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  • The Heroic Record of the British Navy: A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918

    by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford & Archibald Hurd ...
    It was early on the morning of July 20, 1914, that a couple of guests, who had courteously been invited to be present in the gunboat Niger for the King's inspection of the Fleet, made their way through the sleeping streets toward Portsmouth Dockyard. There were to be no manoeuvres this year since, as had already been announced in March, a test mobilization of the Third Fleet was to take their ... Read more

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  • Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself

    by Henry Howarth Bashford ...
    "A sublime ferocious farce." — The New Yorker."Incomparable ... a wonderful slapstick satire on hypocrisy." — New Statesman."One of the great comic novels of the twentieth century." — Anthony Burgess.Meet our memoirist, Augustus Carp, a self-proclaimed "good man" who relishes every opportunity to condemn the weaknesses of others while excusing his own failings. In this spoof autobiography, the ... Read more

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  • The Heroic Record of the British Navy

    A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918

    by Henry Howarth Bashford, Archibald Hurd ...
    Example in this ebookIn the years immediately preceding the Great War, already so hard to reconstruct, it was not uncommonly suggested that the British seafaring instinct had begun to decline. In our professional navy most thinkers had confidence, as in a splendid machine ably manned; but, as regarded the population as a whole, it was feared that modern industrialism was sapping the old sea-love. ... Read more

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  • Decision at Sea

    Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History

    by Craig L. Symonds ...
    From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare--and the course of the American nation. Acclaimed military historian Craig Symonds offers spellbinding narratives of crucial ... Read more

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  • The Grand Scuttle

    The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

    by Dan van der Vat ...
    A true account of a unique event in naval history from "a superb storyteller" ( Northern Mariner).On June 21, 1919, the German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built, was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by its own officers and men.The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few ... Read more

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  • H.M.S. Rodney

    Warships of the Royal Navy

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    The biography of a British battleship, from an author with " a facility for rendering nonfiction into a narrative as brisk and readable as a novel" ( HistoryNet).The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler's navy, the mighty Bismarck, in a thrilling duel. The Rodney, carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship, ... Read more

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  • Collected Ghost Stories

    by M.R. James ...
    Omnibus edition of James' famous ghost stories, incorporating his four earlier collections, with some additional items not included in these earlier volumes. ... Read more

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  • Little Dorrit

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series series Victorian Epic
    The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as ... Read more

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  • The M.R. James Megapack

    27 Classic Horror Stories

    by M.R. James ...
    Montague Rhodes James (1862 – 1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic cliches of his predecessors ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of George Gissing (Delphi Classics)

    by George Gissing, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 8 - Delphi Series Three
    George Gissing was one of the leading novelists at the end of the nineteenth century, lauded by critics and admired by his literary friends. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Gissing’s complete works in this comprehensive eBook, with all 23 novels, the entire non-fiction and special bonus texts. (Version 1)* Illustrated with images relating to Gissing's ... Read more

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  • Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

    by M.R. James ...
    M.R. James was an English author best known for his ghost stories. James’ ghost stories do not follow the same style as ones that preceeded them and that led to him being known as the founder of the antiquarian ghost story. This edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal

    by Roy Horniman ...
    It was the close of a bleak, autumnal afternoon. All day long in the chill and windy atmosphere the dust had been driven helter-skelter along the shabbier streets of Clapham, whirling with it the leaves which had fallen from the depressed trees in the gardens of the innumerable semi-detached villas. Here and there, fragments of torn paper rustled spasmodically along the gutter as the driving gust ... Read more

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