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Author : Charles Morgan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000009269715
Morgan's criticism of the British Navy in this novel led to the book's limited distribution.
Author : Henry Beam Piper
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322443604
The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by accident." But Gladys Fleming had her doubts. Enough at any rate to engage Colonel Jefferson Davis Rand--better known just as Jeff--private detective and a pistol-collector himself, to catalogue, appraise, and negotiate the sale of her late husband's collection.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393037037
Capt. Aubrey and his friend Maturin sail to the Indian Ocean to save the British merchant fleet from the French.
Author : Nicholas Blake,Richard Lawrence
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811732754
The fictional exploits of sailors in the Royal Navy have thrilled readers around the world. This title covers various aspects of the Royal Navy including the workings of the admiralty, the designs and building of ships, life on board, food and drink, discipline, seamanship, merchant fleets, and opposing navies.
Author : Laura Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419055
The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.
Author : Bruce Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819252
The career of the legendary British battlecruiser is vividly recounted from its commissioning to its tragic end in this naval history. The HMS Hood was the glory of the Royal Navy. In The End of Glory, historian Bruce Taylor combines in-depth research and thrilling narrative to tell its story. For twenty years Hood symbolized the Royal Navy during the twilight years of the British Empire. Yet in 1941, it was destroyed in seconds by the battleship Bismarck, a catastrophe that shattered the morale the British public. Through official documents as well as the personal accounts and reminiscences of more than 150 crewmen, this volume offers a vivid portrait of this naval icon. An insider’s view of a warship in peace and war, The End of Glory not only paints an intimate picture of everyday life but deals with controversial issues such as the Invergordon mutiny, escapades ashore and afloat, the Christmas mutiny of 1940 and the terrible conditions onboard in war. This coverage, based on so many original sources, makes for a truly compelling story that neither historian, enthusiast nor general reader will find easy to put down.
Author : Bruce Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783469802
“A wonderfully illustrated biography” of one of history’s greatest warships whose sinking “signaled the end of the surety that Britannia ruled the waves” (War History Online). Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the HMS Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and color illustrations, is the story of her life, her work and her people from keel-laying on the Clyde in 1916 to destruction at the hands of the Bismarck in 1941. Among the eyecatching strengths of the book is a unique gallery of photos, including stills from a recently discovered piece of color footage of the ship, plus a spectacular set of computer-generated images of both the exterior and interior by the world’s leading exponent of the art—a man who worked with the film director James Cameron (of Titanic fame). A wealth of new information on Hood’s structure and operation make it essential reading for the enthusiast, modeler and historian alike. Hugely successful from its first publication, this is the third printing of the ultimate book on the ultimate ship of the pre-war era. “The most comprehensive study of a modern warship ever undertaken.”—Warship World
Author : Georgina Harding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408869826
A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding 'Georgina Harding's novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose' Guardian The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young photographer takes the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear... He flees to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom – and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried deep in his past. The first in Harding's cycle of acclaimed novels on themes of witness, memory and silence, The Gun Room is beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating.
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433069057465
Author : Charles Morgan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547224952
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Gunroom" by Charles Morgan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMSFI37$000000755$$$Z
Author : Kerr Norman Kerr
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426913686
David McAlpine, a gifted Scottish gunsmith is lured into the service of Lord Montdrago, a mysterious international banker and experienced hunter who is impressed with David's ability to sculpt beautiful and reliable guns from a block of steel. After David settles into the well-equipped gunroom inside Montdrago's magnificent country estate on the outskirts of London, he soon discovers a labyrinth of secret passages and concealed observation spy holes within the mansion's thick walls a finding that eventually leads him into the heart of darkness in Africa and a dangerous life of espionage, murder, and the love of a beautiful Russian woman. As David attempts to prevail against the powerful forces that are intent on destroying him, he must learn to rely on innate violence and brutal savagery instincts in order to survive. Meanwhile, David and Bernie Cohen, an ex-Israeli army doctor who is now Montdrago's personal physician, develop a lasting friendship and together, they plunge headfirst into a world comprised of conspiracy, government intelligence, and evil and soon discover there may be only one way out of the secret maze.
Author : John D. Byrn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000341775
This collection of naval court martial transcripts and related documents from the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars contributes not only to our understanding of military jurisprudence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries but also to our knowledge of Georgian and Regency criminal law in general. Each chapter presents transcripts relating to different groups of offences. Chapter one deals with procedural matters; Chapter Two covers trails arising from transgressions of the laws of Georgian and Regency society like drunkenness, theft, violence and homosexuality. Chapter Three is devoted to proceedings against types of naval offence, such a mutiny, insolence, desertion or loss of ship. Chapter Four treats of cases involving adjudications for multiple infractions. These transcripts are presented in their entirety and offer a unique window to the social conditions and behaviour aboard the King's ships at the time.
Author : Charles Cooper Penrose Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Admirals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081162794
Author : J.R. Tanner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000947731
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) made a significant contribution to British history by his work as a naval administrator, and he bequeathed to Magdalen College, Cambridge its greatest treasure – his library, a unique collection of 3,000 books and manuscripts, still preserved as he left it. There are 250 volumes of manuscripts and these NRS volumes published selected documents from the collection. In this volume Tanner gives a lengthy general introduction to Pepys’s career as a naval administrator and to the papers he left at his death, and also prints from them lists of ships and officers from 1660 to 1688.