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  • THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM FOR SLAVES ESCAPING IN BRITISH SHIPS
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    THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM FOR SLAVES ESCAPING IN BRITISH SHIPS
    THEODORE CORBETT
    Although Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward freedom. From Britain came the Great Awakening, the advent of evangelism in America, which would provide slaves with hope for future freedom. In 1775, black emancipation commenced in Chesapeake Bay with Lord Dunmore’s procl...

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  • ALLIED CONVOYS TO NORTHERN RUSSIA, 1941–1945
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    ALLIED CONVOYS TO NORTHERN RUSSIA, 1941–1945
    WILLIAM SMITH
    While the experiences of the men and ships who sailed in the Allied convoys to North Russia between August 1941 and May 1945 have been fully documented, the wider political, diplomatic and military factors which determined the campaign are less well known. The principal actors Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin each had their own agendas and expectations, influenced by advisers an...

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  • MANXMEN AT SEA IN THE AGE OF NELSON, 1760-1815
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    MANXMEN AT SEA IN THE AGE OF NELSON, 1760-1815
    MATTHEW RICHARDSON
    The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that they were in great demand for the latter in time of war. As smugglers, or as privateers they made their living on the waves, i...

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  • THE MILLENNIUM MARITIME TRADE REVOLUTION, 700–1700
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    THE MILLENNIUM MARITIME TRADE REVOLUTION, 700–1700
    NICK COLLINS
    Following the series’ first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World, this book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world’s wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress. The story begins where the first book ends, when following Roman Empire collapse, 7th-century European maritime trade almost ceased, cre...

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  • SEA WOLVES
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    SEA WOLVES
    TONY MATTHEWS
    "Aided by the bitter memories of the few survivors, Matthews devotes most detail to the victims, while noting that only one of his four villains could truly be said to have been brought to justice." —HistoryNet From the heart-rending account of the sinking of the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 — the worst maritime disaster in world history — through to a variety of other...

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  • HMS TURBULENT
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    HMS TURBULENT
    STEPHEN WYNN
    HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping. Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down in history for the attack on the Italian merchant vessel the Nino Bixio, which at...

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  • FORMIDABLE
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    FORMIDABLE
    TERRY CROWDY
    HMS Formidable was a British aircraft carrier during the Second World War. One of four Illustrious-class carriers, Formidable was an armored carrier, able to withstand air attacks, guarding its precious aircraft hangar with an armor-plated flight-deck. As well as its squadrons of fighters and torpedo bombers, Formidable was armed with sixteen 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns, mounted...

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  • ALISTAIR MACLEAN'S WAR
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    ALISTAIR MACLEAN'S WAR
    MARK SIMMONS
    It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories. In 1941, he was called up after volunteering for the Royal Navy and served as Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. For the majority of his service, he was on HMS Royalist, a modified Dido-class light cruiser, seeing action in the Arctic, and operations against th...

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  • A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 1939-1945
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    A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 1939-1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theater of the conflict. That is why this wide-ranging, highly illustrated history of amphibious warfare 1939–1945 by Simon and Jonathan Forty is of such value. Their book gives graphic accounts of...

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  • A MARITIME HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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    A MARITIME HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
    THEODORE CORBETT
    While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive as the familiar ship of the line confrontations. It is also history ...

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  • CHURCHILL'S ATLANTIC CONVOYS
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    CHURCHILL'S ATLANTIC CONVOYS
    WILLIAM SMITH
    Within hours of the outbreak of the Second World War, Winston Churchill took up office as First Lord of the Admiralty. The same day the liner Athenia was torpedoed in the Atlantic in the first U-boat attack of the war. Churchill quickly recognized Britain’s survival depended on countering the U-boat threat and the strategic importance of protecting Allied merchant shipping with...

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  • NAVAL BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    NAVAL BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    LEO MARRIOTT
    The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott’s highly illustrated two-volume account of the struggle sets naval actions in the wider strategic context as well as giving ...

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  • RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
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    RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial to the nation’s survival using their speed and expertise to evade Nazi warships, r...

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  • CROMWELL'S WARS AT SEA
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    CROMWELL'S WARS AT SEA
    JOHN BARRATT
    The 200 years that separate the navy of Drake's day from that of Nelson were critical for the development of Britain's sea power, and the decade of the Commonwealth, of Cromwell's rule, is one of the turning points in the story. In the aftermath of a disastrous civil war and the execution of Charles I, the navy fought to defend the frail republic against the rivalry and hostili...

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  • THE NORWEGIAN MERCHANT FLEET IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    THE NORWEGIAN MERCHANT FLEET IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    KENNETH L PRIVRATSKY
    At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain, desperately short of merchant shipping, turned to the Norwegians who agreed to loan several hundred of its modern cargo and tanker ships. In early 1940 when Hitler invaded Norway, both the British and Germans rushed to seize the remainder of the fleet. King Haakon VII and his government, now fleeing from Nazi occupation, refused...

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  • SURVIVORS OF ENEMY ACTION
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    SURVIVORS OF ENEMY ACTION
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The war years 1939 – 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy. The figures speak for themselves. With 2,535 ships sunk and 36,749 merchant seamen lost, the proportional casualty rate was higher than any branch of the Armed Forces except for Bomber Command. The danger to the lightly armed merchant ships came from enemy air attacks, surface war...

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