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ABT, War of 1812. / ABT :

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HMS Bermuda Days : an Ordinary Seaman's Log. by Broadbent, Peter

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Running a big ship : the classic guide to commanding a second world war battleship by O'Conor, Rory

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George VI. by Denis, Judd

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface to the 2012 Edition; Preface; Introduction; 1: A Royal, and Deprived, Childhood, 1895-1908; 2: The Naval Cadet, 1909-1913; 3: The Royal Navy, 1913-1917; 4: Further Education, 1918-1920; 5: The Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 1920-1923; 6: Royal Wedding, 1923; 7: Duke at Work: Industrial Relations; 8: The Duke of York's Camp; 9: Wider Responsibilities, Lionel Logue, and the World Tour, 1924-1927; 10: Family Man, 1926-1936.…”
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History.

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RAF Fighter Command

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Voyages of discovery by Cook, James, 1728-1779

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The interesting narrative by Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797

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Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires 1730-1850

Table of Contents: “…6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-607 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy; Part III Voyages as Test Sites; 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; Part IV The Practice of Navigation; 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?…”
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The past as prologue : the importance of history to the military profession / Past as prolog

Table of Contents: “…Gray -- History and the nature of strategy / John Gooch -- Military transformation in long periods of peace : the Victorian Royal Navy / Andrew Gordon -- Military history and the pathology of lessons learned : the Russo-Japanese War, a case study / Jonathan B.A. …”
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From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba : an Environmental History since 1492. by Monzote, Reinaldo Funes

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Der Erste Weltkrieg zur See. by Epkenhans, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Inhalt; Einleitung; Die deutsche Seestrategie 1914-1918; Learning to Fight On, Above and Below the Water: Operational Challenges of the Royal Navy, 1914-1916; Unvorbereitet und schockiert. …”
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Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain : from the first alliance to post-9/11 by Patalano, Alessio

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain / Alessio Patalano -- Strategic partnership and military rivalry across the oceans -- the fulcrum of power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, 1880-1945 / John Ferris -- Sea power and Anglo-Japanese military relations, 1863-1923 / Haruo Tohmatsu -- Britain's strategic view of Japanese naval power, 1923-1942 / Douglas Ford -- Strategic priorities from the Cold War to Iraq -- Balancing threat perceptions and strategic priorities: Japan's post-war defence policy / Noboru Yamaguchi -- British defence policy and the transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and beyond / Eric Grove -- Punching below the weight: Japan's post-Cold War expeditionary missions / Chiyuki Aoi -- Maritime strategy in an interdependent world -- the political and normative constraints to Japan's national security / Guibourg Delamotte -- 'Back to an offshore future': the role of the past in Britain's contemporary defence policy / Steven Jermy -- From alliance to coalition, then where? …”
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The story of our submarines by Bower, John Graham, 1886-1940

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Slaves of one master : globalization and slavery in Arabia in the age of empire by Hopper, Matthew S.

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A Frenchman in Search of Franklin : De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54. by De Bray, Emile Frédéric

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Fighter pilot. / Fighter pilot :

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The fall of Crete 1941 : was Freyberg culpable by Bliss, James

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Hitler's secret pirate fleet : the deadliest ships of World War II by Duffy, James P., 1941-

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Britain's economic blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 by Osborne, Eric W.

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Captain Cook : master of the seas by McLynn, Frank

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America's first crisis : the War of 1812 / War of 1812 by Watson, Robert P., 1962-

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America's first crisis : the War of 1812 / War of 1812 by Watson, Robert P., 1962-

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Snapshots of great leadership by Howell, Jon P.

Table of Contents: “…American Civil Rights Leader -- 21.George Washington First President of the United States -- 22.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva President of Brazil -- 23.Mohandas Gandhi Indian Political and Spiritual Leader -- 24.Sitting Bull Sioux War Chief -- 25.Indra Nooyi CEO of PepsiCo Inc -- 26.Horatio Nelson Vice Admiral of the British Royal Navy -- pt. III Snapshots of Bad Leadership -- 27.Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 -- 28.Albert Dunlap Corporate Executive -- 29.Idi Amin President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 -- 30.David Koresh Religious Cult Leader -- 31.Kenneth Lay CEO of Enron Corporation.…”

Computerised Test Generation for Cross-National Military Recruitment : a Handbook. by Irvine, S. H.

