Yangtze River Gunboats 1900-47 (Häftad)
avAngus Konstam
ISBN: 9781849084086 - UTGIVEN: 201106"Yangtze River Gunboats, 1900-47".
Pirate: The Golden Age (Pocket)
avAngus Konstam, David Rickman, Giuseppe Rava
ISBN: 9781849084970 - UTGIVEN: 201109"Pirate: The Golden Age".
British Light Cruisers, 1939-45 (Häftad)
avAngus Konstam
ISBN: 9781849086844 - UTGIVEN: 201210The light cruiser was a natural development of the sailing frigate - a fast multi-purpose warship that could patrol the sea lanes, protect convoys and scout for enemy battle fleets. By the inter-war period the need for this type of ship was even more important, given the increasing need for protecti[...]
British Heavy Cruisers, 1939-45 (Häftad)
avAngus Konstam
ISBN: 9781849086868 - UTGIVEN: 201205The idea of a heavy cruiser emerged in the aftermath of World War I, and was closely linked to the limits set by the inter-war Washington Naval Treaty. The pre-World War I concept of armoured cruisers had been abandoned, but in their stead the Admiralty saw a place for powerful cruisers, able to pat[...]
Poltava, 1709 (Häftad)
avAngus Konstam
ISBN: 9781855324169 - UTGIVEN: 199410Offers an account of the origins, events and outcome of the Battle of Poltava in 1709, at which Peter the Great's newly modernized Russian Army smashed the Swedish Army of Charles XII, thus ending more than 50 years of Swedish military supremacy in northern Europe. The book is illustrated with detai[...]
Pavia 1525 (Pocket)
avAngus Konstam
ISBN: 9781855325043 - UTGIVEN: 1996-12Osprey's Campaign title for the climax of the Italian Wars (1494-1559). The battle of Pavia has been hailed as the first modern battle, marking the rise of hand held weapons as a tool of warfare. In this titanic clash - the most decisive of the Italian Wars, caused by French territorial ambitions in[...]
Pirates (Häftad)
avAngus Konstam
ISBN: 9781855327061 - UTGIVEN: 199810This book aims to portray an accurate picture of the pirates who sailed in the waters of the Caribbean and off the American coastline during the "golden age" of piracy and shows that the life of a pirate was nasty, brutish and short (with one or two notable exceptions). It traces the origins of pira[...]
