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Intro -- Introduction -- Timeline -- Chapter 1: Medieval Origins (14th-15th centuries) -- Chapter 2: The Renaissance (16th-17th centuries) -- Chapter 3: The Age of Reason (18th century) -- Chapter 4: The Wars of Napoleon (1792-1815) -- Chapter 5: The Industrial Age (1815-1914) -- Chapter 6: World War I (1914-1918) -- Chapter 7: World War II and After (1919-present).

The pirate perhaps epitomises the loveable rogue of popular legend, and our interest in pirates, both real and fictional, is enormous. This beautifully illustrated book presents the story of piracy in a completely new way. Expansive maps plot the routes that pirates followed - whether crossing the world's great oceans, or pursuing their prey through creeks and bays and wonderful illustrations bring the villains, their ships and their victims to life. The book relives adventure on the high seas, explaining how piracy grew, flourished, and was finally snuffed out.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Design And Development -- The era of experimentation -- White's first battleships -- Second Class battleships -- The Spencer classes -- White's last battleships -- The end of an era -- Guns, Steam And Steel -- Armament -- Propulsion -- Armour -- Battleships In Action -- Further Reading -- Index -- Imprint.

Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far from the naval epicentre of the war than were ever killed at Jutland. Gunboat engagements during this war were bloody and hard fought, if small in scale. Austrian gunboats on the Danube fired the first shots of the war, whilst German, British and Belgian gunboats fought one of the strangest, most intriguing naval campaigns in history in far-flung Lake Tanganyika. From the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, from the Balkans to Mesopotamia, gunboats played an influential part in the story of World War I. This detailed technical guide to the gunboats of all the major navies of the war means that, for the first time, the story can be told