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  • Naval Warfare 1914–1918

    From Coronel to the Atlantic and Zeebrugge

    by Tim Benbow ...
    Series series History of WWI
    The struggle for naval supremacy and the naval arms race inspired by HMS Dreadnought may have captured the headlines, but the opening stages of the naval war were dominated by the threat from German cruisers stationed outside European waters, until they were hunted down and sunk by the Royal Navy, notably at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.Germany switched its focus to the U-boat, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dimensions of Counter-insurgency

    Applying Experience to Practice

    Edited by Tim Benbow, Rod Thornton ...
    The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • British Naval Aviation

    The First 100 Years

    Edited by Tim Benbow ...
    Series series Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
    In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its rapid expansion and evolution radically altered the nature of maritime power and naval strategy. Drawing on much new historical research, the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Western Front 1917–1918

    From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice

    by Professor Andrew Wiest ...
    Series series History of WWI
    The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.Following the climactic battles ... Read more

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  • The Western Front 1914–1916

    From the Schlieffen Plan to Verdun and the Somme

    by Professor Michael S Neiberg ...
    Series series History of WWI
    The Western Front, running from the Belgian coast in the north to the Swiss border in the south, was to prove the decisive battlefront of World War I. It was where the great powers of Germany, France and the British Empire concentrated the bulk of their military might, and it was where many believed the war would be settled before Christmas 1914.The German General Staff realised the dangers of ... Read more

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  • All Hands Down

    The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion

    by Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler ...
    A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years—what really happened to the USS Scorpion?May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode into—that the Soviets planned revenge for the mysterious sinking of a Russian sub two months before…or that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • No Place to Hide

    Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

    by Glenn Greenwald ...
    A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden.In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Fatal Shore

    The epic of Australia's founding

    by Robert Hughes ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today."One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times**Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Good Spy

    The Life and Death of Robert Ames

    by Kai Bird ...
    The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Voyagers of the Titanic

    Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From

    by Richard Davenport-Hines ...
    "The story of the Titanic has been told many times; this one takes a sociological perspective, with the confident, graceful prose of fine fiction." — Wall Street JournalIt has been over one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The First Family Detail

    Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

    by Ronald Kessler ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—SlateAs in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Run The Gauntlet

    The Channel Dash 1942

    by Ken Ford ...
    Series Book 28 - Raid
    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 dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy could throw at them. In a dramatic running fight, the ships ... Read more

    $15.09 USD