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I juni 1522 seglade ett antal inhyrda fartyg från Lübeck in i Slätbaken i Östergötland. Deras ankomst blev startskottet för den statliga svenska örlogsflottan. Under de 500 år som gått sedan dess har flottan verkat under de mest ombytliga förhållanden. Teknikskiften och föränderliga politiska landskap har tvingat fram anpassningar till ständigt nya förutsättningar.
I den här boken följer vi den svenska flottans utveckling över seklerna en berättelse om fartyg och besättningar i krig och i fred. Här skildras såväl klassiska sjöslag som konvojer, transporter och patrulleringar. Fartygstyper passerar revy: linjeskepp, monitorer, ubåtar och kustkorvetter. Alla utgör de sin tids svar på hur sjökrig förs mest effektivt. Berättelsen inrymmer även de människor som levt och verkat inom flottan som befäl, sjömän, varvsarbetare, lotsar eller kartografer och även deras familjemedlemmar.
Sjömakt och sjöfolk är den första skildringen sedan 1940-talet av den svenska örlogsflottans historia och baseras på omfattande ny forskning. Stoffet återges livfullt av historikerna AnnaSara Hammar och Lars Ericson Wolke, båda med djup kunskap i marin historia.
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Whiskey on the rocks ... Vad vet vi egentligen om den sovjetiska ubåt som gick på grund i Karlskrona skärgård hösten 1981? Minnen och berättelser har fått växa under decennier och så småningom utvecklats till nutida myter. Kan vi med säkerhet säga något om ubåtens uppdrag? Ja, det kan vi, baserat på material som fram till nu har varit hemligstämplat.
Försvarsmakten har nyligen hävt sekretessen på ett betydande material rörande U 137. Michael Fredholm har dessutom gått igenom alla relevanta sovjetiska doktriner och dokument, främst med avseende på operationer i Östersjön. Fram träder en helt ny bild av händelseförloppet vid incidenten med U 137!
Boken är skriven av en verklig veteran inom svensk underrättelsetjänst. Michael Fredholm är utbildad i militär ryska och har en unikt bred och mångårig erfarenhet av den samlade svenska underrättelsetjänsten.
Ryssen kommer! : om den olycksalige landshövdingen Ramse och den ryska galärflottans tillslag mot Holmön och Umeå i september 1714
Inbunden, Svenska, 2019
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Stora nordiska kriget var nu inne på sitt fjortonde år. Efter den ödesdigra svenska förlusten vid Poltava 1709 har den ryske tsaren, Peter den store, inriktat sig på att tilltvinga sig makten över Östersjön. Finland har ockuperats och ryssarna söker nu en gynnsam uppgörelse med svenskarna. En mindre galärflotta ges i uppdrag att rekognosera farlederna på den svenska sidan. På Holmön, mitt i Norra Kvarken, tillfångatas sju män. Dagen därpå – klockan sex lördag morgon den 18 september 1714 – går ryssarna in i Umeälven. För att undvika massaker flyr svenskarna. Femton timmar senare står Umeå i lågor. I och med det ryska tillslaget mot Holmön och brandskattningen av Umeå inleds en dramatisk period i Västerbottens historia. Mot bakgrund av Stora nordiska krigets många blodiga slag kan denna händelse, jämförelsevis, anses som marginell. Men för befolkningen och dess landshövding får den nog så allvarliga följder. Trots detta har händelserna blivit styvmoderligt uppmärksammade – märkligt nog även i den lokala historieskrivningen. Det var inget mindre än en katastrof som drabbat umeborna. Praktiskt taget inget fanns kvar av stadens byggnader: bostäder, ladugårdar, stallar, bodarna nere vid älven och andra förrådsbyggnader innanför tullstaketet. Även stadens skolbyggnad var lagd i aska. Umeborna och deras inhysta österbottniska flyktingar blev nu husvilla. Två saker fanns dock att glädjas åt: Det gamla residenset och stadskyrkan hade undgått eldens lågor. För landshövding Anders Erik Ramse innebar händelserna dessutom en rent personlig katastrof, då han blev beskylld för att utan motstånd ha övergett staden. Några menade att det varit klokt av honom att undvika konfrontation med den överlägsna fienden, medan andra föredrog att definiera flykten som ett utslag av ren och skär feghet. Men hur skulle Umeås knappt fyra hundra dåligt beväpnade försvarare ha stått sig mot ett par tusen välmotiverade ryska anfallare? Att svenskarna dessutom handlat i enlighet med kungens påbud om att ”spara manskapet”, var inget som hans belackare ville ta till sig. Genom att ha lämnat staden öppen för fienden förstördes visserligen materiella tillgångar till stora värden. Och några personer blev tyvärr tillfångatagna och i fångenskap förda österut. Men ingen människa hade kommit till fysisk skada. Ramse beskylldes för att ha agerat i samråd med fienden och ställdes senare inför rätta anklagad för ämbetsmissbruk. Han avsattes från sin tjänst, placerades i häkte och dömdes senare skyldig till overksamhet. Efter Karl XIIs död kunde den nya drottningen, Ulrika Eleonora, frige Ramse.
