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Royal Navy, Vol 5
A History From the Earliest Times to 1900
By William Laird Clowes

One hundred years after its first printing, Sir William Clowes's superb seven volume study still retains its position as the preeminent history of the Royal Navy.

Volume 5 covers the Napoleonic Wars.

Available Formats: Softcover
Burning of Washington
The British Invasion of 1814
By Anthony S. Pitch
With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public buildings, setting off an inferno that illuminated the countryside ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Royal Navy, Vol 2
A History From the Earliest Times to 1900
By William Laird Clowes

One hundred years after its first printing, Sir William Clowes's superb seven volume study still retains its position as the preeminent history of the Royal Navy.

Volume 2 covers the period from James I to the Peace of Utrecht.

Available Formats: Softcover
Pete Ellis
An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880-1923
By Dirk Anthony Ballendorf and Merrill L. Bartlett
Few Marines have had more impact on the Corps's history than Pete Ellis, and none have been more controversial. This biography of the brilliant yet troubled Marine disputes many long-accepted but unsubstantiated accounts of his life and death. Ellis’s legacy as the father of amphibious warfare is fully examined by the authors, who searched through family papers, fitness reports, Japanese ...
Available Formats: Softcover