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  • The Trade Winds
    C.Northcote Parkinson
    First Published in 2005. The authors of this book have tried to portray, in outline, the background of trade against which the Navy of Nelson’s time had to operate. The Tarde Winds is the title they have chosen and the book should serve to remind us of many physical facts which then dominated the strategy both of trade and war-the Trade Winds themselves being not the least of t...
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    56,58 €

  • Dead Reckoning
    C. Northcote Parkinson / CNorthcote Parkinson / Northcote CParkinson
    In this final book in the Richard Delancey series, Captain Richard Delancey heads for the East Indies on the 32-gun frigate Laura to take part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope. His ingenious tactics gain the attention of his superiors, who recruit him for a high-stakes mission: to seek out and destroy the French privateer Subtile. ...
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    19,00 €

  • So Near, So Far
    C. Northcote Parkinson / CNorthcote Parkinson / Northcote CParkinson
    Richard Delancey is soon called into action once more, as Britain prepares for the threat of a new French assault. Disturbing rumors are circulating about Napoleon's new weapons of war: vessels driven by steam-engines, new explosive devices, and, most troubling of all, a French secret weapon named Nautilus, which can travel underwater and attach explosive devices below the ...
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    17,35 €

  • The Fireship
    C. Northcote Parkinson / Cyril Northcote Parkinson / Northcote CParkinson
    Having obtained a position on the Glatton, Richard Delancey is soon to see action in the Battle of Camperdown. But the Nore and Spithead mutinies intervene to upset the course of his career. He devises an original legal defense in the court martial of a fellow officer accused of murder, and acquits himself well, but falls afoul of the naval establishment and is passed over in t...
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    15,76 €

  • The Guernseyman
    C Northcote Parkinson / C. Northcote Parkinson / Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    Richard Delancey, inadvertently embroiled in Liverpool labor riots, sidesteps punishment by "volunteering" for the Navy. Ranked as a midshipman, he is no sooner aboard than his ship sails for the port of New York. But when the events of the American Revolution and the ongoing hostilities between England and France send him back across the sea, Delancey finds himself instrumenta...
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    16,68 €