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HMS "Ulysses" [AUDIOBOOK]
Honour Among Thieves [AUDIOBOOK]
House of Cards [AUDIOBOOK]
The Fighting Man [AUDIOBOOK]
The Buddha of Brewer Street [AUDIOBOOK]
The Miracle Strain [AUDIOBOOK]
Remote Control [AUDIOBOOK]
The Chancellor Manuscript [AUDIOBOOK]
The Negotiator [AUDIOBOOK]
The Hunt for Red October [AUDIOBOOK]
Moonfall
Mind's Fire
Fire and Ice
Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Turn Around, Gemini
The Accidental Agent
Archangel
The Armageddon
The Scorpio Illusion
Thumbs
Tell Me Your Dreams
Robert Ludlum's the Paris Option: A Covert-one Novel (A Covert-one Novel)
Firewall [AUDIOBOOK]
Blackberries Got No Thorns
Wings of Fire

Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies in HMS Swallow and Weymouth (Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives, No.)

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Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies in HMS Swallow and Weymouth (Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives, No.)
John Atkins
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0714617873

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First published in 1735, this account focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It also has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave trades.

Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Quality: Engineering Applications and Computer Modeling

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Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Quality: Engineering Applications and Computer Modeling
A. Osman Akan , and Robert J. Houghtalen
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Stormwater Collection Systems Design Handbook
Water Distribution System Handbook
Introduction to Hydraulics & Hydrology: With Applications for Stormwater Management
Land Development for Civil Engineers
Urban Stormwater Management Tools (Engineering Reference)

ASIN: 0471431583

Book Description

A practical introduction on today's challenge of controlling and managing the water resources used by and affected by cities and urbanized communities. The book offers an integrated engineering approach, covering the spectrum of urban watershed management, urban hydraulic systems, and overall stormwater management.

Each chapter concludes with helpful problems.

Solutions Manual available to qualified professors and instructors upon request.

Introduces the reader to two popular, non-proprietary computer-modeling pro-grams: HEC-HMS (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and SWMM (U.S EPA).

HMS Pinafore: or The Lass That Loved a Sailor Vocal Score

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HMS Pinafore: or The Lass That Loved a Sailor Vocal Score
Gilbert & Sullivan
Manufacturer: G. Schirmer, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Mikado Vocal Score (Dover Vocal Scores)
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Patience or Bunthrone's Bride: Vocal Score
Iolanthe, or the Peer & the Peri: Vocal Score with Dialogue
The Gondoliers: Vocal Score

ASIN: 0881887234

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Trusted the world over, the classic, authoritative G. Schirmer editions of the stage works of Gilbert and Sullivan have been spruced up! These new vocal scores feature the complete music and all dialogue, gorgeous color covers, plot synopses, articles on the famous partnership, the history of each operetta, filmographies and discographies. The sewn binding ensures a lifetime of use. Unforgettable characters populate this fourth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, a romantic satire of the British social class system and naval hierarchy. Musical highlights include: We Sail the Ocean Blue * I'm Called Little Buttercup * Sorry Her Lot * I Am the Monarch of the Sea * When I Was a Lad * Never Mind the Why and Wherefore * and more.

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Battle of the April Storm
Larry Forrester
Manufacturer: John Day
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FH9V0I

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A fictionalized account of an actual WWII naval action

Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855

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Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855
William Barr
Manufacturer: The University of Alberta Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0888644728

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In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hell-Ship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the steadily worsening relations between Collinson and his officers. William Barr has based his research on a wide range of original archival documents, and the book is illustrated by a selection of vivid paintings by the ship's assistant surgeon, Edward Adams.

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HMS Expedient
Peter Smalley
Manufacturer: ARROW (RAND)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0099474174

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HMS Ulysses
Alistair MacLean
Manufacturer: HARPER COLLINS 1 PAP
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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When Eight Bells Toll
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Fear Is the Key
The Guns of Navarone/Force 10 from Navarone (Cinema Classics)

ASIN: 0006135129

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The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, "H.M.S. Ulysses" takes its place alongside "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Cruel Sea" as one of the classic novels of the navy, its men and its ships, at war. It is vintage MacLean -- and unforgettable.
"High-powered dramatics." San Francisco Chronicle

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In the correct wake

Hms Beagle: The Story of Darwin's Ship
Keith Stewart Thomson
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0393037789

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In the correct wake.......2000-09-30

In pleasing contrast to the majority of mainstream depictions of Darwin's activities on the Beagle trip, Keith Stewart Thomson's travelogue contains very few historical errors. At least when it comes to the actual whereabouts of Darwin in South America. Thomson's presentation of Darwin's ideas on organic evolution is a bit more foggy, but that matters little as the main focus of the book is to retrace Darwin's anchorages in South America.

