White Fury
White Fury

Author: Christer Petley

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0198791631

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The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.

Nelson's Trafalgar
Nelson's Trafalgar

Author: Roy Adkins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780143037958

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An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.

England Expects
England Expects

Author: James Corbett

Publisher: Decoubertin Books

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780956431301

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Fully revised and updated for the 2010 World Cup Finals, ENGLAND EXPECTS is the definitive history of the England Football team. From the inaugural international matches in the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of Fabio Capello's reign, it is an engrossing and graphic narrative history of the inside stories, dramas and shattered dreams of our nation's footballers. The second edition of ENGLAND EXPECTS is completely revised to include a new introduction, a new chapter detailing all the agonies of the 2006 World Cup and the contrasting fortunes of England's managers since then.

Rules of Game
Rules of Game

Author: Andrew Gordon

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 1612512321

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Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.