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A Brief History of History of British Sea Power by David Howarth
24.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Brief Histories
The British did not take to water like ducks, for centuries doing little but cling to coastal waters. The Romans and Vikings knocked spots of us as seamen, and the English upper classes saw seafaring as mercantile and beneath them. Britain's success at sea began with Elizabeth I and the defeat of the Ar ...Show more
The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure by David Howarth
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees--all under constant threat by German U-boats and winter storms.
We Die Alone by David Howarth
32.00 NZD
Category: History
In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the Shetland Islands - the most northerly part of Britain - for Nazi-occupied Norway.Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed and only one man survived the ambush by the Nazis. Crippled by fr ...Show more
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