David Armine Howarth Bücher

Entdecker, Piraten, Techniker: fundierte farbenprächtige Darstellung des 400jährigen Ringens um die Seeverbindung zwischen Atlantik und Pazifik.

Focusing on firsthand accounts, David Howarth's narrative captures the dramatic events of June 6, 1944, during the D-Day invasion. By incorporating testimonies from American paratroopers, British engineers, French civilians, and German soldiers, the book vividly portrays the chaos, fear, and valor experienced on that historic day. It explores not only key incidents but also the diverse emotions and experiences of those involved, offering a comprehensive view of the greatest amphibious landing in history.

For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations.

A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons, supplies, and agents and to rescue refugees. In The Shetland Bus, David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught. For the Norwegians who remained in Norway, The Shetland Bus fortified them both physically and spiritually. Nothing but war would have made seamen attempt such dangerous journeys. Some stretched two thousand miles in length and lasted as long as three weeks in boats only fifty to seventy-five feet long. Fishing boats crossing the North Sea were sometimes attacked and sunk in minutes, hundreds of miles from a friendly ship or shore. Their crews had no hope of being saved. But to "take the Shetland Bus" meant escape when capture became the only other option. The Shetland Bus is the amazing true-life account of storms, attacks, danger, and the heroic efforts of brave men.

'Vivid, violent, almost impossible to put down unfinished, this is a particularly welcome reprint of a masterpiece' The Good Book Guide

A fascinating history of the Renaissance from its origins in Italy to its spread through Europe and Beyond. Over 250 illustrations depicting topics and places of key interest. 42 expertly drawn maps.