David Armine Howarth

An account of the year's events in England, from the death of Edward the Confessor, through the struggle for succession, to the Christmas coronation of William of Normandy, focuses on the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings

The Year of the Conquest

1066

Heroes of Nowadays

The story of Jan Baalsrud's incredible escape from the Nazi's when his team of Norwegian commandos are betrayed and ambushed.

We Die Alone

Crucial to control of the North Atlantic during the Second World War was knowledge of the weather: for the wolf packs and German raiders that lurked in these bitter seas this was the vital ingredient that would enable them to cut the vital arteries that took convoys north to Murmansk and west to Britain.

The Sledge Patrol

The Shetland Bus

No ship, large or small, goes to sea without some benefit of Britain's illustrious four-hundred-year-old tradition of seafaring enterprise and ingenuity. As he did in his highly successful earlier books, Waterloo and Trafalgar, David Howarth has woven together the colored threads of a vast tapestry figured with men, treasure hoards, unexplored coastlines and wild and smoky battles. Sovereign of the Seas begins as a book about British sea power and turns into the story of the British Empire and the tale of the adventuresome men--the admirals, captains, explorers, seamen and pirates--who manned the ships and mastered the waves that the world came to regard as Britain's own. Sovereign of the Seas does not assume a deep knowledge of maritime history. Each period--medieval, Elizabethan, the age of Nelson, the reign of steam and iron, the now-faded ideal of Pax Britannica--is excitingly described through stories of individual ships, sailors, voyages and battles. Lavishly illustrated with 24 pages of color and 24 pages of black-and-white plates plus maps, Sovereign of the Seas is a dramatic and international tale told with enthusiasm and flare by a master storyteller. -- Inside jacket flap.

The Story of Britain and the Sea

Sovereign of the Seas

Lord Byron and Other Eccentrics in the War of Independence

The Greek Adventure

The Golden Isthmus

Supplies a new and objective historical account of the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada, based substantially on previously unexplored Spanish sources

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