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Omöjlig ubåt : stridsberättelser från ubåtsjakten och det säkerhetspolitiska läget under 1980-talet
Inbunden, Svenska, 2014
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Kvällen den 27 oktober 1981 går den sovjetiska ubåten U 137 på grund i Karlskrona skärgård. Nästa morgon tror en fiskare knappt sina ögon när han i dimman ser något stort och grönsvart höja sig över en klippa. På Sydkustens Örlogsbas möts observationen av misstro, men snart kan man konstatera att en ubåt med rysktalande besättning sitter fast i Gåsefjärden, djupt inne på svenskt territorium.
Den uppseendeväckande nyheten briserar med full kraft i världens medier. Hur kunde detta ske? Vem bär ansvaret? Och hur ska händelsen hanteras?
Den svenska ubåtskrisen skapade till en början nationell enighet och beredskapsanda, men ledde i förlängningen till en djup splittring i synen på det svenska förvaret.
Författaren och historikern Wilhelm Agrell skildrar initierat alla turer kring U 137 och de ubåtskränkningar som under 1980-talet påstods äga rum i svenska farvatten. Sida för sida framträder den föga smickrande bilden av hur feltolkade observationer resulterar i förhastade slutsatser - och massmedialt haveri.
Boken ingår i serien Sveriges dramatiska historia.
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År 1522 köpte Gustav Vasa ett antal örlogsfartyg från Hansastaden Lu beck och tog dem till Sverige. Det blev startskottet för den svenska flottan. Militära styrkor till sjöss hade funnits tidigare men de hade organiserats av olika aktörer: kungen, riksföreståndaren, höga adelsmän och biskopar, men även av städerna och bönderna. Nu skulle försvaret istället organiseras och ledas av centralmakten. Det ledde till att Sverige fick en särställning i Östersjön.
Den 7 juni 2022 firar den svenska flottan 500 år. Många omvälvande världshändelser har präglat flottans historia, och i Klart skepp! ges de liv. Vi deltar i sjöslag och maktstrider, beundrar skeppsbyggeri och galjoner samt analyserar teknikens, handelns och politikens roll. Inte minst dyker vi ner i havet och utforskar vrakens vidunderliga värld. Vi mäter maktfullkomliga kungar och egensinniga amiraler, hjältemodiga kvinnor och missförstådda militärer, visionära samlare och gossar i sjömanskostym. Och så tar vi oss en blick in i framtiden.
Klart skepp! är Sjöhistoriskas Vänners årsbok 2022-2023 och är rikt illustrerad med foton, målningar och kartor. Genom femton vitt skilda texter träder en fascinerande berättelse fram - berättelsen om flottans roll i Sveriges historia; om havet, människorna och makten.
