Naval Forces & Warfare

The crew of the Norland were having a whale of a time in 1982, ferrying passengers between Rotterdam and Hull. Especially the 'girls' in the cateri...

''Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge & Retrenchment shall be ours.'' Alexander Scrimgeour, 17th Septem...

Since the Second World War the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically ...

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleons ultimate defeat Horatio Nelsons celebrated victory o...

In 1719, Captain George Shelvocke, a poverty-stricken ex-naval officer, appealed for help to an old shipmate, Edward Hughes, who was then part of a...

As the world plunged into war in August 1914 two Kaiserliche Marine fleets and several detached cruisers lay beyond the North Sea. These vessels po...

The autobiography of Tony Bentley-Buckle, a child of the Empire who was left to grow up in the care of maiden aunts. Having joined the Royal Navy b...

Sheila Mills''s story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and join...

Exercise Tiger was a series of operations off the South Devon coast in the spring of 1944, rehearsing for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded ...

For its final battleship design Italy ignored all treaty restrictions on tonnage, and produced one of Europe's largest and most powerful capital sh...

'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply sh...

In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their ...

Though, for most participants, the First World War ended on 11 November 1918, the Royal Navy found itself, despite four years of slaughter and war ...

Published in 1900, this book was written for anyone interested in going to sea or simply curious about the work of sailors. Drawing on his own expe...

Adapted from the naval history classic and New York Times bestseller, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors pieces together the action of the Battl...

An advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy Mobile Riverine Forces in 1970-1971, U.S. Navy Commander Richard Kirtley was tasked with helping impleme...

A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, duri...

A compelling history of the greatest ships ever launched.The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships a...