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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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  • JUSTICE, CRIME, AND ETHICS
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    JUSTICE, CRIME, AND ETHICS
    MICHAEL C. BRASWELL / BRADLEY D. EDWARDS / BELINDA R. MCCARTHY / BERNARD J. MCCARTHY
    Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. This 11th edition continues to deliver a broad scope of topics, focusing on law enforcement, legal practice, sentencing, corrections, research, crime control policy, and philosophica...

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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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  • THE DECOYS
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    THE DECOYS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North Africa.To convey 70,000 troops and their equipment required 600 merchant ships crossing the U-boat infested North Atlantic. The need for their protection meant withdrawing escorts from the routine convoys. Amongst those left without adequate defence were RB 1 and SC 107, both ...

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  • THE WOLF PACKS GATHER
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    THE WOLF PACKS GATHER
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdads secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn of 1940. Admiral Donetz, aware of the movements of the Allied convoys, marshaled as ...

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  • WAR UNDER THE RED ENSIGN, 1914–1918
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    WAR UNDER THE RED ENSIGN, 1914–1918
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    he Kaisers determination to starve Britain into surrender and the development of his Navy and the U-boats in particular meant that Britains merchant navy was in the front line throughout the Great War.This book charts the progress of the war at sea which began with the sinking of the oil tanker San Wilfrido off Cuxhaven only eight hours after the official declaration of war. Th...

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  • ROYAL NAVY VERSUS THE SLAVE TRADERS
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    ROYAL NAVY VERSUS THE SLAVE TRADERS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The acclaimed naval historian sheds significant light on the Royal Navy's role in fighting the African slave trade through years of bitter battle at sea. On March 16th, 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The following year, the Royal Navy's West African Squadron was formed for the purpose of stopping and searching ships at sea suspected of...

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  • WAR OF THE U-BOATS
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    WAR OF THE U-BOATS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    From the earliest days of the Second World War, Hitlers U-Boats were unleashed with the mission of sinking as much Allied merchant tonnage as possible. From the sinking of the Glasgow-based ship Olivegrove by U-23, to the end of hostilities six years later officers and seamen of the Merchant Marine played a key role in winning the war by their blatant disregard of the risks fro...

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  • U-BOATS BEYOND BISCAY
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    U-BOATS BEYOND BISCAY
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    On the outbreak of war in 1939 Admiral Donitzs U-boat flotillas consisted of some thirty U-boats fully operational, with only six to eight at sea at any one time. Their activities were restricted mainly to the North Sea and British coastal waters. When France fell in the summer of 1940, the ports in the Bay of Biscay gave direct access to the Atlantic, and the ability to extend...

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  • CHURCHILL'S THIN GREY LINE
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    CHURCHILL'S THIN GREY LINE
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The naval historian and retired merchant navy captain recounts the contributions of Britain’s civilian ships during WWII in this “cracking read” (The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem).   The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of the Royal Navy, the army, or the Royal Air Force. They were British merchant seamen on the transatlantic passenger liner SS Athe...

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  • FROM HUNTER TO HUNTED
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    FROM HUNTER TO HUNTED
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The author of Churchill’s Thin Grey Line shares case histories from World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic featuring the German U-boat. In the early stages of World War II, Donitz’s U-boats generally adhered to Prize rules, surfacing before attacking and making every effort to preserve the lives of their victims’ crews. But, with the arming of merchantmen and greater risk of dam...

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  • CONVOY WILL SCATTER
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    CONVOY WILL SCATTER
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    A naval historian reveals the full story of the HMS Jervis Bay and the merchant ships that valiantly saved lives during the WWII Battle of the Atlantic. On November 5th, 1940, the thirty-eight merchant ships of Convoy HX84 were making their way across the North Atlantic, escorted by the armed cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. In mid-ocean, they were attacked by the German pocket battlesh...

    $119.00

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  • THE DECOYS
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    THE DECOYS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North Africa.To convey 70,000 troops and their equipment required 600 merchant ships crossing the U-boat infested North Atlantic. The need for their protection meant withdrawing escorts from the routine convoys. Amongst those left without adequate defence were RB 1 and SC 107, both ...

    $279.00

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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...

    $255.75

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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...

    $255.99

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  • DÖNITZ AND THE WOLF PACKS
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    DÖNITZ AND THE WOLF PACKS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    A history of the pivotal World War II campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic. On 17 September 1942 Admiral Karl Donitz, C-in-C U-boats, issued the following directive: To all Commanders—'All attempts to rescue members of ships sunk, therefore also fishing out swimmers and putting them into lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, handing out provisions and water, have to cease. Re...

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  • BEWARE RAIDERS!
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    BEWARE RAIDERS!
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    A British naval historian recounts the victories and defeats of two of the most infamous German Navy vessels during World War II.   Bernard Edwards's Beware Raiders! tells the fascinating story of two German ships and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the eight-inch gun cruiser Admiral Hipper—named for World War I's German fleet Admiral Fran...

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  • JAPANS BLITZKRIEG
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    JAPANS BLITZKRIEG
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    Early on the morning of 7 December 1941, 360 Japanese carrier-borne aircraft made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, and laid waste to the American Far East Fleet. They sank four battleships, crippled three cruisers and three destroyers, and seriously damaged two other battleships. One hundred and sixty-four planes were destroyed and 2,403 servicemen and ci...

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  • DEATH IN THE DOLDRUMS
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    DEATH IN THE DOLDRUMS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dnitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of the Suez Canal, was a vital Allied supply route. Two submarines in particular (U-6...

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  • THE TWILIGHT OF THE U-BOATS
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    THE TWILIGHT OF THE U-BOATS
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    "A gripping narrative" of the German submarines that nearly changed the outcome of World War II from the author of Dönitz and the Wolf Packs ( Naval Review). In essence, this is the story of U-223, commanded by Karl-Jurgen Wächter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in Mar...

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  • THE ROAD TO RUSSIA
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    THE ROAD TO RUSSIA
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The renowned naval historian chronicles three WWII convoy missions to Russia through dangerous Arctic waters and relentless Luftwaffe attacks. During the Summer of 1942 Britain and America jointly agreed to supply desperately needed arms to Soviet Russia. Determined to stop this potentially decisive operation, the Germans relentlessly hounded the Allied convoys from the sky. An...

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  • CONVOY WILL SCATTER
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    CONVOY WILL SCATTER
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    A naval historian reveals the full story of the HMS Jervis Bay and the merchant ships that valiantly saved lives during the WWII Battle of the Atlantic. On November 5th, 1940, the thirty-eight merchant ships of Convoy HX84 were making their way across the North Atlantic, escorted by the armed cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. In mid-ocean, they were attacked by the German pocket battlesh...

    $119.00

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  • THE QUIET HEROES
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    THE QUIET HEROES
    BERNARD EDWARDS
    The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson liner Athenia was sunk without warning by a German U-boat off the west coast of Ireland. From that moment onwards, British merch...

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