battl …
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€13.17
Mark Stille: Super-Battleships of World War II
An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II.Before the start of World War II, the battl …
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€13.30
Angus Konstam: British Gunboats of Victoria’s Empire
A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British ‘gunboat diplomacy’, the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwi …
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Angus Konstam: British Gunboats of Victoria’s Empire
A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British ‘gunboat diplomacy’, the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwi …
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€12.25
Mark Stille: British Battlecruiser vs German Battlecruiser
The rival battlecruisers first clashed in January 1915 at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and although the battle was a British tactical victory with neither side losing any of its battlecruisers, the d …
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€16.46
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1914 18 (1)
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. The first half-dozen dreadnoughts were all improvements of the basic Dreadnought design, all carrying ten 12-inch guns. It was …
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€13.35
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1914 18 (2)
In 1906, the Germans began building their own dreadnought fleet armed with larger guns, word of which soon reached the British Admiralty. This raised the spectre that the British dreadnought fleet wo …
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Ryan K. Noppen: US Navy Dreadnoughts 1914 45
The development of the US Navy’s dreadnought battleships was a pivotal part of America’s evolution into a true world power. By the beginning of World War I, the United States possessed the world’s th …
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€13.38
Mark Stille: US Heavy Cruisers 1941 45
Designed and produced under the regulations of the Washington Naval Treaty, the heavy cruisers of the Pensacola, Northampton, Portland, New Orleans and Wichita classes were exercises in compromise. W …
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Mark Stille: US Heavy Cruisers 1943 75
This title follows on from a companion book covering the US heavy cruisers that were built prior to the war, together forming the definitive guide to the US’s heavy cruiser classes. Versatile warship …
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€13.20
Angus Konstam: British Battleships 1939 45 (1)
With the outbreak of World War II, Britain’s Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet ten of the 12 battleships were already over 20 years old, having ser …
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Jim Crossley: British Destroyers 1892 1918
This book recounts the history of the first destroyers of the Royal Navy, which revolutionized the way war was fought at sea with new armaments and a great improvement on earlier designs. Moreover, b …
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Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruisers 1941 45
Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed. Like the other vesse …
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€12.35
Dave McComb: US Destroyers 1934 45
Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, indispensable in roles large and small from delivering the mail at sea to screening other vessels and, where larger sh …
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Gary Staff: German Battleships 1914 18 (1)
This volume covers the history of the Deutschland to Osfriesland classes of German battlecruisers, beginning with the last of the pre-dreadnought battleships and explaining the revolutionary developm …
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€13.33
Dave McComb: US Destroyers 1942 45
Few if any 20th century warships were more justly acclaimed than the destroyers of the U.S. Navy’s Fletcher class. Admired as they were for their advanced and rakish design, it was their record as wo …
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€12.29
Gary Staff: German Battleships 1914 18 (2)
Supported by official documents, personal accounts, official drawings and specially commissioned artwork, this volume is an informative history of the key classes Kaiser, K nig and Bayern that formed …
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Brad Elward: Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers
The Nimitz class aircraft carrier is the ultimate symbol of the United States superpower status. A true behemoth, this is an unsurpassed weapons platform that overshadows all of its nearest rivals. A …
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€13.25
Mark Stille: Italian Battleships of World War II
Italy’s navy, the Regia Marina was the fourth-largest naval force in the world at the outbreak of World War II, and yet is often overlooked and largely discounted as ineffective. In general the fleet …
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Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Light Cruisers 1941 45
The Imperial Japanese Navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships. Of these, most were 5, 500-ton ships designed to act as destroyer squadron flagships. Thi …
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€13.36
Mark Lardas: Great Lakes Warships 1812 1815
When war broke out in 1812, neither the United States Navy nor the Royal Navy had more than a token force on the Great Lakes. However, once the shooting started, it sparked a ship-building arms race …
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Angus Konstam: British Heavy Cruisers 1939 45
The idea of a heavy cruiser emerged in the aftermath of World War I, and was closely linked to the limits set by the inter-war Washington Naval Treaty. The pre-World War I concept of armoured cruiser …
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€13.30
Ryan K. Noppen: Austro-Hungarian Battleships 1914 18
Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coast …
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€13.36
Mark Stille: Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919 45 (1)
This volume will detail the history, weapons and tactics of the Japanese destroyers built before the war. This includes the famous Fubuki class (called Special Type by the Japanese, which were, when …
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€13.30
Douglas C. Dildy & Ryan K. Noppen: German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II
This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy’s failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place.Th …
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€13.35
Douglas C. Dildy & Ryan K. Noppen: German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II
This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy’s failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place.Th …
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