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No Pyrrhic Victories
In early 1918, it seemed to many that the British people and the Allies were close to defeat. At home, the chief culprit was the German U-boat. Sailing almost unopposed from the …
The Royal Navy and Polar Exploration Vol 2
The search for the North West Passage took many lives, not least the entire crews of Franklin's Erebus and Terror. This book tells the story of not just Franklin and his ill-fated …
The Royal Navy in Polar Exploration Vol 1
This first volume in the history of the Royal Navy in Polar exploration covers the period from the sixteenth century up to 1842 and Ross’s explorations of the Polar regions. The …
Captain Vancouver
When Captain Cook set out to seek a western entrance to the fabled North West Passage, his instructions allowed him no more than the briefest contact with the coast of north-west …
The Pig War
With a plot to grace any comic opera, the 1859-72 'Pig War' broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of Georgia shot a British pig he found …
The Grail Chronicles
This is the story of a plain silver chalice from the first century AD that now rests in the heart of England. From its momentous beginnings as the cup used by Christ at the Last …
The Royal Navy and Polar Exploration
The search for the North West Passage, the fabled northern route to the Orient, took many lives, not least the entire crews of Franklin's Erebus and Terror, and some of the men …