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I boken beskrivs svenska mätningar av gammastrålning från den ryska ubåten som hösten 1981 gick på grund i Karlskrona skärgård. Båten stod så hårt på grundet att trots idoga försök lyckades den inte ta sig loss. Av praktiska skäl låg en svensk kustbevakningsbåt tätt bredvid den sovjetiska ubåten. Under däck i den svenska båten befann sig författaren till denna bok för att med hjälp av avancerad kärnfysikalisk utrustning kunna fastlägga vad för sorts gammastrålning som ubåten utsände. Strålningen visade sig komma från uran. Detta blev en stor händelse. En gammal ubåt från 50-talet bestyckad med kärnvapen på grund nära Karlskrona marinbas.
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I juni 1522 seglade ett antal inhyrda fartyg från Lübeck in i Slätbaken i Östergötland. Deras ankomst blev startskottet för den statliga svenska örlogsflottan. Under de 500 år som gått sedan dess har flottan verkat under de mest ombytliga förhållanden. Teknikskiften och föränderliga politiska landskap har tvingat fram anpassningar till ständigt nya förutsättningar.
I den här boken följer vi den svenska flottans utveckling över seklerna en berättelse om fartyg och besättningar i krig och i fred. Här skildras såväl klassiska sjöslag som konvojer, transporter och patrulleringar. Fartygstyper passerar revy: linjeskepp, monitorer, ubåtar och kustkorvetter. Alla utgör de sin tids svar på hur sjökrig förs mest effektivt. Berättelsen inrymmer även de människor som levt och verkat inom flottan som befäl, sjömän, varvsarbetare, lotsar eller kartografer och även deras familjemedlemmar.
Sjömakt och sjöfolk är den första skildringen sedan 1940-talet av den svenska örlogsflottans historia och baseras på omfattande ny forskning. Stoffet återges livfullt av historikerna AnnaSara Hammar och Lars Ericson Wolke, båda med djup kunskap i marin historia.
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Del 151 - Duel
Beaufighter vs German Flak Ships
North Sea and Mediterranean 1941–45
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
185 kr
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An illustrated study of RAF Coastal Command’s deployment of the Beaufighter against German supply lines in 1941 and the long-running ‘arms race’ with Kriegsmarine Flak ships that followed.Crucial German shipping lines faced a new threat in 1941 when RAF Coastal Command debuted the iconic long-range Beaufighter. The aircraft and its subsequent Mk VIC and Mk X versions gave the Allies a tough, relatively fast and very hard-hitting platform for air attack on German convoys, and so it became essential for the Kriegsmarine to fit ever-heavier anti-aircraft batteries to its escort vessels, and even to develop specialist Flak vessels. In this compelling study, naval aviation historian Matthew Willis chronicles the little-explored arms race that saw RAF Coastal Command and the Kriegsmarine engaged in a fierce battle of one-upmanship until war’s end. New artwork, rare archive photography and contemporary records of Beaufighter operations add depth to fascinating historical accounts, including the actions of the famous North Coates Strike Wing against shipping in the North Sea and the exploits of Beaufighter units tasked with severing Rommel’s all-important supply lines.
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The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his enemy.During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear, fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone is utterly debilitating.Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book. Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran.'Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific - the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary - into terms we mortals can grasp' Tom Hanks
Through the Yellow Visor
The Life and (Mis)Adventures of a US Navy Fighter Pilot
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
253 kr
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Naval Ship Models of World War II in 1/1250 and 1/1200 Scales
Enhancements, Conversions & Scratch Building
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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The origins of 1/1250 and 1/200 scale models can be traced back to the first years of the twentieth century and their use as identification aids by the military during the First World War. When peace came the manufacturers aimed their increasingly sophisticated products at collectors, and ever since then acquiring, enhancing, modifying or scratch-building miniature ship models has been an avidly pursued hobby around the world.This new book focusses on models of the ships of the Second World War, probably the most popular subject for miniature model collectors, and the author, a well-known modeller himself, addresses all the practical issues that might confront those many collectors who like to enhance, convert, and modify their models, or even scratch-build models of ships not commercially available.The book covers both Allied and Axis warships, naval airplanes, merchant conversions and even an Italian armed schooner, and provides historic and technical information on the ships represented as well as practical advice on modelling them. The latter is extensive with twenty-five chapters covering everything from initial production techniques such as spin casting, silicon mould casting, resin casting, die-casting, plastic mould injection, and 3D printing through techniques for enhancing and modifying models to eventually researching and scratch-building an uncommon ship or type. The focus is always on particular vessels and the vast array covered by the author builds into a fascinating panorama of the vessels that fought across the world's oceans in that era.The combination of intriguing background and historical information, combined with detailed practical information and more than 300 stunning photographs will make this book irresistible to any collector or modeller and, indeed, to anyone with an interest in the navies of the Second World War.
