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  • A WIND FROM THE NORTH
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    A WIND FROM THE NORTH
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The captivating biography of Prince Henry of Portugal, the navigator and explorer who helped usher in the Age of Discovery.   Before Columbus, Vespucci, and Sir Francis Drake, there was Henry the Navigator. Pirate hunter, intrepid explorer, and ship designer, the Portuguese prince was one of the great innovators who pioneered the Age of Discovery. In an effort to locate the myt...

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  • THE WIND OFF THE ISLAND
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    THE WIND OFF THE ISLAND
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The bestselling author of The Journeying Moon explores the history and culture of Sicily in this colorful travel memoir. In his memoir The Journeying Moon, historian Ernle Bradford recounts the call to adventure that brought him and his wife, Janet, to a life on the sea. Continuing their adventures aboard the Mother Goose, Bradford and Janet now voyage around the island of Sici...

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  • NELSON
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    NELSON
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    A gripping biography of Admiral Nelson, Napoleonic War hero and one of Britain's greatest naval tacticians. In the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson sent the signal from his flagship HMS  Victory, "England expects that every man will do his duty." His defeat of the French that day in 1805 was a decisive turning point in the Napoleonic Wars, establishing British c...

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  • THERMOPYLAE
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    THERMOPYLAE
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    An account of the ancient battle between Persia and the alliance of Greek city-states, including the legendary "300 Spartans." In 480 BCE, Persian king Xerxes led a massive invasion of Greece. A critical point in this invasion was the battle for the pass at Thermopylae—"Hot Gates" in Greek. Xerxes had amassed one of the largest armies yet known to man, while Leonidas's troops, ...

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  • THE GREAT SIEGE, MALTA 1565
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    THE GREAT SIEGE, MALTA 1565
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between the...

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  • THE JOURNEYING MOON
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    THE JOURNEYING MOON
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    A memoir of life as an adventurer and sailor in the Mediterranean, by the noted naval historian.   Ernle Bradford spent his twenty-first birthday in Egypt, serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. It was there that he came across the profoundly affecting words of Anton Chekhov: "Life does not come again; if you have not lived during the days that were given to you, once o...

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  • JULIUS CAESAR
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    JULIUS CAESAR
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The epic life story of the Roman statesman, military commander, and dictator, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae.   Born to Roman aristocracy in 100 BC, Julius Caesar became one of the most powerful men in history. He was a military genius, a fierce politician, and a brilliant writer and orator. When he formed an alliance with Pompey and Crassus, the triumvirate of offi...

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  • HANNIBAL
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    HANNIBAL
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The life of the great military commander of ancient Carthage from the bestselling author of Thermopylae and Gibraltar.   Born in Carthage in 247 BC, Hannibal Barca is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Following the example set by his father, Hamilcar, he dedicated his life to the defeat of Rome. At the outbreak of the Second Punic War, Hannibal fam...

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  • GIBRALTAR
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    GIBRALTAR
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    Since ships first set sail in the Mediterranean, The Rock has been the gate of Fortress Europe. In ancient times, it was known as one of the Pillars of Hercules, and a glance at its formidable mass suggests that it may well have been created by the gods. Sought after by every nation with territorial ambitions in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Gibraltar was possessed by the Arabs, th...

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  • DRAKE
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    DRAKE
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The authoritative biography of British explorer Sir Francis Drake, from the bestselling author of The Great Siege.   Long considered one of the great heroes of British history, Sir Francis Drake was a brilliant navigator, intrepid explorer, and fearsome warrior in Queen Elizabeth's Royal Navy. He was also a pirate and profiteer who made a small fortune trading slaves. In this c...

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  • CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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    CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The "outstanding" biography of the Italian navigator and explorer from the bestselling author of The Great Siege ( The New York Times) . Christopher Columbus, credited with discovering America in 1492, was a great explorer who forever changed the world—but his iconic image obscures a far more complex and fascinating life story. Born Cristoforo Colombo, the son of a weaver from ...

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  • THE MIGHTY HOOD
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    THE MIGHTY HOOD
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The story of the HMS  Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal. When it was launched in 1918, the HMS  Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy. As a battle cruiser, "The Mighty Hood" was fast enough to evade enemy cruiser ships and powerful enough to destroy them. But for all the  Hood's might, it had one fatal flaw: arm...

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  • PAUL THE TRAVELLER
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    PAUL THE TRAVELLER
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae. Paul, born into Asia Minor's Jewish aristocracy and a passionate student of scripture, was part of the crowd that killed Stephen, a deacon regarded as the first Christian martyr. But on the road to Damascus, Paul experienced a mira...

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  • THE GREAT SHIP
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    THE GREAT SHIP
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood.   During its reign from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, the battleship was the most powerful weapon of war known to man. Strategically, it determined a war's outcome. Tactically, it dominated every sea battle. But at the Battle of Taranto in 1940 and th...

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  • THE GREAT BETRAYAL
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    THE GREAT BETRAYAL
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae . At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center of art, culture, and commerce that had commanded trading routes between Asia, Russ...

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  • THE SHIELD AND THE SWORD
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    THE SHIELD AND THE SWORD
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights Hospitaller of Saint John dedicated themselves to defending the poor and sick. First formed in Jerusalem during the Crusades of the eleventh century, the Order of Saint John grew in ...

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  • HANNIBAL
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    HANNIBAL
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The life of the great military commander of ancient Carthage from the bestselling author of Thermopylae and Gibraltar.   Born in Carthage in 247 BC, Hannibal Barca is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Following the example set by his father, Hamilcar, he dedicated his life to the defeat of Rome. At the outbreak of the Second Punic War, Hannibal fam...

    $229.00

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  • PAUL THE TRAVELLER
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    PAUL THE TRAVELLER
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae. Paul, born into Asia Minor’s Jewish aristocracy and a passionate student of scripture, was part of the crowd that killed Stephen, a deacon regarded as the first Christian martyr. But on the road to Damascus, Paul experienced a mira...

    $229.00

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  • NELSON
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    NELSON
    ERNLE BRADFORD
    A gripping biography of Admiral Nelson, Napoleonic War hero and one of Britain’s greatest naval tacticians. In the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson sent the signal from his flagship HMS Victory, “England expects that every man will do his duty.” His defeat of the French that day in 1805 was a decisive turning point in the Napoleonic Wars, establishing British co...

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