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  • The Berlin Airlift
    Aaron Aaberg
    In June 1948, the Soviet Union closed the roads, railways and waterways linking the Western occupation zones to West Berlin. More than two million people were left inside a divided and damaged city with shrinking supplies of food, fuel and medicine. Withdrawal could have surrendered Berlin to Soviet pressure. An armed breakthrough could have ignited another European war. The We...
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    20,11 €

  • The Ocean Liner Age
    Aaron Aaberg
    For more than a century, ocean liners were the great moving cities of the sea. They carried migrants towards uncertain new lives, wealthy travellers through floating palaces, soldiers into global wars and mail, cargo and ideas between distant continents. The Ocean Liner Age traces the extraordinary development of scheduled passenger shipping from the first steam-powered Atlanti...
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    20,69 €

  • Great Lakes Freighters
    Aaron Aaberg
    Across the vast freshwater seas of North America, immense working ships carry the raw materials that built cities, supplied steel mills and connected the continental interior with the wider world. Great Lakes Freighters tells the complete story of the ore boats, grain carriers, coal ships, stone boats and thousand-foot freighters that transformed inland navigation into one of t...
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    20,68 €

  • The Corruption Machine
    Aaron Aaberg
    Corruption rarely begins with a dramatic crime. It begins with a favour, an exception, a loyal appointment or a compromise presented as politically necessary. Then the system learns to protect itself. The Corruption Machine reveals how isolated abuses can develop into a governing method sustained by patronage, propaganda, captured institutions, political identity and fear of ch...
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    21,67 €

  • The Stamp Album
    Aaron Aaberg
    A stamp album is far more than a collection of coloured scraps. It is a miniature history of the world. From the postal roads that existed before adhesive stamps to the arrival of the Penny Black, the expansion of imperial mail, the rise of airmail and the decline of the everyday letter, The Stamp Album follows the remarkable story of the small pieces of paper that carried priv...
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    22,52 €

  • The Surname Story
    Aaron Aaberg
    Every surname carries a story-but rarely the simple one repeated in family legend. A family name may preserve a vanished occupation, an abandoned village, a physical characteristic, a parent’s personal name or a nickname first spoken hundreds of years ago. It may have been translated at a border, reshaped by a clerk, assigned by an institution or deliberately chosen by someone ...
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    22,63 €

  • The Convoy War
    Aaron Aaberg
    Britain could not continue the Second World War without the ships that crossed the Atlantic. They carried grain for its people, oil for its aircraft and warships, weapons for its armies and the industrial materials that kept its factories working. Germany understood this dependence and sent its U-boats to sever the lifeline. The Convoy War tells the sweeping story of the mercha...
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    21,05 €

  • Fortress Islands
    Aaron Aaberg
    Across the Mediterranean, islands became far more than isolated pieces of land. They became fortified naval bases, gateways between empires, and strategic weapons capable of influencing wars far beyond their shores. From the walls of Rhodes and the harbours of Malta to Venetian Cyprus and the long defence of Crete, control of these islands repeatedly shaped the balance of power...
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    20,29 €

  • The Siege from the Sea
    Aaron Aaberg
    From the triremes that sustained ancient Athens to the battered tankers that kept Malta alive during the Second World War, the fate of besieged cities has repeatedly been decided at sea. Walls could resist armies, artillery could delay assaults and determined defenders could hold ruined positions-but none of them could survive indefinitely without food, ammunition, reinforcemen...
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    20,24 €

  • The Mutiny Book
    Aaron Aaberg
    For centuries, ships were isolated kingdoms where captains controlled food, punishment, wages, movement, and life itself. Crews were expected to obey through hunger, storms, battle, disease, and brutality-but obedience had limits. When sailors decided that command had become more dangerous than rebellion, the balance of power aboard a vessel could change within minutes. The Mut...
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    21,20 €

