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Christmas Wedding Belles
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Nicola Cornick,Miranda Jarrett,Margaret McPhee |
Regency. The Pirate's Kiss by Nicola Cornick. Famous and feared pirate Daniel de Lancey is master and commander of the Defiance. Only one woman makes him want to swap danger for desire, sea for seduc… |
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Prisoner of the rising sun
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Stanley Wort |
"I was told that because a regular signalman had failed to return from leave, and because mine was the last name alpabetically on the list of new boys, I was being sent in his place."When the author … |
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Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy
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Maurice Cocker |
160 p. : 25 cm |
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The pursuit of victory
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R. J. B. Knight |
How did Horatio Nelson achieve such extraordinary success? In this authoritative biography, the eminent scholar Roger Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy of the time. Nelson was… |
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Samuel Pepys
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Stephen Coote |
"Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), perhaps the most famous Englishman of the Restoration and one of the greatest writers of any period, is brought to life in this new biography. Pepys was a man of boundless … |
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The price of glory
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Seth Hunter |
Captain Nathan Peake survives a ferocious battle on the treacherous seas off Brittany, only to be cast into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the … |
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The mountain of gold
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J. D. Davies |
Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled… |
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Citizen sailors
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Glyn Prysor |
From the Battle of Dunkirk to the sinking of the Bismark and Scharnhorst, "Citizen Sailors" is the first definitive history of the Royal Navy in WWII. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and … |
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Cross - Sections Man of War (Stephen Biesty's Cross-sections)
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Richard Platt |
Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting. |
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Blood of tyrants
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Naomi Novik |
Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten… |
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No better friend
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Robert Weintraub |
"Tells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII. Judy was a fiercely loyal animal who sensed danger an… |
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League of dragons
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Naomi Novik |
"With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other, combining the high-flying appeal of Anne McCaffrey's Pern saga and the … |
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Girl from Simon's Bay
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Barbara Mutch |
1 online resource (242) |
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A sailor's war
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W. G. Mattin |
As soon as the author reached his eighteenth birthday, he left his reserved occupation on a farm and enlisted. He trained as an asdic operator and joined the warship HMS London, running the gauntlet … |
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Nelson's battles
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Nicholas Tracy |
'Nelson's Battles' looks at the whole subject of naval warfare, the equipment, the men, the tactics and strategies, but also provides much biographical information on Nelson himself. |
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Plain Yarns from the Fleet
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Owen, Charles |
The author explores the spirit of the Royal Navy in its 20th-century heyday, from 1900 and on through two momentous world wars to 1945. With anecdotes, eyewitness accounts, reminiscences, archive mat… |
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Joining the grey funnel line
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Frank Saies-Jones |
The true story of a young boy with a burning desire to join the Royal Navy, and who had made plans to enter the training ship HMS Conway as a Naval Cadet at the age of fifteen. |
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Twelve Seconds to Live
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Douglas Reeman |
The dramatic new novel from the bestselling author of For Valour.The mine is an impartial killer, and a lethal challenge to any volunteer in the Special Countermeasures of the Royal Navy. They are br… |
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Escape from Hell
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V. A. Stuart |
In this final book of the Hazard series, Stuart brings Commander Hazard facing the dangers and betrayals that come with command and war.
With the Sepoy Mutiny still threatening British lives in In… |
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His Majesty's Dragon
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Naomi Novik |
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fight… |
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