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Pen & Sword Books Ltd French Aircraft Carriers
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Titanic
Book SynopsisThis is the only book ever published which concentrates on Titanic people from one particular region Greater Manchester. The RMS Titanic disaster, which occurred on the night of 14/15 April 1912, is one of history's most catastrophic human tragedies, which resulted in a terrible sacrifice of life. The people on board were proud to be part of the ship's maiden voyage, but what they didn't know was that it was destined to be its only voyage. The county of Greater Manchester in the north-west of England is made up of the Metropolitan boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. More than 30 people from the region had connections with RMS Titanic - they being a mixture of passengers and crew, and the majority of them lost their lives. This is the story of who they were, what happened to them during the disaster, and what the future held for those who survived. Some of them left detailed accounts of the horrific incident.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Sea Fishing Disasters
Book SynopsisThe Eyemouth Fishing Disaster saw almost two hundred men lose their lives when their small, wooden fishing boats were caught in near-hurricane force winds off the coast of Scotland in 1881. The Japanese fishing training vessel the Ehime Maru was quietly making its way across the Pacific Ocean when it was struck from beneath by a US Navy nuclear submarine and sank within minutes. The British trawler Gaul, newly constructed and specifically designed to handle harsh conditions and stormy seas, was lost with all hands in 1974 without managing to issue a distress call. The cause of its sinking would remain a mystery for over two decades. These are three of the twelve disasters this book covers in gripping detail. The key events which led to each disaster are analysed, along with the impact that the disaster had on the fishing industry and local communities, and the changes in laws and legislation which were put in place to prevent such tragedies from happening again. Several different types of fishing disasters are examined with incidents involving trawlers, dredgers, shellfish pickers, seal hunters and recreational anglers all being covered. This book reveals exactly why commercial fishing is the world's most dangerous peacetime occupation.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Germanicus Romes Unlucky Prince
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Titanic The Searches and the Dives
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Brontë Family
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Saints Sinners
Book SynopsisThis is a true story. About survival. A Breton soldier who fought at Hastings returns to his family's ancient Celtic roots in theWest County. Nicholas St Aubyn follows his family's tenuous path over the next onethousand years, describing those they loved, the many wars they fought, and their role inCornish rebellions. His story also features a host of remarkable women, from the Countess ofOxford in the 14th century to Honor Basset at the 16th century Tudor court and Vita Sackville-West, amemberof the 20th century Bloomsbury Group. He shows how the St Aubyns acquired St Michaels' Mount during the Civil War, the Jacobiteconspiracy plotted by Sir John St Aubyn, and the love between his grandson Sir John andlocal farmer's daughter, Juliana, who inspired Winston Graham's Poldark novels. The storymoves from medieval battles, and shipwrecked treasure in Mount's Bay, to love at the Courtof Henry VIII, and the political fortunes of fourteen family MPs since 1283. The diary of one illegitimate son reveals the life of a Regency rake, as another builds aproperty empire in Devonport, while a third shocks his parishioners. In the First World War,St Aubynswere found on the Western Front, and during the Second, they served on the PQ17 ArcticConvoy and at the Battle of Arnhem. The gift of the family castle to the National Trustseventy years ago is one of many events that give this history its unique and increasinglypersonal perspectiveas the family identity evolves.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Ancient Germans and Rome AD 68 to 500
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Epic History of the American West
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Decipherment of Linear A
Book SynopsisLinear A is a Middle and Late Bronze Age script principally used on Crete. Dated to 1800 - 1450 BC, it was discovered by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in 1900 and for over 120 years it has until now defied decipherment. In his book, author Mark Cook, a forensic accountant, demonstrates how he deciphered Linear A. His work describes how he first approached decipherment by setting aside commonly held misconceptions. Previous decipherment attempts typically incorrectly assumed the underlying language was an unknown Minoan language (Crete being the heart of the Minoan Empire), or misconstrued its relationship with Linear B (the earliest written form of Greek, which replaced it). Linear A is found mainly on clay tablets recording ephemeral accounting information, and Mark Cook tackled the decipherment as an accountant, focussing on the numbers, noting the mathematical relationships between the items recorded (which relationships were evident in the later Linear B script where the same things were being recorded), and analysing the characters used to record them. Mark Cook demonstrates that Linear A is Middle Egyptian, written in a form of shorthand used by the later Greeks and Romans, using hieroglyphs that were modified and simplified to be incised quickly and easily in wet clay. Many of the tablets, he reveals, are Egyptian taxation records. Based on the tablets he translates, and the reinterpretation of Egyptian evidence, Mark Cook concludes that New Kingdom Egypt ultimately came to rule Crete for a brief period, rewriting what we know of the end of the Minoan Empire.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Surrender of the UBoat Fleet 1945
