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  The Last Gunboat Blockade (Dramatised), Hörbuch, Digital, 59min

  Here's how Britain, at the height of her imperial power, sent an entire fleet to blockade Greece. The extraordinary story climaxes with Lord Palmerston's great and remarkable patriotic speech in the British House of Commons, which reversed the Government's defeat. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Murray, Michael Kilgariff, Gary Hope, Michael Burrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/berg/000048/pf_berg_000048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Treacherous Passage: Germany's Secret Plot Against the United States in Mexico During World War I , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min

  While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies, from training a German-Mexican army for a cross-border invasion, to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry, and planning for submarine bases on the western coast of Mexico. Bill Mills tells the true story of the most audacious of these operations: the German plot to launch clandestine sea raiders from the Mexican port of Mazatlán to disrupt Allied merchant shipping in the Pacific. The scheme led to a desperate struggle between German and American secret agents in Mexico. German consul Fritz Unger, the director of a powerful trading house, plotted to obtain a salvaged Mexican gunboat to supply U-boats operating off Mexico and to seize a hapless tramp schooner to help hunt Allied merchantmen. Unger's efforts were opposed by a colorful array of individuals, including a trusted member of the German secret service in Mexico who was also the top American spy, the US State Department's senior officer in Mazatlán, the hard-charging commander of a navy gunboat, and a draft-dodging American informant in the enemy camp. Full of drama and intrigue, Treacherous Passage is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David A. Nickerson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097928/bk_acx0_097928_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Ship That Died of Shame: Ten Thrilling Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min

  Crime, mystery, adventure, thrills - all are to be found in this short-story collection commencing with "The Ship That Died of Shame", in which a former navy gunboat is used for smuggling by ex-servicemen down on their luck in postwar society. In "The Reconciliation", a husband employs private detectives but then changes his mind about a divorce once their findings are revealed. In "Licensed to Kill", a honeymoon soon turns into a manhunt when a former Royal Marine commando employs the tricks of his trade. A further seven stories complete a volume full of twists, turns, and hard-hitting drama. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008830/bk_blak_008830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Log of the U. S. gunboat Gloucester commanded by Lt.-Commander Richard Wainwright and the official reports of the principal events of her cruise during the late war with Spain

  Log of the U. S. gunboat Gloucester commanded by Lt.-Commander Richard Wainwright and the official reports of the principal events of her cruise during the late war with Spain ab 23.99 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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  U.S.S. Cairo

  U.S.S. Cairo ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Story of a Civil War Gunboat. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,

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  Fought Like Devils

  Fought Like Devils ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Confederate Gunboat McRae. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,

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  Blood and Iron , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min

  Beginning aboard the U.S.S. Olympia, Blood and Iron is the first in a planned series of six books chronicling the adventures of Levi Rankin. Fresh from the wilds of Wyoming, young Marine Corporal Rankin is savagely tested in the Spanish American War (Battle of Manila Bay) while serving under Commodore Dewey. Rankin's courage is rewarded with a promotion, and he comes of age and learns the lessons of leadership and betrayal in the heat of the Philippine jungles, gunboat duty on the Yellow River, and finally during the brutal Siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. For Mature Audiences Only: Explicit language and situational violence. Must be 18 years of age to purchase. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Barnes, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/wolf/000003/bk_wolf_000003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Shiloh: A Radio Dramatization , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min

  General U.S. Grant and General Sherman are caught off guard by the entire Confederate Army, with their backs to the Tennessee River! Confederate General Johnston's plan was to attack Grant's left and separate the Union army from its gunboat support (and avenue of retreat) on the Tennessee River, driving it west into the swamps of Snake and Owl Creeks, where it could be destroyed. The two-day battle of Shiloh, the costliest in American history up to that time, resulted in the defeat of the Confederate army and frustration of General Johnston's plans to prevent the joining of the two Union armies in Tennessee. An action packed adventure based totally on fact from the award winning Colonial Radio Theatre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Robbins, Joseph Zamparelli, The Colonial Radio Players. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003484/bk_brll_003484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gunboat Justice Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

  Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, "extraterritoriality". Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and, as trade grew, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the United States Court for China. These courts for many decades - over 100 years in China - dispensed British and American justice in the Far East. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact, which continues to this day, on how China and Japan view the world. This book tells its history through the fascinating cast of characters both on and before the bench and the many challenging issues the courts faced including war, riots, rebellion, corruption, murder, infidelity, and, even, a failed hanging. Doug Clark, a practising lawyer who has lived in China, Japan and Korea for over 25 years, has trawled through dusty archives around the world to bring back to life this long-forgotten exotic world.

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  Gunboat Justice Volume 3 (eBook, ePUB)

  Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners; or, "extraterritoriality". Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and, as trade grew, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the United States Court for China. These courts for many decades - over 100 years in China - dispensed British and American justice in the Far East. Extraterritoriality had a huge impact, which continues to this day, on how China and Japan view the world. This book tells its history through the fascinating cast of characters both on and before the bench and the many challenging issues the courts faced including war, riots, rebellion, corruption, murder, infidelity, and, even, a failed hanging. Doug Clark, a practising lawyer who has lived in China, Japan and Korea for over 25 years, has trawled through dusty archives around the world to bring back to life this long-forgotten exotic world.

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