События, о которых идет речь в этом рассказе, написанном в 2001 году специально для сборника “The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles”, происходят в августе 1801...
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Вторая книга серии "Сага о Натаниэле Дринкуотере". Натаниэль получил лейтенантский патент и был назначен на вооруженный куттер...
Небольшая повесть Ричарда Вудмена «Пирамидальная скала» входит в цикл романов «Сага о Натаниэле Дринкуотере». Время действия повести...
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Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to...
На сегодняшний день перу Ричарда Вудмена принадлежит около двух десятков произведений, включая четырнадцать томов серии о Натаниэле...
In the aftermath of a typhoon, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings His Britannic Majesty's frigate Patrician into the shelter of the Pearl River on the China coast. Seeking the means to refit, he is unwittingly entangled in bizarre events...
The second book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series.
Midshipman Drinkwater is back in the Navy in 1792, appointed to the 12-gun cutter Kestral. Off the French coast, the Kestral becomes involved in the secret and dangerous adventures linked...
It is 1811 and Napoleon's French Empire dominates Europe. Desperate to stem the encroaching French tide and avert war with the emerging power of the United States, the Royal Navy orders Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater to the Chesapeake Bay to heal...
In 1809, working undercover for the Admiralty's Secret Department, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater goes ashore and mingles with the dregs of London's dockland. Disguised as a Merchant Marine shipmaster of low character, he encounters a known French...
The year is 1813. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navy's Secret Department. While the Grand Army of Napoleon faces defeat on the battlefields of Germany, the discovery of a secret treaty with America leads...