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  • Sir Francis Drake

    by Julian Corbett ...
    Sir Francis Drake is a classic biography of the legendary explorer. ... Read more

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  • Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett ...
    At first sight nothing can appear more unpractical, less promising of useful result, than to approach the study of war with a theory. There seems indeed to be something essentially antagonistic between the habit of mind that seeks theoretical guidance and that which makes for the successful conduct of war. The conduct of war is so much a question of personality, of character, of common-sense, of ... Read more

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  • Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

    Volume Two

    by Julian S. Corbett ...
    Unlike his contemporary American theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain’s eminent maritime strategist, Sir Julian Corbett, believed that victory in war did not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this had never been the case. Corbett’s keen analysis of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 and his discussion of the pros and cons of limited conflict is still of great value ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

    Volume One

    by Julian S. Corbett ...
    Sir Julian Corbett was regarded as one of the greatest naval historians of the early twentieth century. Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905 was never available to the public during his lifetime. As noted in the introduction to Volume I, Corbett dealt not with “minute details and themes,...but a continuous narrative that demonstrated the interrelationship of land and sea events ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • England in the Seven Years War – Vol. I

    A Study in Combined Strategy

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. ...
    Series series England in the Seven Years War
    The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was one of the truly world-wide conflicts following the expansion of European colonies, with engagements spanning from India to Canada. As with so many of the European wars, the causes were a question of land and legitimacy. The ever-present simmering tensions between England and France, and the newly emergent Prussia and Austria, led to a conflict that dragged many ... Read more

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  • For God and Gold

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett ...
    Erasmus, in his Praise of Folly, has uttered a sharp note against those scribbling fops who think to eternise their memory by setting up for authors, and especially those who spoil paper in blotting it with mere trifles and impertinences. Yet have I, that was none before, resolved to turn author, and set down certain passages in my life that I have thought not unworthy to be remembered. Many who ... Read more

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  • England in the Seven Years War – Vol. II

    A Study in Combined Strategy

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. ...
    Series series England in the Seven Years War
    The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the one of the truly world-wide conflicts, with engagements spanning from India to Canada. The causes, as with so many of the European wars, was a question of land and legitimacy, the ever present simmering tensions between England and France, and the newly emergent Prussia and Austria, leading to a conflict that dragged many other nations into the strife ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Successors to Drake

    by Sir Julian S. Corbett ...
    The present work is designed as a sequel to Drake and the Tudor Navy (1898), to which it practically forms a third and concluding volume, carrying the reader through the period of hostilities with Spain which extended from the death of Drake in 1596 to the conclusion of the war at James I.'s accession.It is a period which, if we except the operations of Essex at Cádiz in 1596, has been much ... Read more

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  • Drake and the Tudor Navy Vol. II

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett ...
    Series series Drake and the Tudor Navy
    THE NAVAL ART IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURYTHE conspicuous technical feature of the maritime revolution which in the sixteenth century transferred the focus of the naval art from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic is the transition from galley warfare to warfare under sail; and the history of that transition, of its causes, its development, and its results, is the history of the rise of ... Read more

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  • Kophetua the Thirteenth

    by Julian Stafford Corbett ...
    "Kophetua the Thirteenth" is a historical novel set in the fictional kingdom of Kophetua. The story is set in a medieval-like world and follows the adventures of the titular character, King Kophetua the Thirteenth.The novel combines elements of romance, adventure, and political intrigue. King Kophetua is portrayed as a ruler who must navigate the challenges of his reign, including conflicts with ... Read more

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  • Drake and the Tudor Navy Vol. I

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett ...
    Series series Drake and the Tudor Navy
    THE NAVAL ART IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURYTHE conspicuous technical feature of the maritime revolution which in the sixteenth century transferred the focus of the naval art from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic is the transition from galley warfare to warfare under sail; and the history of that transition, of its causes, its development, and its results, is the history of the rise of ... Read more

    $2.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Campaign of Trafalgar — 1805. Vol. II.

    by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. ...
    Series series The Campaign of Trafalgar — 1805.
    Of the many campaigns in the long history of Britain, naval and otherwise, there have been few more momentous than the campaign in the Mediterranean in 1804-5 culminating in the battle of Trafalgar. They spawned a national hero in the figure of heroic lord Nelson, one-armed and blind in one eye, dying at the moment of his greatest victory over a more numerous enemy. However, the story of the ... Read more

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