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This is the 5th, revised and updated, edition of Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.The sea has always provided the basis for mankind's prosperity and security. With the emergence of an increasingly globalised world trading system in the early part of the 21st century, this became ever more obvious. Contemporary conditions have therefore required navies to adapt and to expand the range of their interests, activities and responsibilities. The Houthi assault on international shipping in the Red Sea and the need to monitor sanctions and ‘dark fleet’ operations shows that these tasks are important and developing fast. Even so, and especially with the re-emergence of potentially de-stabilising great power competition, traditional hard power naval concerns still predominate. This book investigates the consequences of all this for the developing nature, composition and functions of the world's navies, and provides a guide for the changing but crucial role of seapower in the second quarter of the 21st century. This edition contains new material on the Russo-Ukraine and Gaza wars, tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the Arctic and North Atlantic, the emerging concept of ‘seabed control,’ as well as the extent that technological innovations and other recent strategic developments are challenging traditional concepts of maritime strategy and the roles of navies.This book is essential reading for students and practitioners of naval power, maritime security and naval history, and highly recommended for students of strategic studies, international security and International Relations.
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This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft. It also includes many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential impact on aircraft carrier design and operations can be explained. Every type, even unsuccessful single prototypes, is described and the majority are illustrated by photographs, many of which come from the author’s own collection. The 50 most significant aircraft also have detailed 3-view drawings. The book describes over 400 different types of aircraft built by over 100 different manufacturers to offer the most detailed coverage of Royal Navy aircraft ever produced.Research for the book took over forty years and reference material included Admiralty Archives and an array of material in the public domain including manufacturer’s data, individual aircraft pilot’s notes and a wealth of published sources. David Hobbs is uniquely well placed to write this book having served as a pilot in the RN for thirty-three years and retired with the rank of Commander. He flew both fixed and rotary-wing aircraft and his log book contains 2300 flying hours with 807 day and night deck landings. He served in seven British aircraft carriers, flew over 20 of the aircraft types described in this book and spent four years in the RN Director General (Aircraft) Department where he was closely involved with Sea Harrier carrier trials, introduced new visual landing aids for night recoveries and liaised with the US Navy on carrier operating techniques. This is his eleventh book for Seaforth Publishing.
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For the first two decades after the Cold War, Russian naval power hardly featured in the Euro-Atlantic community’s strategic thinking. This began to change in the mid-2010s, as the idea that the Russian navy poses a threat to NATO began to gain ground. That threat took shockingly real form in February 2022, when Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine.The sea in Russian strategy is the first sustained examination of Russian maritime power in the period since the fall of the Soviet Union. It brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russia's naval strategy and capacities.At a time of mounting tensions, which some observers have named the ‘Fourth Battle of the Atlantic’, the book offers an informed and nuanced discussion, taking into account the view from Moscow and how this differs from western perspectives. It sketches a trajectory of Russia’s power at sea and reflects on current capabilities and problems, as well as Moscow’s strategic planning for the future.