  • The Ships That Never Came Home
    Aaron Aaberg
    Across centuries of seafaring, ships have departed from familiar harbours carrying passengers, sailors, cargo and the expectation of arrival-only to disappear somewhere beyond the horizon. Some entered violent storms. Others sailed through war zones, ice fields or poorly charted waters. A few were later discovered abandoned, their boats missing and their crews gone. Many have n...
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    21,10 €

  • The Ferry
    Aaron Aaberg
    The ferry is one of the least celebrated yet most indispensable vessels ever built. It carries commuters across crowded harbours, tourists towards islands and distant coastlines, lorries through the night, and essential supplies to communities whose roads end at the water. For millions of passengers, it is simply part of an ordinary journey. For isolated islands, it is a lifeli...
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    20,85 €

  • The Warning Signs
    Aaron Aaberg
    The bridge had been inspected. The building’s cracks had been reported. The alarms had sounded before. Engineers had raised concerns, workers had noticed unusual smells and residents had warned that something was wrong. Yet traffic continued, factories remained open, launches proceeded and people were told that the danger was under control. The Warning Signs investigates some o...
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    22,54 €

  • Final Approach
    Aaron Aaberg
    Commercial aviation is one of humanity’s greatest technical achievements-but its remarkable safety record was not created without sacrifice. Behind almost every modern procedure, warning system and engineering safeguard lies an accident that exposed a weakness no one had fully understood until it was too late. Final Approach: The Aviation Disasters That Changed Flying Forever e...
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    22,66 €

  • Broken Hulls
    Aaron Aaberg
    For centuries, the sea carried passengers, soldiers, workers, refugees, fuel and the raw materials of civilisation. It also exposed every weakness hidden within the ships entrusted with their lives. A missing lifeboat, an overloaded deck, an open bow door, a misunderstood radar contact or a warning ignored ashore could transform an ordinary voyage into catastrophe. Broken Hulls...
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    24,25 €

  • Pirates
    Aaron Aaberg
    Piracy is as old as maritime trade itself. Wherever ships carried wealth beyond the protection of the shore, raiders followed-sometimes condemned as criminals, sometimes commissioned as privateers, and sometimes celebrated as national heroes. Pirates: From Ancient Raiders to the Modern High Seas presents a sweeping history of piracy across more than three thousand years. From t...
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    21,07 €

  • The Corsair War
    Aaron Aaberg
    Malta is remembered as the island that stopped the Ottoman Empire during the Great Siege of 1565. Behind the celebrated bastions, however, lay a harder and more complicated truth: the Knights of St John were not simply defenders. From the Grand Harbour, they conducted an aggressive maritime war, hunting Ottoman commerce, raiding hostile coasts, capturing vessels, and sustaining...
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    21,15 €

  • The Lighthouse Keepers
    Aaron Aaberg
    For centuries, lighthouse keepers occupied the loneliest edges of the inhabited world. They climbed wave-battered towers, trimmed smoking wicks, polished immense glass lenses, sounded fog signals, and kept watch while storms shook the walls around them. Their light guided countless ships to safety, yet the people who maintained it were rarely seen by those whose lives depended ...
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    21,20 €

  • The Container Ship World
    Aaron Aaberg
    Almost everything around us has travelled farther than we realise. The clothes we wear, the electronics we use, the furniture in our homes and the parts that keep factories running often begin their final journey inside an anonymous steel box. From the moment that container leaves a distant warehouse, it enters a vast, coordinated world of trucks, trains, ports, cranes, ships, ...
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    21,87 €

  • The Shipwreck Map
    Aaron Aaberg
    Every shipwreck begins with a voyage-a planned route, a loaded cargo, a working crew, and the expectation of arrival. What remains beneath the waves is the evidence of where that expectation ended. The Shipwreck Map explores the hidden world of lost vessels, from ancient merchant ships and imperial treasure fleets to wartime convoys, passenger liners, fishing boats, submarines,...
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    20,24 €

  • The Lifeboat Story
    Aaron Aaberg
    For more than two centuries, lifeboat crews have launched into conditions that drove larger ships onto rocks, sandbanks, and exposed shores. They went without certainty of success, often powered only by oars and sail, guided by local knowledge, discipline, and an extraordinary willingness to risk their own lives for strangers. The Lifeboat Story traces the dramatic history of o...
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    20,23 €

