epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:Stephen Robinson

The Germans sentenced Fry to death but later reprieved his sentence after Swiss intervention. He was awarded the British Empire Medal and his citation read: ‘Fry was the chief ringleader ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-26 | Author:Serge Bile [Bilé, Serge]

Saint Vincent de Paul, by unknown artist. Published in Magasin Pittoresque, Paris, 1840. Saint Vincent de Paul. Portrait and autograph by French poet Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand. Illustration from Niva ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Alistair MacLean

SIX THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE At the end of this second voyage there was no doubt at all, as there had been at the end of the first one, to whom ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-28 | Author:Sir Barry Cunliffe [Cunliffe, Sir Barry]

9.7 Two cognitive geographies of western Europe: (a) Strabo’s view in the late first century BC; (b) Ptolemy’s more accurate view in the second century ad Meanwhile in Africa Following ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Simon Parkin

Captain Walker’s interest in anti-U-boat tactics long pre-dated the war. In the 1920s, years before he was made a captain, Buttercup’s inventor had volunteered to undergo a course at HMS ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:David Abulafia

epub |eng | 2016-12-11 | Author:Jim Bennett

The changing culture of navigation In Chapters 1 and 2 it was appropriate to treat regional navigational cultures as, to a large extent, separate entities, each bounded by a combination ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Christophe Picard & Nicholas Elliott

Razzias and the Conquest of the Islands of the Western Mediterranean The term “razzia” (ghazwa) refers to the operational mode of Muslims who crossed the march to attack in the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Veronica Hinke

Edith Rosenbaum Russell was outspoken in her contention that the ship’s band did not play “Nearer My God to Thee,” and that it did not continue playing as the Titanic ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Gareth Russell

I. The davits could have accommodated a second vertical row of lifeboats, which was added to the Olympic after the Titanic’s sinking. Prior to the disaster, it was felt too ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Matthew Flinders

Sailors do get time off. Matt thought this important. He organised dancing to the fife and drum on the forecastle on fine evenings and, as he puts it, ‘did not ...

epub |eng | | Author:Buddy Levy

With this news Greely now knew that De Long had perished. And at least he knew, with some consolation, that he had a strong supporter back home in Henry Clay. ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Tim Maltin [Maltin, Tim]

Mrs. C. E. H. Stengel, first-class passenger, writes as follows: “As I stepped into the lifeboat an officer in charge said: ‘No more; the boat is full.’ My husband stepped ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Angus Konstam

This early 18th-century plan of Charles Town shows a bustling and well-defended port, but when Blackbeard arrived there in 1718 the city lacked adequate defences. It was now late November ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Peter FitzSimons [FitzSimons, Peter]

26 June 1789, Tubuai, back in Bloody Bay Land ahoy! On the morning of 26 June 1789, Christian and the Mutineers sail back into Tubuai’s Bloody Bay. They stand on ...