Del 408 - Campaign
Battle of the Atlantic (1)
The U-Boat Campaign against Britain, 1939–41
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
215 kr
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The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the British Royal Navy nor the German Kriegsmarine were prepared for another war in the North Atlantic. Having defeated the U-boats in World War I, the Royal Navy was confident it would succeed again. This was quickly shown to be a delusion, as neither the scale of forces available nor their tactics were sufficient. The Germans were even less prepared, having only a small number of U-boats and fewer still that were large enough for operations in the Atlantic. The Germans attempted to win a tonnage war against Allied shipping, with well-trained and bold U-boat commanders enjoying some brilliant successes. However, torpedo problems and the shortage of U-boats prevented the Germans from inflicting crippling losses, even though the British found it impossible to protect all shipping, primarily because of a lack of convoy escorts and inadequate air cover.Respected naval historian Mark Stille examines the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and German U-boats in the first 15 months of World War II. Featuring maps, diagrams, photographs and stunning battlescene artworks, this book vividly brings to life the weapons, personalities and tactics of the opposing sides.
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A fascinating story of a key turning point in the War in the Mediterranean, as the island of Malta was thrown a vital lifeline. Since 1940, the island of Malta had been a thorn in the Axis' side. It sat astride the direct sea route between Italy and its North African colonies, and from 1941 the Royal Navy had used the island as a base for its attacks on Axis convoys. The island, though, relied on convoys to survive, and from early 1941 these came under increasingly heavy air and submarine attack. As the situation became critical in 1942, the decision was made to send through a heavily protected convoy, carrying fuel and supplies, in an effort to save the island. This mission was codenamed Operation Pedestal. This fascinating work describes how, after leaving Britain on 2 August 1942, the convoy was repeatedly pummeled by Axis air and submarine attacks as it ground its way towards Malta, with most of the merchant ships sunk during the passage, along with an aircraft carrier and two cruisers. It also explores how despite this grim toll, the sacrifice was worth it.The specially commissioned illustrations in this work cover the progress of the convoy step by step, the submarine and surface naval actions during Pedestal’s voyage, the Stuka attack on the carrier Indomitable and the air attacks against the convoy, and the broader strategic situation in the Western Mediterranean. The result is a unique visual exploration of one of the most famous episodes of the war in this theatre.
336 kr
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Red Star Over the Pacific, Third Edition
China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
389 kr
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The latest edition of Red Star over the Pacific explores how China’s growing sea power—shaped by both Western and Chinese strategic thought—threatens U.S. maritime dominance in Asia and demands urgent adaptation by American sea services.In this third edition of Red Star over the Pacific, authors Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes assess how the rise of Chinese sea power challenges American primacy in maritime Asia. Drawing on Alfred Thayer Mahan’s sea-power theories, now popular with Chinese practitioners and thinkers, along with Chinese theorists such as Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong, they consider how strategic thought about the sea shapes Beijing’s deliberations and examine how the Chinese navy has translated strategic ideas into operational concepts, tactics, and capabilities. It pays great attention to the missile threat while acknowledging the disruptive potential of emerging technologies like drones, AI, and orbital capabilities. The authors conclude that an age of strategic competition is upon Asia and that America must adapt quickly to prevail. The third edition updates the narrative, adds substantial new material, and shows just how much the world has changed around the American sea services in a such a short time.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year ‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose' THE TIMES On 6 June 1944 when the Allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit England in summertime to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all of sudden death, such as no exercise had prepared them for.In Sword, veteran chronicler of war Max Hastings explores with extraordinary vividness the actions of the Commando brigade and Montgomery’s 3rd Infantry and 6th Airborne divisions on and around a single beach. He describes their frustrations, hopes, loves and fears through the apparently interminable years training and preparing in England, then their triumphs and tragedies on the beach and beyond. Here are the airborne assaults on the Caen Canal bridge and Merville Battery, the battles on the shoreline and against the German strongpoints inland, narrated and explained with all the insights that Hastings’ decades of study, veterans’ interviews and new archive research enable him to deploy.The book offers a searching analysis of why British troops did not reach Caen on 6 June, as Montgomery had promised Churchill that they would – and the story of the brigadier who was sacked for that failure. There is also a host of personal portraits of key figures from Commando leader Lord Lovat, famously brave but supremely arrogant, to Colonel Jim Eadie, whose tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry repulsed a panzer division in the last hours of 6 June, and some of the humbler participants to whom extraordinary things happened.This is the story of D-Day as you have never read it before, with the blend of narrative, analysis and human insight that made Max Hastings’ last book Operation Biting, like many of his earlier works, a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller.