Table of Contents: “…Cawkill; CHAPTER 8: On Board with the Royal Navy; CHAPTER 9: Gunnery and Electronics: Learning to Know How; Part 3: The Second Generation; Introduction to CHAPTER 10 by P.C. …”
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The day the world was shocked : the Lusitania disaster and its influence on the course of World War I by Protasio, John

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The British Commonwealth and the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 : personal encounters and government assessments

Table of Contents: “…The British Commonwealth occupation force: personal views -- An Australian's experiences / T.B. Millar -- Some Royal Navy reflections / Walter Miller -- RAF experiences / Hugh Cortazzi -- A British army perspective / Ian Nish -- A historian and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) / R. …”
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Against the draft : essays on conscientious objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War by Brock, Peter, 1920-2006

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians -- 2 A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) -- 3 Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden -- 4 Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy -- 5 Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France -- 6 The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question -- 7 Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands -- 8 When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America -- 9 Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814-1902 -- 10 Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary -- 11 Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia -- 12 The Škarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan -- 13 The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan -- 14 'Boy Conscription' in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters -- 15 Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars -- 16 Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War -- 17 Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists -- 18 The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany -- 19 Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914-February 1917 -- 20 Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union -- 21 Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 -- 22 Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland -- 23 Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain -- 24 British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War.…”
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Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo by Hall, Basil, 1788-1844

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A nation's Navy : in quest of Canadian naval identity

Table of Contents: “…6 The Rise of Proto-nationalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Founding of the Naval Service of Canada, 1902-1910 -- 7 Sailors and Soldiers: The Royal Navy, the Canadian Forces, and the Defence of Atlantic Canada, 1890-1918 -- 8 Fleet Replacement and the Crisis of Identity -- PART THREE: THE NAVY AS A FIGHTING SERVICE -- 9 A Minute Bletchley Park: Building a Canadian Naval Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1943 -- 10 Muddling Through: Canadian Anti-submarine Doctrine and Practice, 1942-1945 -- 11 MIFor MNF? …”
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America, Sea Power, and the World by Bradford, James C.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- America, Sea Power, and the World -- Contents -- Contributors -- Maps -- Figures -- Tables -- Vignettes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Sea Power and the Modern State System -- Sea Power in the Ancient World -- The Modern World and the Great Power System -- Competition for Empire -- Anglo-Dutch Wars -- Development of Modern Navies -- War of the Grand Alliance (1688-1697) -- Privateering -- War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 -- Sailing Warships -- Wars of the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2 The American War for Independence at Sea -- Royal Navy Operations to 1778…”
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War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800. / History of Warfare Ser by Fynn-Paul, Jeff

Table of Contents: “…Public Service and Private Profit: British Fiscal-Military Entrepreneurship Overseas, 1707-1712Aaron Graham; Chapter 5; Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783; Stephen Conway; Chapter 6; Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century; Helen Julia Paul; Chapter 7; Accounting for Power: Bookkeeping and the Rationalization of Dutch Naval Administration; Pepijn Brandon; Chapter 8.…”
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Winston S. Churchill : Young Statesman, 1901-1914. by Churchill, Randolph S.

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Freedom burning : anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain by Huzzey, Richard, 1982-

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History of Technology Volume 21. by Hollister-Short, Graham

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller; Abstract; Steam, Strategy And Tactics; The Admiralty And The Steam Warship; The Ship Propeller Company And The Promotion Of The Screw Propeller, 1836-1852; Smith After The Failure Of The Company; Conclusion; Notes and References; The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao and Its Antecedents; Earliest Representations Of Technology In China.…”
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The Genealogist's Internet : the Essential Guide to Researching Your Family History Online. by Christian, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Civil courtsChurch courts; 9 Occupations; Occupational terms; General information; Individual industries and occupations; The learned professions; Company records; Trade unions; 10 The Armed Forces; General information; The Royal Navy and merchant navy; The army; The Royal Air Force; Medals; Commemoration; 11 Migration and Colonies; Passenger lists; The Americas; Australasia; Africa and the Caribbean; India; European immigration; 12 Print Sources; Books; Electoral records; Directories; Newspapers; 13 Archives and Libraries; Gateways to archives; The National Register of Archives.…”
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Champlain : the birth of French America

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Preface -- Historiography of Samuel Champlain -- PART I: France in Champlain's Time -- The Royal Navy in Champlain's Time -- Henri IV and the World Overseas: A Decisive Time in the History of New France -- Brouage in the Time of Champlain: A New Town Open to the World -- American Aboriginals in the Ballets de Cour in Champlain's Time -- The European Fur Trade and the Context of Champlain's Arrival -- PART II: Before 1603 -- The Continent on which Champlain Set Foot in 1603 -- The Manuscripts of the Brief Discours…”
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Champlain : the birth of French America

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Preface -- Historiography of Samuel Champlain -- PART I: France in Champlain's Time -- The Royal Navy in Champlain's Time -- Henri IV and the World Overseas: A Decisive Time in the History of New France -- Brouage in the Time of Champlain: A New Town Open to the World -- American Aboriginals in the Ballets de Cour in Champlain's Time -- The European Fur Trade and the Context of Champlain's Arrival -- PART II: Before 1603 -- The Continent on which Champlain Set Foot in 1603 -- The Manuscripts of the Brief Discours…”
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Arctic Commando Assault.

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Hard aground : the wreck of the USS Tennessee and the rise of the US Navy / Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the rise of the US Navy by Jampoler, Andrew C. A., 1942-

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