Naval Forces & Warfare

In the context of their war experience in the First World War, the changes and developments of the Executive branch of the Royal Navy between the w...

The British in the Adriatic, 18001825 brings together three detailed studies of British naval and military, diplomatic and commercial activity in t...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to Tirpitz as The Beast, and on 25th January 1942 he wrote, The destruction or even the crippling of this...

A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific.In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their...

This unique memoir charts the career of the author in the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the period 1967 to 1997, and in doing so details many...

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In Jun...

The book begins in January 1944, the point at which serious thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchm...

Explores the varied relationship between political leaders and naval experts, from the 16th to 21st centuries The shaping of national defence st...

Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of South Ameri...

This is a marvellous book. The research is very thorough and it will answer all my questions. RICHARD WILLIS, Normandy veteran, first lieutenant o...

The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of a...

The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of a...

An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy....

In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active ser...

The curiously named HMS Pickle was the second-smallest British ship in Nelsons fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. She acquired enduring fame, howeve...

From the very beginnings of torpedo craft, all naval powers have seen the occasional need for larger, more powerful or in other respects special de...

During the period covered by this new book the Royal Navy faced some of its greatest challenges, both at sea confronting the increasingly capable a...

_Empire Javelin_ an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She carried A Company 116...

For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fou...

This book is Lt. Commander Ellery Sedgwick Jr.s account of his experiences in the Navy during World War II. They called him Kilroy because he serve...

Struggle for Empire provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and military comma...

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished naval officers and...

This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing deta...

Yubari, the smallest of Japanese cruisers built after World War I, was in fact an experimental design. The ship was intended as a test bed for new ...

The British battleship HMS Vanguard was built in the years 19411946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ...

Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old.  Sent away from his family to finish h...

Richard Edward Carey came from a broken home. Enlisting in the Corps in 1945 he later earned a commission, fighting at Inchon and Chosin in Korea b...

This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing deta...

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy had a total of 111 submarines. However, this fleet was not nearly as impr...

The Brooklyn-class light cruiser USS Boise (CL-47) was one of the most famous US combat ships of World War II, already internationally renowned fol...

Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how a...

From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Austral...

Here is the exhaustive and exhilarating story of HMS _Venomous_, one of sixty-seven V&W destroyers built at the end of the Great War that were ...

In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navys commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay o...

In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navys commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay o...

Operation NEPTUNE was the codeword for the naval side of the OVERLORD plan for the historic June 1944 landings in Normandy. Massive in its scale, i...

A comprehensive. illustrated account of the wartime Italian battle fleet, from its ships and technology to command structure, logistics, codebreaki...

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