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9781849162616 | Quercus, July 26, 2016, cover price $19.99
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9780393239928 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 15, 2016, cover price $35.00
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9781622319886 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, February 5, 2016), cover price $44.99
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9781847244505 | Quercus, October 30, 2008, cover price $14.99
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9781623654795 | Quercus, July 7, 2015, cover price $15.99
Product Description: Memory ImprovementHow to Improve Your Memory and the Health of Your BrainFor only a short period of time get this book for a discounted price! Read on your PC, Mac, Smart Phone, Tablet or Kindle Device. This book contains steps and ideas on how to Help you stay mentally sharp by improving your memory...read more
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9781514835425 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 6, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Memory ImprovementHow to Improve Your Memory and the Health of Your BrainFor only a short period of time get this book for a discounted price!
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9781512351033 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 12, 2015, cover price $7.99
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9781118486276 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, January 27, 2015), cover price $48.99
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9780393243147 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 28, 2014), cover price $35.00
Product Description: Nathan Werner just got drafted. They give him a couple weeks to get his affairs in orderâeasy when youâve dropped out of school, alienated your friends, and never had a job or a family life to begin withâthen itâs off to basic training...read more
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9781482675153 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 13, 2013, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Nathan Werner just got drafted.
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9781605982885 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, March 12, 2012), cover price $15.95
On 1 June 1794, after a week of skirmishing, the French and British fleets came to close quarters in the northwest Atlantic, some 400 miles off the coast of Brittany. No battle had ever been fought so far from land. The French, in ships painted blood-red and bearing banners proclaiming 'la Republique ou la mort!' were escorting a American grain convoy to Brest to feed a starving population; the British, under the command of Lord Howe, a radical innovator and tactical genius, were bent on destroying the battle fleet of the nascent French Republic. Both sides would claim victory in the ensuing battle; and both had reason to do so. For the French, 'le combat de prairial' was a strategic success since the convoy and its precious cargo made it safely through. But this outcome came at a heavy material cost. In numerical terms 'the Glorious First of June' was the greatest British naval victory over her oldest enemy for more than 100 years: 6 French ships were captured and another sunk; 4,200 French sailors were killed and 3,300 wounded - 10% of their entire maritime workforce. These were physical blows from which the French navy would never truly recover. In The Glorious First of June Sam Willis not only tells, with thrilling immediacy and masterly clarity, the gripping story of an epic and complex battle, he also explains its critical importance for the development of British naval tactics and the concomitant growth of British sea-power. For it was in this battle that Lord Howe experimented successfully with the sophisticated line-breaking manoeuvres which, finessed and perfected by Horatio Nelson, would bring Britain to the apogee of its maritime supremacy with the defeat of Napoleon just 11 years later. With The Fighting Temeraire and The Admiral Benbow, The Glorious First of June forms part of 'The Hearts of Oak trilogy' of scholarly but accessible histories that, between them, encapsulate Britain's maritime achievement during the age of sail.
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9781849160384 | Gardners Books, September 29, 2011, cover price $41.20 | About this edition: On 1 June 1794, after a week of skirmishing, the French and British fleets came to close quarters in the northwest Atlantic, some 400 miles off the coast of Brittany.
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9781849160391 | Quercus, April 1, 2014, cover price $19.99
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9781849160377 | Quercus, July 26, 2016, cover price $19.99
Product Description: A stunning collections of 150 large-scale paintings, drawings, photographs and ship plans that tell the story of naval warfare from the first iron and steam warships to the deadly U-boat and aircraft carriers of the Second World War...read more
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9781847242624 | Quercus, July 30, 2008, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A stunning collections of 150 large-scale paintings, drawings, photographs and ship plans that tell the story of naval warfare from the first iron and steam warships to the deadly U-boat and aircraft carriers of the Second World War.
Hardcover:
9781843833673 | Boydell Pr, April 17, 2008, cover price $49.95
Product Description: This stunning collection of over 170 large-format colour illustrations includes paintings of ships at sea, in action, in convoy, and in siege; architectural drawings; battle diagrams; sea charts and signals; portraits of leading figures in naval history; and details of guns, sails, and life below deck...read more
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9781847242037 | Quercus, November 1, 2007, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This stunning collection of over 170 large-format colour illustrations includes paintings of ships at sea, in action, in convoy, and in siege; architectural drawings; battle diagrams; sea charts and signals; portraits of leading figures in naval history; and details of guns, sails, and life below deck.
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