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This is the first book to cover all submarine and anti-submarine operations of the major powers, U.S., British, German, Japanese and Italian in the Se...
Examines the records of a U.S. Senate hearing and a British formal investigation and attacks the theory that the Californian was in plain sight of the...
'Has the authentic tang of the sea, salty, sharp, refreshing.' Yorkshire Post 'Viewing Trafalgar as the fitting finale to twelve years of hard fightin...
A grimly compelling study of Hitler's SS and Gestapo chief who masterminded the attempted extermination of the Jewish race in Europe. Peter Padfield e...
Submarine Conflict During World War II
Praise for War Beneath the Sea "I am truly filled with awe and admiration...fascinating and a great contribution to the entire lore of submarines.... ...
Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1852-2001
Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have pr...
More than the story of the intense battleship-building competition between Great Britain and Imperial Germany before the First World War, this is a st...
The Last Fuhrer
Grand Admiral Karl Donitz was a major military commander in the Second World War. His name will always be associated with his attempt to cut Britain's...
The Real Turning Point of the Second World War - A Secret History
When Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess set off for Britain on a peace mission in May 1941, he launched one of the great mysteries of the Second World War. H...
Battleship describes the evolution from the wooden man-of-war plated with iron armour to the great steel leviathan of the Second World War, and its ul...
Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World
From the best naval historian of his generation (John Keegan) comes a brilliant exploration of the significance of maritime power in shaping the weste...
The Last FĂĽhrer
A distinguished naval historian and biographer paints a riveting portrait of Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, the Supreme Commander of the German Navy and m...
Freedom of expression and individual enterprise flowing from merchant imperatives have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and sinc...
The Victorian and Edwardian Navy
A readable history of the British Royal Navy during the 19th century height of the British Empire....
Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851
In his deft and astute analysis of the factors that led Britain to global dominance in the nineteenth century, Padfield shows Naval history to be a ma...
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Between 1793 and 1805, Britain fought a series of naval battles against the new French Republic. In this text, Padfield throws controversial light on ...
Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1588-1782
A masterpiece of naval history, this book charts the growth of sea-fighting and trading and reveals the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought an...
A Biography
Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851
"With Maritime Supremacy, naval historian Peter Padfield was acclaimed for bringing a fresh perspective to world history by looking at it through the ...
The Anglo-German Naval Rivalry, 1900-1914
ReichsfĂĽhrer-SS
Exploration of the personality and life of Hitler's Chief of the SS...
Submarine Conflict 1939 - 1945
Rudolf Hess, Winston Churchill, and the Real Turning Point of WWII
Until now there has been no satisfactory answer to the question of why, in May of 1941, Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess flew a German fighter plane across...
A portrait of the head of Hitler's SS police and Gestapo draws on diaries, letters, and speeches to describe Himmler's life, the evolution of his beli...
The FĂĽhrer's Disciple
The flight of Rudolf Hess, deputy leader of the Nazi Party, to Scotland in May 1941 remains one of the second World War’s great unresolved mysteries...
The Last FĂĽhrer : Portrait of a Nazi War Leader
A Celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588-1988
Concerns the 1587-8 campaign, its preparation, course and conclusion....
A boy's devotion to soup leads to a position in Le Ritz restaurant in Paris....
In June, 1813, Captain Philip Broke od the Royal Navy sent a challenge to equal combat to the American Captain Lawrence. It was the climax of years of...
Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World
In Maritime Dominion Peter Padfield examines the historical influence of naval power....