Author: Mark Lardas

A history of the US Navy's remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese, the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampa...

U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the rai...

An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units again...

In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of the latest, ...

The air campaign that incinerated Japans cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war.As the United States pushed ...

This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russo-Japanese War. The focus is on the battleships, c...

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, a...

Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in par...

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II. The opposing heav...

A highly illustrated study of the naval campaign of the Russo-Japanese War of 190405, focusing on the decisive battle of Tsushima. Japan was close...

At the start of World War II, few thought the U-boat would be as devastating as it proved to be. But convoys and sonar-equipped escorts proved ...