  • Carrier Wings
    Aaron Aaberg
    Carrier aviation changed the shape of Cold War air power. From crowded flight decks and violent catapult launches to long-range patrols over open oceans, naval fighters became symbols of reach, protection, and technological ambition. Carrier Wings: Swing-Wing Fighters, Naval Aviation, and the Cold War Jet Age tells the story of the swing-wing carrier fighter era in clear, fact-...
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    20,36 €

  • The Harrier Story
    Aaron Aaberg
    The Harrier was one of the most unusual combat aircraft ever built: a fixed-wing jet that could take off from short decks, land vertically, support troops from forward bases, and give small carriers a form of air power once reserved for much larger ships. Born from Cold War fears of vulnerable runways and shaped by British engineering, the Harrier became far more than an aviati...
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    20,20 €

  • The Cold War Bomber
    Aaron Aaberg
    The Cold War Bomber: Deterrence, Range, and the Aircraft Built for Nuclear Strategy is a clear, fact-based history of the aircraft that carried the weight of nuclear strategy through the most dangerous decades of the twentieth century. From the enormous B-36 and the jet-age B-47 to the enduring B-52, Britain’s V-bombers, the Soviet Tu-95 Bear, the Tu-22M Backfire, the Tu-160 Bl...
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    20,14 €

  • The Carrier Air War
    Aaron Aaberg
    From the first fragile aircraft launched from ships to the modern carrier strike group, The Carrier Air War: Decks, Catapults, Arrestor Wires, and Combat at Sea tells the story of how the aircraft carrier changed naval warfare. Clear, factual, and written in plain English, this book follows the rise of the floating airfield through early experiments, the Pacific battles of the ...
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    20,11 €

  • The Falklands Air War
    Aaron Aaberg
    The Falklands Air War: Sea Harriers, Skyhawks, Bombers, and the Battle for Distance is a clear, fact-based military aviation history of the air campaign that shaped the 1982 Falklands War. Fought in the harsh South Atlantic, the conflict became a test of range, carrier aviation, ship defence, low-level attack, missile warfare, helicopter lift, logistics, weather, and human endu...
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    20,20 €

  • The Vietnam Air War
    Aaron Aaberg
    The Vietnam Air War: Helicopters, Phantoms, MiGs, and the Conflict That Changed Air Power is a clear, fact-based military aviation history of one of the most complex air wars of the twentieth century. From the deep rotor beat of the Huey to the speed of the Phantom, from MiG engagements over North Vietnam to B-52 strikes, carrier operations, rescue missions, gunships, reconnais...
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    20,13 €

  • The Gulf Air Campaign
    Aaron Aaberg
    The Gulf Air Campaign: Stealth, Precision, and the War That Revealed Modern Air Power is a clear, fact-based history of the 1991 Gulf War air campaign and the conflict that changed how modern air power was seen. From Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the build-up of Operation Desert Shield to the opening nights of Operation Desert Storm, this book explains how coalition air forces ...
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    21,88 €

  • The Attack Helicopter
    Aaron Aaberg
    From the jungles of Vietnam to the armoured battlefields imagined during the Cold War, from the AH-1 Cobra and AH-64 Apache to the Mi-24 Hind, Ka-52, Tiger, Mangusta, Rooivalk, and T129, attack helicopters changed the meaning of battlefield air power. The Attack Helicopter: Armour, Missiles, and the Low-Level Battlefield from Above is a clear, fact-based history of the aircraft...
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    19,57 €

  • The Gunship
    Aaron Aaberg
    From the first AC-47 Spooky missions over Vietnam to the modern AC-130 Ghostrider, the fixed-wing gunship has remained one of the most unusual aircraft in military aviation history. Built from transport aircraft and armed to fire from the side while circling the battlefield, gunships brought together endurance, night sensors, heavy weapons, crew coordination, close air support,...
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    20,38 €


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