Naval Forces & Warfare

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought i...

This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operat...

This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder l...

The surrender of the German U-boat fleet at the end of World War II was perhaps the principal event in the war's endgame which signified to the Bri...

This second of two volumes on American landing craft of World War II focuses on the larger LCT, LSM, LCS(L)(3), and LST vessels that transported ta...

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and m...

Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea ...

HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Arg...

Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had go...

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...

A comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the So...

Naval Actions of the War of 1812 was previously published in 1896 to study the condition of affairs that led up to the declaration of the second wa...

Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and ...

Decorated US navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman was critically wounded in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander, when his mo...

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory...

Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world. Often romantic...

The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and applicati...

Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destru...

What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at nav...

On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save themselves and their submarine after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent...