Warfare & Defence

HMS Thunderer was the third Orion class battleship, one of the Super Dreadnoughts built to counter German naval expansion, and was laid down one hu...

A revised and updated second edition of a title previously published in 1981 expanded with new information to bring it up to date. In 1870 the Admi...

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

For four years the German U-boats of U-Flottille Flandern would become a serious threat to the omnipotence of the Royal Navy and its fleet. By th...

The British battleship is one of the most intensely studied of all naval topics, but it is also among the most popular. Norman Friedman is one of t...

This book follows on from the Super Drawings in 3D Battlecruiser, Fast Battleship Haruna The book contains 3D drawingsof the battleship Haruna as s...

HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1...

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

The emergence of the submarine in 1914 as a major strategic weapon was swift and unexpected. On 5 September 1914, a British light cruiser, HMS Path...

Bismarck, the pride of the German navy, displaced more than 50,000 tonnes fully loaded and when commissioned she was the largest warship to date. T...

From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After...

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary...

The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine.5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military install...

This new volume is intended to present a genuinely global vision of the development of world's battleships. In a collection of chapters by experts ...

The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established British dominance in Asian waters in the ninet...

Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed the ship itself have never been...

In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger and capable carr...

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new wea...

The struggle for armored dominance sometimes overshadows the vital and unsung heroes of the battlefield: the engineers. Combat engineer vehicles sp...