Spee's ships survived for as long as they did is a reflection of the primitive state of communications and methods of detection available in 1914. Their demise was as much by chance and coincidence at it was by good planning and concerted action ...

This early work on Alberto Santos-Dumont is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the journeys of an air-ship traveller and his experiences. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf ...

"Naval scholar Eric Grove reassesses the first British naval encounter of World War II - the Battle of the River Plate. In late 1939, a force from the Royal Navy engaged the German battleship Graf Spee, which had been raiding commercial shipping ...

Biography of the young Brazilian who moved to Paris where he experimented with flight until Europeans came to call him the man who conquered air.

Traces the life and career of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the "conqueror of the air," who was acclaimed as the first man to fly