A deadly fifty-year-old secret from World War II, hidden away at a top-secret Nazi submarine base, could spell disaster for the modern world when a ruthless corporate mercenary plans to hold the entire world hostage, unless geologist Philip Mercer and his colleague, Anika Klein, can stop him. Original. Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2001 Sider: 484 Sprog: Engelsk
LEGO Avatar Mako Submarine sæt indeholder en detaljeret byggeoplevelse med et samlesæt af en ubåd og undervandsmiljø inspireret af Avatar. Anbefalet alder er 9 år og derover. Målene på boksen er 38x26 cm, og sættet indeholder forskellige figurer og elementer der forestiller en undervandsverden med koraller og havvæsener. uåbnet (ny) Tags: LEGO, Avatar, ubåd, bygge, marine
The German Navy in the First World War This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict.?The impact of this impotence had a far-reaching effect upon the service. Germany, indeed most of Europe, was in the grips of a spirit of militant nationalistic fervour, and the inactivity of the great Imperial Navy caused deep frustration, particularly among the naval officers. Not only were they unable to see themselves as heroes, they were also ridiculed on the home front and felt profoundly humiliated. With the exception of the one sea battle at Jutland, their ships saw little or no action at sea and morale slowly collapsed to a point where, at the end of the war, the crews
Teknisk detaljeret techno-thriller om den amerikanske atomubåd Seawolf, der under en hemmelig mission forsvinder og muligvis falder i fjendens hænder. US Navy forsøger at lokalisere ubåden og dens højt klassificerede teknologi, mens internationale spændinger mellem USA, Kina og Rusland eskalerer. Kaptajnen og besætningen må manøvrere i et farligt spil af jagt, modjagt, spionage og politiske dagsordener under havets overflade. Fokus ligger på ubådskrigsførelse, high-tech våbensystemer og nervepirrende kampscener, hvor små fejl kan få katastrofale konsekvenser for både besætning og global magtbalance. Type: Paperback Engelsksproget militær thriller om moderne ubådskrig. En amerikansk angrebsubåd af Seawolf-klassen forsvinder sporløst, og marinen frygter, at den er kapret. Historien følger besætningen og deres kaptajn i et højspændt spil mellem USA, Kina og Rusland, hvor ny avanceret underv
Dette er en CD-samling af The Beatles, med titlen '1962-1966'. Det røde CD-omslag indikerer, at det er en samling af sange fra den angivne periode. På bagsiden af omslaget er en liste af populære Beatles-numre fordelt på to CD'er. Nogle af sangene inkluderer 'Love Me Do', 'Yesterday', 'Help!', og 'Yellow Submarine'. Omslaget er desuden prydet med et ikonisk billede af bandets medlemmer.
Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of index funds, bringing to life the colourful characters behind their birth, growth and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. It is the untold story behind one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of our time Titel: Trillions : how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and endured Wall Street's scorn to launch the index fund revolution, democratizing investing and saving hundreds of billions of dollars in fees that would have otherwise lined fat cats' pockets. Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea th
Forfattere: Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 520 Udgivelsesår: 2012 1942, the Cape of Good Hope. Returning from a secret mission to the Far East an Italian submarine is attacked by British aircraft and fatally damaged. On board, a mysterious scientist and his precious cargo are believed to be lost along with the vessel . . . Three quarters of a century later, while diving off the coast of Chile, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt saves a crowded cruise ship from being rammed by a runaway freighter. On board the rogue ship he finds the strangely burned remains of a single crewman. A continent away, in a secure Naval dry-dock, the President is shown the prototype of the Poseidon's Arrowattack submarine, the top secret result of a black programme so advanced it will secure US dominance at sea for decades to come. But there's one problem. The scientist responsible for its design
