Naval Forces & Warfare

Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, while overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. Neil Chate...

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how A...

With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, a...

The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age. Seeing the potential for developing nuclear ...

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. ...

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during Worl...

An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success   Between 1941 a...

Submarines features 300 of the most significant submarines from the first submersibles in 1776 to the present day. Each featured submarine is illus...

An in-depth history of the US Navys light aircraft carrier the USS Princeton and its operational exploits in the Pacific Theater of World War II.Th...

Tough, Rugged Bastards is the memoir of an ordinary guy who seized an extraordinary opportunity to become one of the most elite warfighters in Amer...

This book examines the complex phenomena of modern maritime piracy.The work offers a cutting-edge analysis of modern maritime piracy in the two mos...

Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and t...

This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and n...

'There is only one colour that matters, one that unites us all. And that colour is green.'The Royal Marine Commandos have become a byword for elite...

This major new work fundamentally reassesses the operations by the Western allies to deliver war supplies to Russia via the Arctic sea route betwee...

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as ...

In the 16th century warships engaged at close range, sometimes with yards touching, and small arms fire and hand-to-hand combat were at least as...

This is a story drawn from the early days of the Canadian Navy, an account of four young Canadian seamen who were the Navy's first casualties at th...

Kongo, meaning indestructable, was the Imperial Japanese Navy's first super-dreadnought type battlecruiser, and the name-ship of her class, which a...

A Visual History of the Golden State Battleship BB-44The very first in a new series of value-priced hard cover horizontal format books on U.S. capi...

The Unsubstantial Air is a chronicle of war that is more than a military history; it traces the lives and deaths of the young Americans who fought ...

From the very beginning of World War II, the German U-boats proved their worth, attacking Atlantic shipping and imposing a trangulating blockade on...

Achieving sustainability is perhaps the single-most important task for our generation. In the face of a looming climate disaster, calls for the sus...