' Majestic Truly gripping' Andrew Roberts The Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important
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So when the kids accidentally lose the family pirate treasure the legendary Blighty Bling it's up to them to take to the high seas in a leaky rowing boat & get it back with their annoying know-it-all neighbours in tow 224 pages black & white illustrations throughout Quayle Ruth ...

The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women as proud & ambitious as they were beautiful yet different in all other qualities Isabella flamboyant & passionate a medieval Helen of Troy
- wife to King John & mother to Henry III 480 pages Plaidy Jean
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Ten days before the start of WWII Graf Spee Germany&s famed warship under the leadership of Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) attempts to halt Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic After a defeated allied craft manages to radio its coordinates before sinking British naval forces begin playing a cat-&-mouse game with the feared German warship leading to Langsdorff & his crew hiding out in Montevideo ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the Great War is one of the finest films of the British silent era The Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile was a triumph for German Admiral von Spee & the first defeat of the British navy for a hundred years The retaliatory strike was instigated six weeks later by Admiral Fisher who sent two large battlecruisers HMS Invincible & HMS Inflexible to the South Atlantic to restore British supremacy Filmed on real battleships supplied by the admiralty this monumental production like Eisenstein&s Battleship Potemkin (1925) glories in the power & beauty of the machine Scrupulously fair in its treatment of the enemy this stirring film has been restored by the BFI National Archive & is presented with a newly commissioned score composed by Simon Dobson & performed by the Band of her Majesty&s Royal Marines ...

By the author of Grounded The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants Here Robert M Farley looks at the history & folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power
- & sometimes national futility From Arizona to Yamato here are more than sixty lavishly illustrated accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship Separate essays & sidebars look at events & lore that greatly affected battleships
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Even as the First World War was ending the victorious great powers were already embarked on a potentially ruinous new naval race competing to incorporate the wartime lessons & technology into ever-larger & costlier capital ships still seen as the ultimate arbiters of sea power This competition was curtailed by the Washington naval treaty of 1922 which effectively banned the construction of such ships for years to come & mandated the scrapping of those under construction This holiday was to have profound effects on design when battleship building was renewed in the 1930s as later international agreements continued to restrict size & firepower This book investigates the implications of these treaties on technical developments contrasting the post-war generation of ships that were never completed or never even ordered with the new designs of the 1930s revealing just how much progress had been made in areas like fire control & armour despite the hiatus An analysis of how well these modern ships stood the test of war concludes this intriguing & original contribution to the literature a book that is certain to fascinate anyone interested in the final era of the big-gun at sea ...

Plea&115;e note thi&115; i&115; a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Korean hi&115;torical drama directed by &83;eung-wan Ryoo & &115;tarring Jung-min Hwang & &83;u-an Kim In the clo&115;ing month&115; of the &83;econd World War Korean pri&115;oner & former bandleader Kang-ok (Hwang) & hi&115; young daughter &83;ohee (Kim) are captive&115; in the Japane&115;e internment camp on Ha&115;hima I&115;land known a&115; Battle&115;hip I&115;land There women of all age&115; are pro&115;tituted for their over&115;eer&115; & men are worked to exhau&115;tion mining coal Kang-ok &83;ohee & their fellow pri&115;oner&115; will do whatever they can to &115;urvive but their ultimate goal i&115; to e&115;cape & a political pri&115;oner interned at the camp become&115; a figurehead for the pri&115;oner&115; & their plot Actor&115; Jung-min Hwang &83;u-an Kim Jung-hyun Lee Ji-&115;eob &83;o Joong-ki &83;ong Director&115; &83;eung-wan Ryoo Writer&115; &83;eung-wan Ryoo Producer&115; Hye-jeong Kang Language Korean Japane&115;e&83;ubtitle&115; Engli&115;h Dubbed Japane&115;e Number of di&115;c&115; 1 ...

The art of Franz & Ferdinand Bauer was praised by the poet & botanist Johann Goethe as the perfect expression of the aims of botanical illustration The book examines the contrasting lives of Franz (1758-1840) for 50 years the resident artist at Kew Gardens & Ferdinand (1760-1826) who led a life of travel & adventure as a natural history artist including participating in the historic voyage to Australia of HMS Investigator in the early nineteenth century It is illustrated with images from the superb archive of Bauer drawings at the Natural History Museum Library many of which have never been published before These include beautiful & finely detailed watercolours of flowering plants collected from across the world pioneering microscopical drawings of plant anatomy & pictures of the newly discovered animals from the coasts of Australia The book is published to tie-in with a new art exhibition opening at the Natural History Museum in November 2015 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Chesapeake Bay is a seaside town that relies on water & the dockside tourism it brings to the community When two biological researchers find a staggering level of toxicity in the water they attempt to alert the mayor before the situation gets out of control However the mayor refuses to raise the alarm in fear of creating a panic among the citizens of the docile town As a result a deadly plague is unleashed turning the people of Chesapeake Bay into hosts for a mutant breed of parasites Taking control of their minds & eventually their bodies the parasites soon cause the town to descend in absolute terror as they quickly realise the harrowing reality they are faced with Actors Kristen Connolly Jane Mc Neill Christopher Denham Kether Donohue Michael Beasley Andy Stahl Anthony Reynolds Lauren Cohn David Andalman Dave Hager Jody Thompson Mellie Boozer Stephen Kunken John Harrington Bland & Stacy Rabon Director Barry Levinson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 1851 Languages English Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 24 minutes (approx) ...