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For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives and give a vivid picture of the situations that they encountered.Entries range from Captain James Cook's notes of his discovery of the South Pacific and Australia, to logs of the great naval battles, such as Trafalgar and the Battle of the Nile. From the ships that attempted to stop piracy in the Caribbean, to the surgeons who recorded the health of the men they tended and naturalists who noted the exotic plants and animals they encountered, comes a fascinating picture of life at sea, richly illustrated with maps, drawings and facsimile documents found alongside the logs in the archives.

PRE-ORDER THE LATEST PUZZLING PHENOMENON NOWAfter Murdle comes Spydle... Following last year's bestselling phenomenon, The National Archives and Britain's leading puzzle writing duo, Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, have teamed up to produce a brand new puzzle book that promises to perplex and excite with tales of espionage and intrigue. Drawing on five centuries of British intelligence, spycraft and cryptography - from Sir Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan school of espionage and the interception of the Gunpowder Plot through to MI5 operations, cryptographers at Bletchley Park and Cold War agents - each puzzle will be inspired by real-life events and original records held at The National Archives, some only recently discovered, taking the reader on a tour that will educate, intrigue and leave them scratching their heads.

Exploring the experiences of prisoners and internees of the Second World War all around the world, through the records of The National Archives

Spies claim that theirs is the second oldest profession. Secret agents across time have had the same key tasks: looking and listening, getting the information they need, and smuggling it back home. Over the course of human history, some amazingly complex and imaginative tools have been created to help those working under the cloak of supreme secrecy. During World War II, British undercover agents were the heroes behind the scenes, playing a dangerous and sometimes deadly game--risking all to gather intelligence about their enemies. What did these agents have in their toolkits? What ingenious spy gadgets did they have up their sleeves? What devious tricks did they deploy to avoid detection? From the ingenious to the amusing, this highly visual book delves into espionage files that were long held top secret, revealing spycraft in action.