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This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history‿The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing need for vigilance by day and night.'The war at sea - the longest battle of the Second World War - never ceased. From the Arctic Circle to the Pacific, the enemy threat was ever-present, on th...

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The author found the reality of the Second World War very different from the world of Captain Ball V.C. It was dirty blankets and Nissen hut obscenities. Then the golden doors opened and he found himself in peacetime California, learning to fly between long weekends in Hollywood.

Authors Richard M. Hough and Kimberly D. McCorkle employ more than 30 years of academic and practitioner experience to help explain why and how people kill and how society reacts. This brief, yet comprehensive text takes a balanced approach, combining scholarly research and theory with compelling details about recent cases and coverage of current trends.

Der Abschluss der mitreißenden Science-Fiction-Saga um geheimnisvolle Aliens und eine unheimliche Seuche von New-York-Times-Bestsellerautor Jason Hough Für die letzten Überlebenden der Menschheit hat ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit begonnen: Skyler Luiken und sein Team suchen fieberhaft nach außerirdischen Artefakten, um die unheimliche Seuche zu bekämpfen, die die Welt beinahe entvölkert hat. In der afrikanischen Wüste werden sie schließlich fün...

La storia della corazzata Potemkin e dell'ammutinamento dei suoi marinai, immortalata da uno dei più noti film di Eisenstein, è in realtà molto più complessa e interessante di quanto illustrato nella pellicola. Molti dei marinai implicati nell'ammutinamento ebbero dei ruoli significativi nelle successive rivolte antizariste in Russia, fino alla Rivoluzione Sovietica e oltre. La nave stessa partecipò alla Prima guerra mondiale e si unì poi alle...

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The victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and the Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western Europe, the Nazi war leaders knew that they had to defeat the Royal Air Force Fighter Command before they could invade the British mainland. With a finely-struck balance of historical background and dramatic renderings of RAF and Luftwaffe engagements over the English countryside, Hough ...

This fascinating biography, full of new and original material from a noted British historian, chronicles the life of Queen Victoria and the passionate love she shared with the German Prince Albert. Victoria's reign embraced the industrialization of Britain, the creation of numerous inventions, and advances in transport undreamed of when she had come to the throne as a girl of barely eighteen years. Above all, the morality and style of living w...

This biography contains many new insights and interpretations of one ot the world's greatest mariners. 16pp b/w illus.

American Homicide examines all types of homicide, and gives additional attention to the more prevalent types of murder and suspicious deaths in the United States. Authors Richard M. Hough and Kimberly D. McCorkle employ more than 30 years of academic and practitioner experience to help explain why and how people kill and how society reacts. This compressive text takes a balanced approach combining scholarly research and theory with compelling ...

In Nation-States, Richard Lee Hough interprets the role of the nation-state, analyzing the factors that impinge on its viability and correcting the present tilt in numerous commentaries positing, or prophesying, its decline. Hough seeks to balance, or refute those, who in various ways, see the degeneration of the modern nation-state.

The great battles at sea over the last 100 years, from the first major engagement between ironclad fleets in 1905, to the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, are detailed in this account that are graphically reconstructed for the reader. Illustrations.

Che cosa accadde davvero a bordo del Bounty? Che fine fecero gli ammutinati? Ci voleva uno storico navale come Richard Hough per ricostruire, sulla base di una rigorosa documentazione, la vera storia di Fletcher Christian e dei venticinque, tra ufficiali e marinai, che si ribellarono al comandante Bligh. Tre ammutinati furono impiccati, gli altri morirono in circostanze violente, uno solo sopravvisse e divenne il "santo", guida patriarcale del...

James Cook, born in 1728, was one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages in the Royal Navy to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific, the Arctic, and the Antarctic brought a new understanding of the worlds geography and of the peoples, flora, and fauna of the lands he discovered. Richard Hough's vivid narrative captures all the...

Affascinante, elegante, totalmente anticonvenzionale, Edwina Mountbatten fu la contessa dei contrasti: una multimilionaria che professò il socialismo e una repubblicana che divenne Viceregina d'India. Scandalizzò la società del tempo con le sue molteplici passioni amorose ed infine con la sua storica relazione con Nehru, Primo Ministro d'India. "Gli dei ti diedero la bellezza e una grande intelligenza, grazia, fascino e vitalità" dirà di lei J...