The read is easy, nicely contrasting today's luxury of modern oceangoing sailboats and Darwin's cramped accomodations in the tiny HMS Beagle over 150 years earlier.

HMS BEAGLE: Survey Ship Extraordinary (Anatomy of the Ship)

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HMS BEAGLE: Survey Ship Extraordinary (Anatomy of the Ship)
Karl Marquardt
Manufacturer: Conway Maritime Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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24-GUN FRIGATE PANDORA: Revised Edition (Anatomy of the Ship)
The Ship Model Builder's Assistant

ASIN: 0851777031

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A 10-gun brig and survey ship, HMS Beagle became famous for its survey voyages under Commander Robert FitzRoy, especially once Charles Darwin, a passenger on the second expedition, wrote On the Origin of Species which was based on studies undertaken during the four-year voyage. Under the command of her dedicated officers, the ship sailed to some of the most desolate places on earth, mapping the coastlines and passages to make these areas much safer for all future shipping

Despite her fame a three-dimensional model of the ship has been neglected by museums, as specific plans do not exist, but the author has researched the three different ages of Beagle to draw his own accurate plans and build a 1/64 scale model. His research, photographs and plans are now available in this volume to bring HMS Beagle nearer to the heart of model-makers and ship historians and hopefully to restore her to her rightfully-earned place in the parthenon of ships.

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The simple truth about a great disaster.

HMS GLOUCESTER: The Untold Story
Ken Otter
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Dornier Do 335: The Luftwaffe's Fastest Piston-Engine Fighter (Classic)

ASIN: 1844151220

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On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats searching for German soldiers who were victims of a previous British naval attack. The fact that Allied destroyers were in the proximity and were not sent to the rescue was a result of poor naval communications and indecision by the local fleet commanders. Gloucester had been low on anti-aircraft ammunition and her crew exhausted before being dispatched from the main fleet to search for the stricken destroyer HMS Greyhound. With only HMS Fiji as company, she came under attack from German bombers and when Gloucester's ammunition was finally exhausted she suffered several direct hits and was set ablaze from stem to stern and left out of control.

This book looks at the ship's history and operational successes from her launching in 1937 to her final demise. It includes many first-hand accounts from the surviving crew and the author's painstaking research has revealed the awful truth about one of the Royal Navy's greatest disasters during World War Two.

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The simple truth about a great disaster........2004-11-23

Who knows what thoughts dog a man's mind as he grows up in the knowledge that his father was killed when he was just 7 month's old. This author was denied such parenthood at that very age and grew up in the knowledge that his father was one of the 725 men who perished when HMS Gloucester was lost in 1941.

After careers in both the Royal Navy and the Police, Ken Otter then set out to research the story of the ship on which his father served and died. As someone who researches facts about ships and their final journeys for a living, I appreciate and understand the value of - and the difficulties associated with, painstaking research. In this instance, I congratulate this author on a job so very well done.

"HMS Gloucester - The Untold Story" is a complete account of this ship from her launch in 1937 right up to her loss in 1941 and should, in my own humble opinion, be accepted as the official history of this ship. That a valuable Cruiser - already low on anti-aircraft ammunition, should have been sent to the aid of a stricken Destroyer was a questionable decision in the first instance. The fact that no rescue or aid was then sent to that Cruiser once she was set ablaze from stem to stern - or even after she had sunk, just adds weight to the overall argument that those in command were not exercising their authority in a clear and concise manner. Military leaders from any of the three services may be forgiven for any personal faults in their overall makeup - but NOT for indecision!

Whilst I can understand how this particular book will have been a personal quest for the author, it is so well written and clearly so very well researched, I can only hope Mr Otter will now turn his attention to other, similar tragedies in order to provide us with further accounts where those stories still remain "untold."

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