Great Britain - History
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Bravo Two Zero: The Harrowing True Story of a Special Forces Patrol Behind the Lines in Iraq
$9.99 Add to cartTheir mission: To take out the scuds. Eight went out. Five came back. Their story had been closed in secrecy. Until now. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best. In January 1991 a squ… [more below]
- Author: McNab, Andy
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 440218802
- Language: English
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The Mauritius Command
$15.95 Add to cartThe year is 1810 and Great Britain is again at war with France. British naval officer Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, living in domestic bliss with his young family–until… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #4
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541614
- Language: English
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Master and Commander
$15.95 Add to cartArdent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile–after a heated first encounter that nearly c
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #1
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541584
- Language: English
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The Golden Ocean
$25.99 Add to cartIn the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson a… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315371
- Language: English
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The Ionian Mission
$15.95 Add to cartJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy’s blockade of… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #8
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881741
- Language: English
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Hold Fast
$16.95 Read moreIt’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resi
- Series: A Thomas Grey Novel #1
- Author: Gelernter, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882470
- Language: English
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The Hundred Days
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #19
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021713
- Language: English
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The Kings & Queens of Britain
$19.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully illustrated, full-color hardback, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy, from Alfred the Great to King Charles III.
For more than 1,000 years t- Series: Arcturus Science & History Collection
- Author: Senker, Cath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1789505712
- Language: English
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The Commodore
$15.95 Read moreHaving survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at … [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #17
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021551
- Language: English
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Where Is the Tower of London?
$7.99 Read moreThe Tower of London holds almost a thousand years’ worth of secrets
The Tower of London draws more than 2 million visitors a year Almost 1,000 years old and first built by William the Conqueror in 1- Series: Where Is?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1524786063
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies During the War of Jenkins’ Ear
$29.95 Add to cart2023 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writers Society of America
Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military hi- Author: Chapman, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124314
- Language: English
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SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Explosive True Story of the SAS Patrol That Got Away
$19.99 Add to cartThe untold story of an elite SAS patrol behind enemy lines during the Persian Gulf War is vividly revealed in this gripping chronicle.
Iraq, January, 1991. Three patrols–Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zer- Author: Powell, Des
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1504076516
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
$44.99 Read moreThis beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day.
Edited by esteemed historian Kenneth O.- Series: Oxford Illustrated Histories
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199544751
- Language: English
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar
$17.99 Add to cart“Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist
Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060753625
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of Britain: 2021 Edition
$20.99 Add to cartA new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.
The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its peo- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198841116
- Language: English
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Grounded: A Journey Into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural world, exploring how the sacred can be accessed by looking t
- Author: Canton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063212145
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093080
- Language: English
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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain’s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.
When Britain voted to leave the- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872197
- Language: English
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The King’s Coat
$19.95 Add to cartVolume #1 in the Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures series. At the height of the American Revolution, our hero Alan Lewrie (seventeen-year-old bastard son of Sir Hugo Willoughby) has been shipped off to the
- Series: Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures #1
- Author: Lambdin, Dewey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1590137566
- Language: English
