Naval Forces & Warfare

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fi...

With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit Amer...

For fifteen years after the end of the war all official Admiralty records showed the German submarine _U 110_ as sunk on 9 May 1941 by the surface ...

The story of HMS Invincible, a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 2...

The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes a...

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fi...

While a large number of books have dealt with the navies and war at sea during the World Wars, the immediate aftermaths have generally received onl...

The four battleships of the Iowa class, the crowning achievement of US battleship construction, had exceptionally long careers and each in their wa...

The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and al...

The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain's vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler an...

Admiral Lord Nelson''s diamond Chelengk is one of the most famous and iconic jewels in British history. Presented to Nelson by Sultan Selim III of ...

Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige...

In 1801 the newly forged United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced life at war with France and her allies and remained so until 1815. A...

Among all the celebrations of the RAF's centenary, it was largely forgotten that the establishment of an independent air force came at a cost - and...

Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warshi...

The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history, destroying a naval fleet, kil...

The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain's HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, ...

806 Squadron was formed in early 1940 and was equipped with Skuas and Rocs, both outdated as fighters and dive-bombers, the latter hampered by a gu...

For the first time, a book exposes an obscure theatre of the First World War in great detail and comprehensively, not just in terms of geography bu...

A group of determined young human torpedoes and assault swimmers fought bravely for Italy in the Second World War, inspiring fear and respect from ...

Referred to by Winston Churchill as `the Beast, `Tirpitz was Germanys last great battleship and was one of the largest and heaviest battleships eve...

Up to and during the First World War, the Royal Navy was at the forefront of developments in aviation: concerned not just with the use of military ...

Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting int...