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100 Greatest Battles by Angus Konstam
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
A highly illustrated introduction to some of the greatest battles in world history, from the iconic encounters of the Ancient World such as Thermopylae and Cannae, through to the major clashes of the 20th century epitomized by Stalingrad and Khe Sanh. This concise study by renowned military historia ...Show more
Battleship Bismarck, 1936-41 - An Insight into the Design, Contruction and Operation of Nazi Germany's Most Famous and Feared Battleship by Angus Konstam
Category: Military | Series: Owners' Workshop Manual Ser.
In this, the first Haynes Manual about a Second World War warship, acclaimed maritime author and historian Angus Konstam gives readers a detailed insight into the design, fighting capability and short-lived career of Nazi Germany's greatest warship. He tells the Bismarck's story, from her origins in t ...Show more
Big Guns : Artillery on the Battlefield by Angus Konstam
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Short History
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics. Over seven centuries the artillery piece has evolved from a status symbol to one of the most deadly weapons wielded by man. Using gunpowder weapons was initially something of a black art, but o ...Show more
Blackbeard by Angus Konstam
Category: Fiction
Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. This title traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near hi ...Show more
Blackbeard : America's Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam
Category: History
Blackbeard was the most fearsome pirate of his day a man who terrorized the Caribbean and the Spanish Main, who dared to blockade Charleston, South Carolina, and who became, as a result, the most famous pirate of all. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological findings including the discovery o ...Show more
Blackbeard's Last Fight - Pirate Hunting in North Carolina, 1718 by Angus Konstam
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Raid
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach - more popularly ...Show more
British Battlecruisers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam; Tony Bryan (Illustrator, Translator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS ‘Hood’, the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship ‘Bismarck’. Out of the remaining two battlecruisers (‘Repulse’ a ...Show more
British Battleship vs German Battleship - 1941-43 by Angus Konstam; Ian Palmer (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Duel Ser.
At the outbreak of World War II, the four key Capital German ships comprised the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Their primary threats where the Royal Navy's King George Ve-class battleships, the most modern British battleships in commission during World War II and some of the Navy's most ...Show more
British Commando 1940-45 by Angus Konstam
Category: History | Series: Warrior
With Hitler's army rampaging across Europe, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a special fighting force - the Commandos. These valiant men were volunteers drawn from the ranks of the British Army, formed into a Special Service Brigade and put through a rigorous but highly effective training progr ...Show more
British Destroyers 1939–45Wartime-built classes by Angus Konstam
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by Germany and Japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful Tribal-class. These were followed by the designing of the first of several slight ...Show more
British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the British Empire at its peak.In recent years the phra ...Show more
British Ironclads 1860-75 - HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet' by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she ente ...Show more