Book SynopsisIn the weeks after the end of the War in May 1945, 156 U-boats surrendered to the Allies. Some of these either surrendered at sea or directly in a variety of ports, whilst the majority were taken over whilst moored in German bases in Norway, Denmark and France. Nine gave themselves up in the USA, Canada and Argentina. This book provides a comprehensive record of the surrender of all these vessels, and it also includes the story of the 200 or so U-boats which were scuttled, rather than surrendered, in the final days of the War. And it includes details of others which have been raised since and then either been used or scrapped. The author begins by describing the development of Allied policy in 1943, 1944 and early 1945 for the surrender and disposal of the German Navy and its surviving U-boats. It then explains the surrender arrangements, as well as the discussions concerning U-boats at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 and by the Tripartite Naval Commission (TNC) in Berlin between August and December 1945. The uses and fates of all the surrendered U-boats are then described, particularly those which were formally allocated to the UK, the USA and the USSR. It includes the story of the capture of U-505, before concluding with a schedule showing the final disposal details of each of the U-boats which surrendered. The level of detail, and the exhaustive research incorporated in this work, makes it both an important new reference book and a fascinating analysis of one of the most significant events of the War's end; it also leads the reader into the world of postwar submarine development and the tussle between the US and Soviet navies to best exploit the technical advances that originated with the wartime U-boat. It is, with no doubt, the most complete account on this topic The time is more than ripe for this.'Dr Axel Niestle, German Naval HistorianThank you so much for your precious work bringing light into the end of the German U-Boats at the end of WW II. My congratulations for a wonderful piece of research'.Horst Bredow - Director of the Cuxhaven U-Boat Archive and MuseumA remarkably well researched work.'Glenn Helm, US Naval History and Heritage Command
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Formidable Women who Shaped Medieval Europe
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Coastal Motor Boats
Book SynopsisAccording to conventional naval history, the Coastal Motor Boat was the brainchild of three enterprising young Royal Navy officers in the early stages of the First World War. This new book reveals that the truth was far more complex, and historically more significant. Research in previously unused family records shows that the shipbuilder John I Thornycroft played a pivotal role, building on his pre-war experience in the new sport of fast motor-boat racing, without which the technologically advanced CMB could never have been built. This book goes on to analyse the original role for which these boats were specifically designed an attack on the German High Seas Fleet in its protected anchorages and why the operation never took place. Later activities are covered but by the end of the war many regarded the CMB as a disappointment, if not a downright failure. This changed dramatically in 1919 with the RN's intervention against the Bolsheviks, when CMBs spectacularly raided the Kronstad naval base following the single-handed sinking of the Russian cruiser Oleg by CMB.4. Although these operations have been written up many times previously, for the first time this book has had access to contemporary Soviet reports which throw much new light on these events and their significance. After the war, the Royal Navy lost interest in CMBs unlike the Soviets who built large numbers of what were effectively copies but the Thornycroft design continued to be built and operated by navies as far apart as those of Finland and China. Some of these saw action in the Second World War and these largely unreported actions are also covered. The story concludes with a description of the current project in Portsmouth Naval Base which aimed to build an exact replica of CMB.4. The information gleaned from this experimental archaeology' forms a fitting end to a book replete with new information and novel insights.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ancient British and Irish Celts in Greek and Roman Sources 500 BCAD 60
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Mussolinis Navy
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Cataphracts
Book SynopsisCataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armour. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe tribes, such as the Massegatae and Scythians, they were adopted and adapted by several major empires. The Achaemenid Persians, Seleucids, Sassanians and eventually the Romans and their Byzantine successors. Usually armed with long lances, they harnessed the mobility and mass of the horse to the durability and solid fighting power of the spear-armed phalanx. Although very expensive to equip and maintain (not least due to the need for a supply of suitable horses), they were potential battle winners and remained in use for many centuries. Erich B Anderson assesses the development, equipment, tactics and combat record of cataphracts (and the similar clibinarii), showing also how enemies sought to counter them. This is a valuable study of one of the most interesting weapon systems of the ancient world.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Crimean War at Sea
Book SynopsisToo often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.
