Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. In 1702 however when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish main other ships in his squadron failed to support him. His leg shattered by a cannon-ball Benbow fought on
- but to no avail: the French escaped & the stricken Benbow succumbed to his wounds. When the story of his ' Last Fight' reached England there was an outcry. Two of the captains who had abandoned him were court-martialled & shot; ' Brave Benbow' was elevated from national hero to national legend his valour immortalized in broadsheet & folksong: ships were named after him; Tennyson later feted him in verse; in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island the tavern where Jim Hawkins & his mother live is called ' The Admiral Benbow'. For the very first time Sam Willis tells the extraordinary story of Admiral Benbow through an age of dramatic change from his birth under Cromwell's Commonwealth; to service under the restored Stuart monarchy; to the Glorious Revolution of 1688; to the French wars of Louis XIV; & finally to the bitter betrayal of 1702. The Admiral Benbow covers all aspects of seventeenth century naval life in richly vivid detail from strategy & tactics to health & discipline. But Benbow also worked in the Royal Dockyards lived in Samuel Evelyn's House knew Peter the Great helped to found the first naval hospital & helped to build the first offshore lighthouse. The second volume in the Hearts of Oak trilogy from one of Britain's most exciting young historians The Admiral Benbow is a gripping & detailed account of the making of a naval legend.
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The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class highlighting differences between sister-ships & changes in their appearance over their careers. This

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- books monographs large-scale plans & websites. The subject of this volume is the largest & most sophisticated German cruiser class of WW2. The five ships suffered very different fates. Blucher was sunk during the invasion of Norway in 1940 whereas Admiral Hipper fought right through the war. The most famous Prinz Eugen escaped when Bismarck was sunk & survived to be expended in a postwar Atomic bomb test. Seydlitz was intended to be converted to an aircraft carrier but never finished while Lutzow was sold to Russia & sunk by her erstwhile owners.STEVE BACKER is the editor of steelnavy.com the best warship modelling site on the web for which he writes extensively on warship kits & accessories. He is also the author of four previous titles Japanese Heavy Cruisers British Battlecruisers Essex Class Carriers & Bismarck & Tirpitz in this Ship Craft series.


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This is an omnibus edition compromising of four C. S. Foresters classic seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower namely: Flying Colours" " The Commodore" " Lord Hornblower" & " Hornblower in the West Indies"." ...

It was 1794. Lieutenant John Pearce recently returned from the Atlantic is caught between the constant feuding of two senior admirals. One puts him in a position of maximum danger while another asks him to undertake a hazardous commission one he must undertake in order to protect his friends the Pelicans. They are his Achilles heel & those in power know it. Meanwhile Pearce is also trying to construct a perjury case against Captain Ralph Barclay while nephew Toby Burns has become a reluctant pawn in the game the objective of which is to finally silence the man who could bring about Barclay's ruin: John Pearce. Highly charged packed with historical detail & loaded with action
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Adobe Illustrator is the indispensable vector drawing tool used by digital artists around the world. As a key component of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Illustrator CS6 provides those artists with powerful drawing tools unparalleled typographic controls & much more. The award-winning Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book is updated for intermediate through professional artists & designers to inspire & teach. With its practical yet beautiful examples this book focuses on real-world tips tricks & techniques extracted from the artwork of many of the world's best Illustrator artists. Along the way the book incorporates the new Adobe features such as powerful new ways to create complex repeating patterns apply gradients to a path edit & apply custom & preset stroke profiles add custom & preset live arrows use enhanced live trace work with Bristle & Blob brushes learn new ways to construct & edit objects add transparency to mesh & gradients create 3D with the perspective grid manage multiple artboards crop with clipping masks control transitions with opacity masks & more. ...