Naval Forces & Warfare

An illustrated overview of the steam vessels deployed by the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.  This is the first book-length st...

The complete history of the United States nuclear-powered Seawolf- and Virginia-class fast-attack submarines. Successors to the US Navys Los A...

When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for ...

Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora...

Although not a weapon in the traditional sense of the word, arguably no item in the Allied arsenal contributed as much to the defeat of the Axis du...

In May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen who were members of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailo...

To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posteritysuch was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence duri...

After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for the Roy...

Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only...

This was the first English-language account of the naval war to take advantage of the research in all languages to provide a comprehensive record o...

One of the best-known historic ships in the world, HMS Victory attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year to Portsmouth, England. This inform...

The warships of the World War II German Navy are among the most popular subjects in naval history, and one of the best collections is the concise b...

From the huge 15-inch guns carried by the Bismarck to the smallest machine gun used by coastal forces, this comprehensive encyclopedia covers every...

Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war....

Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the ...

When European sailors began to explore the world, keeping crews healthy on long voyages became an acute problem. As navies developed, the well-bein...

Employing superb, clear draughtsmanship, this book illustrates each and every detail of the rigging of typical period fore-and-aft vessels. The ri...

In 1786 the French navy had just emerged from its most successful war of the eighteenth century, and the reputation of its ship design and fighting...

Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This v...

During World War II navies developed low visibility, horizontal and vertical surface camouflage for their ships. The camouflage served to reduce th...

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have demonstrated an enduring fascination with trave...

The complete history of the United States' nuclear-powered Los Angeles class attack submarines. This illustrated book covers the complete hist...

Though he entered combat late in May 1942, Carl Emmermann sank twenty-six Allied ships in only four combat patrols while commanding U-172, becoming...