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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India … A book of beauty’ – Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian‘A gripping read, full of fascinating insights … deeply moving … Brilliant’ Adam Zamoyski'A striking success' The Times'Fresh, original and brilliantly vivid' TelegraphAt about 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 15-millimetre French musket round fired from of the Redoutable, a distance of some 70 feet to HMS Victory’s quarter deck. It fractured his left shoulder, pierced his lung and emerged to sever the spine.In this fresh and vibrant retelling of the battle of Trafalgar, Paul O’Keeffe traces the course of events both prior and subsequent to that fatal shot: from 6.30 in the morning, as the British ships began their approach towards the enemy fleet, until the cessation of firing that followed the apocalyptic destruction of the French 74-gun Achille at 5.45 in the afternoon.We also learn about the battle’s dramatic aftermath: how a violent storm destroyed the surviving French and Spanish ships; how news of victory travelled and was celebrated in London; how Nelson’s body was brought home and given a spectacular funeral.Paying meticulous attention to little explored details, O’Keeffe gives us a front-row view of events. Gripping and immersive, this is a unique account of Trafalgar for a new generation of readers.‘If you think you know it all about the battle of Trafalgar, think again. Paul O’Keeffe’s new book is full of fascinating information … His book is a must’ Nicholas Best, author of Trafalgar
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A narrative of brief compass yet immense force, Yoshida Mitsuru's work makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific War. Long a favourite in Japan, it was not fully translated into English until 1985 when the hardcover edition was first published in the United States to rave reviews. In April 1945 the fabled battleship Yamato was the centrepiece of a last desperate sortie by the Japanese Navy. A young ensign on the bridge during the climactic battle against American airplanes, Yoshida writes in prose that is at once terse and evocative, spare and eloquent, raising his experience on the doomed ship to the level of existential tragedy.Translator Richard Minear gives us a Requiem faithful to the original, its language vigorous and idiomatic. His informative introduction describes the work's historic and political context and Yoshida's difficulties with occupation censors. Minear comments on matters of form and style and quotes extensively from Yoshida's postwar essays, which trace the author's avid and continual search for the meaning of peace beyond "the crucible of nothingness we call battle."Like other great war stories, the book transcends the particulars of disaster and the divisiveness of war. In the words of the translator, Yoshida's "ultimate concern is less bombs and bullets than human nature, less death than life." His remarkable insights will stir the memories of others who served and help those who did not reach a new level of understanding.
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The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial to the nation's survival using their speed and expertise to evade Nazi warships, raiders and U-boats.Initially operating alone, but increasingly relying on Royal Navy protected convoys, these key elements of the Merchant Navy plied the oceans and seas despite mounting losses, throughout the war years.This superbly researched book describes numerous dramatic incidents. Some ended in disaster such as the New Zealand Shipping Company's Turakina which was sunk after a running battle with the German raider Orion. Others were triumphs for example Operation Substance when six fast cargo liners succeeded against all the odds in reaching besieged Malta with vital supplies.The common denominations in all these historic voyages were the courage and skilled seamanship of the Merchant Navy crews. As Running The Gauntlet vividly illustrates, their contribution to victory, too long overlooked, cannot be overstated.
