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Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793 - 1815 by Brian Lavery
RRP: £50.00£37.62Patrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of the most successful Conway Maritime title. This book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable... -
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £12.99£11.46One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states "A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called 'the watery part of the world.'"-William Anthony... -
Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank?: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy by Steve Hall
RRP: £25.00£16.78The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 - an... -
Lighthouses of Ireland: An Illustrated Guide to the Sentinels that Guard our Coastline by Roger O'Reilly
RRP: £24.99£21.28`I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.' George Bernard Shaw Since ancient times, long before GPS, radio transmission or radar, lighthouses have served as beacons helping ships... -
The Ships of Scapa Flow by Campbell McCutcheon
RRP: £15.99£10.85The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was important during both wars but what makes Scapa Flow... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this... -
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City by Stephen Alford
RRP: £12.99£8.32'Consistently illuminating ... Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence ... trade deals can sometimes be sexy, thrilling and epic' Sinclair McKay, SpectatorLife in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th... -
RMS Queen Elizabeth: Classic Liners by Andrew Britton 9780752479514
RRP: £25.00£18.54This history book tells the story of RMS Queen Elizabeth, the ship which, along with her running mate Queen Mary, successfully worked Cunard's transatlantic service for much of the twentieth century. She was launched in September 1938, the largest... -
Trafalgar: The men, the battle, the storm by Tim Clayton
RRP: £14.99£9.80Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson.On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided... -
ShipCraft 32: British Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Ark Royal and the Illustrious Class by Robert Brown 9781399036269
RRP: £16.99£12.28The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of popular warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and... -
The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present by Jon Wise 9781399041706
RRP: £25.00£17.62From the first recorded mention of British ships protecting of fishing vessels in the late fourteenth century through to recent controversies over the change in emphasis to border patrols and overseas deployments, the story of the Royal Navy's... -
Pirata: The dramatic novel of the pirates who hunt the seas of the Roman Empire by Simon Scarrow
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Sunday Times bestseller!It is AD 25. Pirate ships strike terror in the hearts of those who brave the seas of the Roman Empire. When young Telemachus joins the crew of the merchant ship Selene, he's delighted to escape the rough streets of Piraeus. He... -
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy
RRP: £25.00£22.52A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling."-Ian W. Toll, New York Times "The book makes for enjoyable... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: £14.99£9.70From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue by Stephen McGinty
RRP: £9.99£6.52The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of their depth, out of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a crippled submarine... -
The Untold Story of Captain James Cook RN: Revelations of a Historical Researcher by Colin Waters 9781399056960
RRP: £22.00£15.62The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants. Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters... -
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s revenge by Angus Konstam
RRP: £25.00£18.02'A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history.' Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin... -
A Dictionary of Liverpool Ship Portraitists and Marine Artists by Anthony Tibbles
RRP: £20.00£18.19This dictionary is the most comprehensive work of reference on the ship portraitists and marine artists who worked in Liverpool between the late eighteenth century and the present day. It includes 65 known portraitists and marine artists and an... -
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780007321667
RRP: £12.99£8.32Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is a fresh investigation of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the... -
We Fought Them in Gunboats: HMS Beehive edition by Robert Hichens
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262595Author Robert HichensFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd -
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
£13.94Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture... -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly
RRP: £16.99£9.98A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every... -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips 9781472146175
RRP: £10.99£7.40When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
Liverpool Docks by Michael Stammers
RRP: £14.99£11.55The story of Liverpool is, in many ways, the story of its docks. Before the docks, trade was limited by the tides and at the mercy of the Mersey's currents. After dock construction began, the city became a hub of Britain's worldwide trading network... -
The Pirate World by Angus Konstam
RRP: £30.00£22.55Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world. Often romanticised in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas... -
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: £27.49£19.68From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two-"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."... -
1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.25In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and... -
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The story of the Barbary corsair raid on Iceland in 1627 by Karl Smari Hreinsson
RRP: £24.95£23.86In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in North Africa. Among those taken were the Lutheran minister Reverend Olafur Egilsson.Reverend Olafur (born in the... -
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare by Sam Willis 9781837651115
RRP: £25.99£21.69Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea... -
The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind by Kevin Jackson
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916190894Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press -
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor
RRP: £22.50£17.98A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall... -
China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order by Isaac B. Kardon
RRP: £30.00£24.85An in-depth examination of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes and their implications for the rules of the international law of the sea China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's... -
The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742 by Robert Gaudi
RRP: £12.99£8.18Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States-and the entire Western Hemisphere.In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for... -
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater by Jeff Maynard
RRP: £25.00£16.13Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more... -
Guide to the Crew of Titanic: The Structure of Working Aboard the Legendary Liner by Gunter Babler
RRP: £15.99£12.25Much has been written about Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg in 1912; however, until now little mention has been made about the intricate world of the ship's complement, which comprised... -
Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42: The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway by Mark Stille 9781472856432
RRP: £15.99£11.61Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of... -
Smuggling by Chris McCooey
RRP: £10.99£7.12A smuggler ... 'honest thief' or 'wretch'? Opinion was divided some 200 years ago when smuggling was in its heyday and known as 'that infamous traffick'. Charles Lamb, the essayist, was in favour when he wrote in the early 1800s, 'I like a smuggler;... -
The Geography of the Ocean: Knowing the ocean as a space by Anne-Flore Laloe 9781138546509
RRP: £45.99£40.13Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad... -
Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer by Alexander Clarke 9781399077958
£20.75The ships that dominate so much of the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War are more often than not the carriers or battleships – Ark Royal, Warspite, Hood – and rarely do ships smaller than cruisers move centre stage. Apart that is from one... -
German High Seas Fleet 1914–18: The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy by Angus Konstam 9781472856470
RRP: £15.99£11.61A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial German Navy rebranded its...