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  • THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    A study and reassessment of the major World War II battle in the South Atlantic between the British and German navies. The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles of...

    $169.00

  • A SHIP FOR THE KING
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    The thrilling maritime adventures of Kit Faulkner begin in a new series set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.   Bristol, England, 1618. Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever at the age of sixteen when two gentlemen, one a former privateer, Sir Henry Mainwaring, spot his potential and he is taken aboard their merchant ship to be traine...

    $119.00

  • THE KING'S CHAMELEON
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    With England in the throes of civil war, Captain Kit Faulkner’s thrilling maritime adventures cannot escape the course of history.   England, 1659. Captain Kit Faulkner’s house is prospering; his eldest son, Nathaniel, has recently returned from a profitable trip to Jamaica in the good ship Faithful, and his daughter, Hannah, has made a suitable match with a young sailor. But t...

    $149.00

  • ARCTIC CONVOYS, 1941–1945
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    The story of Allied merchant ships and crews who braved the frigid far north to extend a lifeline to Russia, filled with “sheer heroism and brazen drama” (Literary Review).   During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited...

    $229.00

  • COLD WAR COMMAND
    DAN CONLEY / RICHARD WOODMAN
    A British nuclear submariner sheds critical light on the Royal Navy's Cold War operations in this revealing military memoir. The role played by the Royal Navy's submarines throughout the Cold War remains largely shrouded in secrecy. In Cold War Command, Captain Dan Conley, RN (Ret.), offers an insider's look at commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines. As captain of the HMS ...

    $369.00

  • THE SEA WARRIORS
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    "A marvelous book. . . . shows where Patrick O'Brian and C.S Forester got all their stuff from, but is more exciting than either." — Times Literary Supplement   The Sea Warriors is the true story of the great frigate captains of the Nelsonic Royal Navy who spent long and arduous years away from their homes fighting for king and country, to win and hold control of the seas. Rich...

    $229.00

  • THE REAL CRUEL SEA
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    The renowned maritime historian's compelling study of the vital role played by merchant seamen during WWII in the Battle of the Atlantic. For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of merchant ships carrying food and supplies from America to feed the country and keep the war effort going. On top of that, t...

    $149.00

  • FOR KING OR COMMONWEALTH
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    As the civil war rages on in England, exiled captain Kit Faulkner finds his loyalties torn between family, friends, and nation.   1649. England has been torn asunder by a civil war that has pitted Parliamentarians against Royalists. Cpt. Kit Faulkner, bound to the Royalist cause, has been living in exile for the past four years. Faulkner must now support himself with the tiny r...

    $129.00