Lion's Claw, The

Literature & Fiction

PETER PADFIELD

Genre Fiction

Arrow Books

Guns at sea

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Hugh Evelyn

The battleship era

R. Hart-Davis

<p>The flight of Rudolf Hess, the deputy leader of the Nazi Party, to Scotland in May 1941 remains one of the great unresolved mysteries of the Second World War. Did he come on Hitler's commission--or, as he always maintained, without the Führer's knowledge? Was the man who parachuted out of the Messerschmitt Bf 100 really Hess...or a double? What was his purpose, why was he incarcerated for life in Berlin's Spandau Prison, and was he (as his son alleged) murdered to prevent his revealing an explosive secret? The biographer of Himmler and Dönitz navigates these still swirling controversies with confidence, profiling the man, the milieu, and the uppermost echelons of the Nazi hierarchy. The conclusion: Hess was indeed sacrificed...but he was a most willing victim.<br></p>

Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple

Biographies & Memoirs

UNKNO

The Battleship Era (Grand Strategy)

Pan.

Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy

History

Pimlico

War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict, 1939-1945

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

This text charts the epic struggle between Great Britain and revolutionary and Napoleonic France, revealing both the hidden forces beneath the surface of events and the strategies and battle tactics which ensured Britain the final victory. In Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, Peter Padfield covered the rise of the Dutch to supreme naval and commercial power in the 17th century and their displacement by the British, followed by the 18th-century struggle between Great Britain and Bourbon France. He now explores the contrasts between British power based on trade and sea control and French power based on territorial conquest, and shows how their respective societies were imprinted with irreconcilably different ways of thought and systems of government and finance. He presents the French Revolution and Napoleon in a radical light as essentially regressive, Britain, for better or worse, as the progressive herald of modern liberties. The reader is placed on the gun deck, amid the cannon, smoke, blood and death, or alongside the great leaders, Pitt, Nelson, Wellington or Napoleon Bonaparte.

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Liberty : Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1788-1857

Military

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

Maritime Power & Dominance West

World

John Murray

Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World

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