Maritime history books

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The Great Port Cities of Asia: In History

The Great Port Cities of Asia: In History

Author: Kennie Ting
ISBN: 9789811889738
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297–1825

Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297–1825...

Author: Ian Friel
ISBN: 9781399000505
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Britain and the Ocean Road uses new firsthand research and unconventional interpretations to take a fresh look at...  Read More >>

Titanic's Unlucky Seven: The Story of the Ill-Fated Liner’s Officers

Titanic's Unlucky Seven: The Story of the Ill-Fated...

Author: James W Bancroft
ISBN: 9781036102517
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay,...

Author: George Behe
ISBN: 9781803993355
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanic’s history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder...  Read More >>

Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Erik de Lange (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781009364140
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective...  Read More >>

The Rescue Ships and The Convoys: Saving Lives During The Second World War

The Rescue Ships and The Convoys: Saving Lives During...

Author: B B Schofield ,  Victoria Schofield
ISBN: 9781036102661
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime...  Read More >>

Titanic: Sinking The Myths

Titanic: Sinking The Myths

Author: D E Bristow ,  Ryan Katzenbach
ISBN: 9781958727263
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of the first book to expose the TITANIC cover-up. In over 100 years there have...  Read More >>

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy...

Author: Charlie Papavizas
ISBN: 9781962729048
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of...

Author: Jeff Maynard
ISBN: 9780008532765
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom...  Read More >>

Escape The Titanic: Use your wits and solve the puzzles to survive

Escape The Titanic: Use your wits and solve the puzzles...

Author: JOEL JESSUP
ISBN: 9780711286443
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France

Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day...

Author: Nick Hewitt
ISBN: 9780300256734
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy...  Read More >>

Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

Author: Dennis Romano (Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History Emeritus, Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History Emeritus, Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9780190859985
Format: Hardback
$79.95

"A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice--from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day--that...  Read More >>

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy...

Author: Charlie Papavizas
ISBN: 9781962729031
Format: Hardback
$108.11

Charlie Papavizas captures a rich history from the early 17th century English Navigation Acts to the building of...  Read More >>

Blowing Hot and Cold: Thermotank and the Story of Air Conditioning at Sea

Blowing Hot and Cold: Thermotank and the Story of Air...

Author: Ian Johnston
ISBN: 9781036107697
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Air-conditioning is one of those universal modern conveniences whose origins are entirely unknown to the general...  Read More >>

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

Shipwrecks of the Dover Straits

Shipwrecks of the Dover Straits

Author: Stefan Panis
ISBN: 9781849954969
Format: Paperback
$49.14

An amazing combination of true wreck-diving adventures complemented with stunning underwater photography. It includes...  Read More >>

c/o Cunard House: 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3

c/o Cunard House: 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3...

Author: Bill Ferguson
ISBN: 9781849955829
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Records the life of a mariner in the Merchant Navy in its heyday and explores all aspects of working for a premier...  Read More >>

Super Destroyers: From the Torpedo Boat Era to the Dominant Surface Warship of Today

Super Destroyers: From the Torpedo Boat Era to the Dominant...

Author: Robert C Stern
ISBN: 9781526777454
Format: Hardback
$125.00

From the very beginnings of torpedo craft, all naval powers have seen the occasional need for larger, more powerful...  Read More >>

Ocean Liners: A New History

Ocean Liners: A New History

Author: Anthony Burton
ISBN: 9781399049795
Format: Hardback
$75.00

There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality...  Read More >>

St Helena: An Island Biography

St Helena: An Island Biography

Author: Arthur MacGregor
ISBN: 9781837650880
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Traces the impact of world events on St Helena's topography, ecology and human population, from the early 1500s...  Read More >>

Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory

Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory...

Author: Stephen Fisher
ISBN: 9781787636712
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An immersive narrative non-fiction account of the landings on Sword Beach by new maritime historian Stephen Fisher...  Read More >>

Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates

Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates

Author: Richard Blakemore
ISBN: 9781803991733
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Shining a light on who pirates really were, and how the well-known ‘skull and crossbones’ Hollywood stereotype evolved...  Read More >>

The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea

The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime...

Author: John Coakley ,  Nathan Kwan
ISBN: 9789463720960
Format: Hardback
$318.26

In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion...  Read More >>

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