Naval Forces & Warfare

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In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the th...

At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atla...

Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training ...

Formed in 1935, 1st U-Boat Flotilla operated against Hitler's enemies from the very earliest stage of the War through to September 1944 when disban...

How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914but shaped Britains success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andr...

A WW2 heroine. - Dan Snow Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wr...

Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz and ...

The Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet is an evolutionary redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 A/B Hornet. The Legacy F/A-18 Hornet first flew in 1...

USS Lexington (CV-16), a member of the famed Essex class of carriers that made up the backbone of the US Navy's carrier force in WWII, served its n...

Henry Harwood is best known for his destruction of the _Admiral Graf Spee_ at the battle of the River Plate in December 1939 about which Winston Ch...

Here is a fascinating record of the British Pacific Fleet during the Second World War, in particular the closing years of conflict with Japan and t...

The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly ...

Reinhard Teddy Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war and he was the first junior officer to be awarded the...

'The art of command isto be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother...

As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons midget submarines, radio-controlled...

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril - Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill, as a former First ...

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers. It traces their lives from their upbringi...

Top-ranking Japanese officers offer their personal perspectives on the war in the Far East. The first edition of this book was lauded by historians...

_Bayly s War_ is the story of the Royal Navy s Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War One. Britain was...

The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal N...