£14.24
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Philippine Insurrection 18991902
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Taken as Red Highs and Lows of the Labour Party
Book SynopsisThis book comprises tales of the Labour Party in the hundred years since the first Labour government. It includes many dramatic episodes, not least the seething anger of the Glasgow rent strikes during the Great War, the looming danger of Hitler in the 1930s, and walkouts over equal pay in the 1960s. The book conjures up lost worlds which have profoundly influenced modern Britain. Above all, this book describes the ways in which the Labour Party has impacted on the lives of ordinary people. How does Labour measure up after a century of government and opposition? The book is accessible and challenges established narratives. It is also original. No-one else, for example, has written so specifically about the Labour Party and Nazi rearmament or about the Wilson government's response to the Beeching cuts. The text draws on a wide variety of sources, including the testimony of public figures such as John Betjeman, Richard Hoggart, Friedrich Engels, and George Orwell. Researched with scholar
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Whittles Never to Return
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Austin Macauley Publishers Sir Edward Greys Liberal Critics 19051914
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Austin Macauley Publishers Sir Edward Greys Liberal Critics 19051914
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Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. The Battle of Broken Hill
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Random House Canada Under Siege
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Taylor & Francis Opposition and Challenges
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Taylor & Francis Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Challenging Capitalism
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Taylor & Francis From Epic Tales to Digital Trails
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Taylor & Francis Witnessing Sociocide
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Taylor & Francis The New Key Concepts in Affective Societies
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Taylor & Francis The Birth of Persian Art c. 550486 BC
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Taylor & Francis Money and Interculturality
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Taylor & Francis Transforming America in 1903
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Misunderstanding the Korean Wave
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Taylor & Francis New Gramscian Paths
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Taylor & Francis Digital Media Law
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Taylor & Francis Interconnected World Lost Connections
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Taylor & Francis Armada Guns
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1961, this masterly study of the guns used by the rivals in the Armada campaign remains an essential contribution to the understanding of the event, for it gave a new perspective to the whole battle. The long-drawn-out struggle in the summer of 1588 was the first major sea-action which was a straight artillery-duel and nothing else. With that the ship-borne gun began its long reign which lasted unbroken from the Armada to the Coral Sea and Midway Island.
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Taylor & Francis Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump
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Taylor & Francis Early Wooden Railways
Book SynopsisThe basic principle of the railway is one of great antiquity and wooden railways were used in many European mines from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. But the most far-reaching developments, as Dr. Lewis shows in this classic and hard-to-find reissued book, originally published in 1970, took place in British coalfields. Here on the many railways that were developed after 1600 the flanged wheel replaced the crude means of guidance found on the Continent and horses were employed to pull large waggons overland from the pits to rivers and harbours. This book, drawing largely on contemporary documents, discuss the early wooden railways of both Britain and Europe in terms of their operation, labour force, costs, engineering and location and demonstrates how these lines had a twofold importance. Economically, in supplying an adequate transport system, they enabled coal to be mined further from the waterways and thus encouraged a vast expansion in the coal trade; and they also laid the firm foundation on which the Railway Age of the nineteenth century was built.
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Taylor & Francis The Norwegian Economy
Book SynopsisThe success of the Norwegian economy in the twentieth century has been remarkable. In 1910 Norway was industrially backward and one of the poorest nations in Europe. In 1980 The Economist ranked Norway among the three richest industrial countries in the world. In 2025 Norway is the 9th richest country in the world according to GDP. Originally published in 1983, this book presents a detailed and penetrating analysis of the Norwegian economy. It describes the geography and resource endowment of Norway and explores population changes. The different stages of development, including the difficult years of the German occupation are examined in depth and government policies discussed, with particular reference to their effect on the trade union movement.The author considers the different sectors of the economy and surveys overall economic trends. He relates economic developments to important political and social changes which affected the economy and compares the Norwegian economy to others, and to the movements in the international economy.
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Taylor & Francis Digital ExposÃs of ExtremeRight Shock Channels
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cyberviolence against Women
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Containing Latin America
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Taylor & Francis Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 5681154
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Taylor & Francis Emotions Passions and Power in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisEmotions depend on language, cultural practices, expectation and moral beliefs. Hate, fear, cruelty and love are always turning history into the history of passion and lust, because emotional life is always ready to overflow intellectual life. This fascinating study of emotion in Renaissance Italy shows that emotions are built and created by the society in which they are expressed and conditioned. The contributors examine, among others, the emotional language of the court, around public execution, religious practices and during outbreaks of disease.
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Taylor & Francis A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence Decoloniality and Feminism
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