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Product Description: The '74' was the classic line-of-battle ship of the late eighteenth century, and Bellona was one of the most important and long lived. Launched in 1760, during the Seven Years War, she belonged to the first truly successful class of British 74gun ships, a design by Thomas Slade that was built in large numbers over more than twenty years...read more
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9780851779164, titled "The 74-Gun Ship Bellona" | Revised edition (Conway Maritime Pr, April 30, 2010), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The '74' was the classic line-of-battle ship of the late eighteenth century, and Bellona was one of the most important and long lived.

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9780870211485 | Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $32.95

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9780870210099 | Naval Inst Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $75.00

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9781848320505, titled "Assault Landing Craft: Design, Construction & Operations" | Seaforth Pubns, February 28, 2010, cover price $39.99

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9781557500786 | Naval Inst Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: One of Britain's top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill's wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill's navy. Entirely original in his approach, Lavery considers the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war...read more
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9781591141037 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: One of Britain's top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill's wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill's navy.

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Product Description: The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is an epic story of heroism and defiance, of stinging defeats but glorious triumphs. Typically books tend to concentrate on the battle history of the navy, and of course this book also examines this topic from convoys to amphibious war, from submarine operations to the last gunnery battles in the Atlantic...read more
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9781844860357 | Naval Inst Pr, October 25, 2006, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is an epic story of heroism and defiance, of stinging defeats but glorious triumphs.

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9780870215834 | Naval Inst Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $37.95

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Product Description: The design, construction, and careers—in history and in fiction—of Jack Aubrey’s favorite command. There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. Yet, this 28-...read more
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9780393070095 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 18, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The design, construction, and careers—in history and in fiction—of Jack Aubrey’s favorite command.

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Product Description: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was undoubtedly Britain's greatest naval leader and perhaps the greatest sea commander of all time. Although his complex character often made him enemies and led to mistakes in both his public and private life, he was an unrivaled seaman, an original and brave tactician, and a charismatic leader...read more
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9780814751909 | New York Univ Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was undoubtedly Britain's greatest naval leader and perhaps the greatest sea commander of all time.

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Product Description: Just over a million people - 923,000 men and 86,000 women - served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. The training of these men, and the women of the WRNS, was a major task in wartime Britain. This was to be the first real citizen navy, the only one in history apart from the US Navy and Commonwealth navies in the same conflict...read more
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9780948065484 | Natl Maritime Museum, April 1, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Just over a million people - 923,000 men and 86,000 women - served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

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Product Description: Brian Lavery's extensively researched study takes an in-depth look at the officers of the Royal Navy and the various routes they took from initial recruitment and training to their role in the fighting. The first half of the book looks at the selection and training of all types of officers and includes a chapter on the training establishment where recruits were prepared for war...read more
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9781591144014 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Brian Lavery's extensively researched study takes an in-depth look at the officers of the Royal Navy and the various routes they took from initial recruitment and training to their role in the fighting.

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by Brian Lavery; Ellen Macarthur (foreword by)
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9781844860166 | Conway Maritime Pr, July 19, 2005, cover price $29.95

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Explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester, showing how the life of real naval heroes compares to that portrayed in novels and films.
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9781591144038 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: No fiction writer of modern times has captured the world of wooden walls, broadsides, and the press gang as successfully as Patrick O’Brian.

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9781591144021 | Naval Inst Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.

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Product Description: What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson? Were that sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvey? How did life compare between those of a high rank, and those who served them? What were conditions like below the decks, living among the rats and the filth? How did you cope if you suffered from sea sickness? This book takes you back in time to see, hear, smell and taste what life was really like for these brave sailors at sea...read more
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9780750947763 | Sutton Pub Ltd, February 16, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson?

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by Brian Lavery (contributor)
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9780820114811 | Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint, June 1, 1993, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood and transport. A fascinating view of an often overlooked aspect of history.
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9780713485837 | B T Batsford Ltd, December 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood and transport.
9780713485202 | B T Batsford Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood and transport.

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9781856690614 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 1995, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781557506405 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet.
9781861760401 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet.

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Product Description: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet...read more
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9781840675221 | Caxton Editions, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In this book, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet.

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Product Description: Published on the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, this handsomely illustrated book paints a vibrant picture of the most famous battle of the age of sail. Unlike other books on the subject, which are told mostly from Nelson's point of view or evaluate the battle's effect on world strategy, this definitive new assessment sees the battle through the eyes of other individuals involved...read more
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9781591146100 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Published on the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, this handsomely illustrated book paints a vibrant picture of the most famous battle of the age of sail.
9780948065491 | Natl Maritime Museum, December 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was the most famous of the age of sail, and the last in the long series between Britain and France.

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Sweeping, encyclopedic, and full of powerful images, this large-format celebration of Lord Nelson's Royal Navy covers the design and construction of navel vessels as well as navigation, steering, battle tactics, and gunnery techniques employed by Nelson's men. Reprint. (Military History) (view table of contents)
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9780870212581 | Naval Inst Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: First published in 1990, this encyclopedic yet highly readable work gives an indepth description of the Royal Navy in Lord Nelson's time.

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9781591146117, titled "Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1793-1815" | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Sweeping, encyclopedic, and full of powerful images, this large-format celebration of Lord Nelson's Royal Navy covers the design and construction of navel vessels as well as navigation, steering, battle tactics, and gunnery techniques employed by Nelson's men.

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Product Description: The River Class Frigates of the Second World war are featured in Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea almost as much as their predecessors, the Flower Class Corvettes, but they are far less well-known. Introduced in 1942, they played a crucial role in the convoys across the Atlantic and played a key role in anti-submarine warfare...read more
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9780948065736 | Natl Maritime Museum, September 1, 2006, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The River Class Frigates of the Second World war are featured in Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea almost as much as their predecessors, the Flower Class Corvettes, but they are far less well-known.

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Product Description: This handbook, created to provide naval officers in World War II with advice and instruction on all aspects of their job, captures the benevolent language of the day, when authority was respected.  It features an Officer’s Aide Memoire, with notes from officer training school; information for medical officers treating battle casualties afloat; counsel for captains taking command of their first ship; and guidance on handling ships and dealing with disobedience and mutiny. His...read more
by Brian Lavery (compiler)
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9781844860548 | Conway Maritime Pr, October 19, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This handbook, created to provide naval officers in World War II with advice and instruction on all aspects of their job, captures the benevolent language of the day, when authority was respected.

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Outlines the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently during the Second World War. This work includes the following chapters: Sea Terms; Navigation; Steering the Ship; Rigging; Anchors and Cables; Boatwork; Miscellaneous; and Ship Safety. It also includes black line illustrations.
by Brian Lavery (compiler)
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9781844860371 | Ill edition (Conway Maritime Pr, September 1, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Outlines the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently during the Second World War.

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