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An in-depth look at the battles at Kokoda, Milne Bay and Buna-Gona, which saw the Japanese battle the Australians and Americans on Papua.The Japanese invasion of, and ejection from, the Territory of Papua was a six-month long campaign. From July to September 1942, the Japanese, having landed at Buna, advanced towards Port Moresby along the Kokoda Trail (or Track). They were opposed, at first, by Australian militia and later by Australian veterans of the war in North Africa. In September, a Japanese operation intended to support the advance was defeated at Milne Bay. By November, the Japanese had been driven back to their starting point, where, in a two-month siege, American troops joined the Australians to eliminate the Japanese beachhead at Buna. With detailed maps, colourful artwork and period images, historian and Kokoda expert Dr Peter Williams examines the strategies and tactics of both sides, along with the limitations terrain, disease and weather imposed on the armies. It also covers the struggles of the American–Australian alliance, both at high command and on the battlefield. Along with Guadalcanal, the Papuan campaign marks the end of the Japanese advance in the Pacific, and the beginning of the Allied counter-offensive.
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This insightful illustrated study investigates how the Royal Navy lost two battleships and three aircraft carriers to German U-boats during 1939–42.During World War II, over half of Britain’s capital ship losses were due to U-boats, as Germany’s submarines sought to deplete the Royal Navy’s powerful surface fleet. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside archive photographs, this study explains how Germany’s submarines sank five of Britain’s major surface vessels in four years of conflict at sea.Aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was sunk by U-29 on 17 September 1939 during anti-submarine patrols. On 14 October 1939, U-47 penetrated the Scapa Flow defences and sank battleship HMS Royal Oak. On 14 November 1941, U-81 sank HMS Ark Royal as the aircraft carrier returned to Gibraltar. On 25 November 1941, U-331 sank HMS Barham off Egypt. The final British capital ship to be sunk by German submarines was carrier HMS Eagle, torpedoed by U-73 en route to Malta on 11 August 1942.In this book, Mark Lardas charts the origins, development and combat performance of the U-boats in the Kriegsmarine’s efforts to attack British capital ships, and the Royal Navy’s efforts to counter the submarine threat to its battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers. As well as the five encounters that led to sinkings, he examines the ‘near-misses’ that saw Royal Navy capital ships get the better of the U-boats.
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Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991.Featuring eight plates of specially commissioned artwork alongside carefully chosen archive photographs, this study charts the history and appearance of the Soviet Union’s naval infantry, from the October Revolution to the end of the Soviet era.Although Russian naval infantry achieved fame during the October Revolution they were quickly disbanded, only being re-established in 1939. Following the Axis invasion of 1941 some 500,000 Soviet Navy personnel served on land, fighting in the defence of Leningrad, Odessa and Sevastopol and the recapture of the Crimea in 1943–44; Soviet naval troops also participated in the invasion of Manchuria in 1945.During the Cold War era the Soviet Union developed an amphibious assault capability that had a vital strategic role – to capture an aggressor’s geographical exits to the oceans and thereby forestall threats to Soviet submarine bases. Naval infantry forces could deploy a wealth of firepower assets, while the use of amphibious ships, hovercraft and helicopters aided their rapid deployment, even amid ice-bound terrain in the Arctic. All of these developments are described and illustrated in absorbing detail in this study.
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Del 346 - New Vanguard
Nagato-class Battleships 1920–46
The Imperial Japanese Navy's super-dreadnoughts
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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An illustrated study of Japan’s Nagato-class battleships: the IJN’s powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernized to fight in World War II. Illustrated with the author’s much-acclaimed 3D reconstructions, naval researcher Stefan Draminski offers a technical and operational study of Nagato and Mutsu, Japan’s most powerful battleships of the dreadnought era. They were the world’s first battleships to mount 16-inch guns, and signalled Japan’s determination to build a fleet that qualitatively outmatched the world’s leading navies. Entering service in the 1920s, they would be heavily modernized before the outbreak of the Pacific War, which Nagato would start as Yamamoto’s flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack. Both ships were present at the Battle of Midway, and though Mutsu would be sunk by a magazine explosion in 1943, Nagato fought at Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf, before being modified again and moored at Yokosuka as an antiaircraft battery. The last Japanese battleship afloat on VJ-Day, Nagato was sunk in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Crossroads nuclear test. Drawing on Japanese-language sources and original documentation, this is a concisely detailed account of these formidable battleships, superbly illustrated with archive photos and artwork showing the ships through their careers and in action.