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Sir Winston Churchill is often referred to as the greatest Briton and is certainly one of the most important and central figures of the 20th century. Containing both his many pitfalls and triumphs, this graphic biography follows Churchill’s upbringing, through his military exploits in World War I and beyond.

Best known for his role in the World War II, Churchill ...

Men at Sea is an opus of eight spectacularly drawn dark, poetic stories freely adapted by Riff Reb’s.

This collection offers:

• “A Smile of Fortune,” from Joseph Conrad
• “The Sea Horses” and “The Shamraken Homeward Bound,” from William Hope Hodgson
• “The Galley Slaves” and “The Far South,” from Pierre Mac Orlan
• “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” from Edgar Allan Poe
• “The ...

“Sudden death was everywhere. . .”

On the morning of March 19, 1945, about fifty miles off the coast of Japan, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin was bombed by Japanese aircraft. Two heavy bombs penetrated the hangar deck killing everyone inside. The planes on the flight deck were knocked into the air, their whirling propellers smashing gas tanks which spilled ...

The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941–1942 was extraordinary in its ambition, for their aim was to advance across the entire region. They clashed with an array of forces in a series of lightning campaigns that included famous episodes like the raid on Pearl Harbor and the conquest of Singapore. In this vivid photographic history, Jowett covers the ...

To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity—such was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the Civil War era. While he ranks with the foremost contributors to the American naval tradition and is known as the "father of American naval ordnance", personal conflicts and the lack of major victories at sea nearly ...