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Free Download The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How Sailors Lived, Fought and Died in Australia’s Greatest Naval Disaster by Tom Lewis
English | November 13, 2023 | ISBN: 1923004328 | 540 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sydney failed to return to port. An extensive search and rescue carried out, but the warship had disappeared with all 645 men on board. Whilst the battle lasted little more than an hour, this single ship engagement remains Australia’s greatest naval disaster. More Australian servicemen died in the battle between the German raider Kormoran and the light cruiser HMAS Sydney than perished in the Vietnam War. It was not until 2008 that the wreck was discovered. The passage of time between the sinking and the discovery led to numerous mystery and conspiracy theories, all of which started replacing the truth. Now, with an explanation of how those on board lived, fought, and died, this book tells the full story.

Free Download Philip Kaplan – Merchant Sailors at War 1943-1945: Beating the U-Boat (Images of War)
Pen & Sword | 2015 | ISBN: 1783463058 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 162.23 MB
"The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war. Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, on land, at sea, or in the air, depended ultimately on its outcome." – Winston Churchill

Free Download Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail by Marcus Rediker
English | April 7, 2015 | ISBN: 080703410X | 254 pages | MOBI | 3.25 Mb
This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship.

Free Download The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How Sailors lived, fought and died in Australia’s greatest naval disaster by Doctor Tom Lewis
English | January 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1923004328 | 540 pages | True EPUB | 6.22 MB
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels.

Free Download Sailors on the Rocks: Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks by Peter C. Smith
English | January 31st, 2016 | ISBN: 1783400625 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 15.09 MB
For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did "Rule the Waves", in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat. One French Admiral was to generously acknowledge that the Royal Navy possessed, "a tradition of victory." And yet, in every other way, the waves were never ruled by any maritime power. Great fleets might wax and wane, ships grow ever more complex and powerful, but the sea, the eternally cruel sea, was always to have the final say.

Free Download Gregory A. Freeman, "Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It"
English | 2004 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0060936908, 0066212677 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before a 1,000-pound bomb on his plane exploded, causing a chain reaction with other bombs on surrounding planes. The crew struggled for days to extinguish the fires, but, in the end, the tragedy took the lives of 134 men. For thirty-five years, the terrible loss of life has been blamed on the sailors themselves, but this meticulously documented history shows that they were truly the victims and heroes.

Free Download Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports: Sailors Ashore
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031456173 | 278 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the urban borderland spaces of sailortowns in which sailors fought to maintain control over their mobility, agency, and rights. Second, that given their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and legal marginalization, merchant seamen have occupied essential roles at the parameters of US urban, legal, labor, immigration, and wartime history. Third, that the constellation of these histories, embedded in the encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked along the nation’s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship.