Dan Van der Vat

A naval historian describes the British Navy's disastrous attempt to get to Constantinople through the Dardanelles, and analyzes Winston Churchill's response to the obstacles faced during the operation that marked a turning point in World War I.

Winston Churchill's greatest failure

The Dardanelles disaster

Robin Gardiner

l'enigma di un disastro voluto e di una truffa colossale : il vero Titanic non è mai partito!

I due Titanic

Uses documents from the Naval Historical Center to reassess the war in the Pacific and reveal the long history of conflict between Japanese imperialism and American "manifest destiny"

The U.S.-Japanes Naval War 1941-1945

Pacific Campaign

Biography of Nazi leader Albert Speer who served Hitler as a minister of wartime production, looking at Speer's knowledge of Holocaust activities, discussing his personal role in the exploitation of slave labor, and questioning his denial of war crimes.

The Life and Lies of Albert Speer

The Good Nazi

The story of the Royal Navy through two World Wars and countless minor conflicts.

The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century

Standard of Power

A r-examination of the mysteries surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, with some startling new theories about the ship itself,it's sister ship the accident prone Olympic,the owners White Star and J.P.Morgan the financier controlling it.

The Riddle of the Titanic

Extensive research in the American, British, Canadian, and German archives reveals the battles between the U-boats, the convoys, and their escorts in the Atlantic

World War II's Great Struggle at Sea

The Atlantic Campaign

Michele Whitby

Eel Pie Island, the only inhabited island on the River Thames, has been described as "120 drunks clinging to a mudbank.” A tiny place, just 600 yards long, 150 feet at its widest, and home to a few dozen homes and businesses, the island has enjoyed two periods of special fame: in the 19th century, it was a popular resort for Charles Dickens and other Londoners who came by newfangled steamboats to spend the day at the grand hotel that dominated the island till 1969. In the 1950s and 1960s, it became a hip venue for England’s hottest jazz, R&B, and rock bands. All over Britain and beyond, Eel Pie Island and its famous concerts are remembered with a nostalgic, and sometimes knowing, smile. This book tells the island’s story from the Stone Age to The Rolling Stones and beyond, illustrating every period with a wealth of rare images and atmospheric contemporary photographs.

Eel Pie Island

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by its own officers and men.The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few people are aware that Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter became the only man in history to sink his own navy because of a misleading report in a British newspaper; that the Royal Navy guessed his intention but could do nothing to thwart it; that the sinking produced the last casualties and the last prisoners of the war; and that fragments of the Kaiser's fleet are probably on the moon.This is the remarkable story of the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. It contains previously unused German archive material, eye-witness accounts and the recollections of survivors, as well as many contemporary photos which capture the awesome spectacle of the finest ships of the time being deliberately sunk by their own crew.

The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

Grand Scuttle

Nicolaas Guns

Beschrijving van de Japanse verrassingsaanval op Pearl Harbor op 7 december 1941 in woord en beeld.

dag der schande

Pearl Harbor

Albert Speer

Explores the life of this seemingly penitent participant in the Holocaust who, in fact, ordered the eviction of 75,000 German Jews

Dan Van der Vat

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