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HMS Rodney: Slayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour by Ian Ballantyne
£17.75The Royal Navy battleship HMS Rodney was one of the most famous warships of the Second World War and remains a legend in the pantheon of naval history. In May 1941 Rodney turned Bismarck, the pride of Hitler's navy, into twisted metal, then participated... -
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean: The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans by Phillip Williams 9781784533755
£29.05In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates... -
The Truth about the Mutiny on Hmav Bounty - And the Fate of Fletcher Christian by Glynn Christian
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014182Author Glynn ChristianFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: £11.99£7.59'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
The Longest Campaign: Britain'S Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939-1945 by Brian Walter 9781612008561
RRP: £25.00£16.24For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence against a myriad of threats both military and economic. During this time the Royal Navy established itself as the sovereign of the Seas, helping... -
British Destroyers 1939-45: Wartime-built classes by Angus Konstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by Germany and Japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful Tribal-class. These were... -
The Battleship Scharnhorst by Stefan Draminski
RRP: £40.00£31.41The Kriegsmarine's Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, described either as a battleship or battlecruiser, and the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau. She was launched on 3 October 1936 and completed in January 1939, armed... -
Sailors, Ships, and Sea Fights: Proceedings of the 2022 'From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815' Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail Conference by Nicholas James Kaizer 9781804513446
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513446Author Nicholas James KaizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Surviving the Arctic Convoys: The Wartime Memoirs of Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell by John R McKay
RRP: £19.99£14.28Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: £17.99£13.35Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
Gunther Prien and U-47: The Bull of Scapa Flow: From the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak to the Battle of the Atlantic by Dougie Martindale 9781526737755
RRP: £25.00£18.62On the night of 13/14 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second War Patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. This legendary attack is remembered as one of the most audacious... -
Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781848842908
£16.32The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson... -
Diary of a Wartime Naval Constructor: Sir Stanley Goodall by Ian Buxton, Edited by 9781399082709
RRP: £25.00£17.62One of the most significant warship designers of the twentieth century, Sir Stanley Goodall rose through the ranks of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors to become its head in 1936. The Corps was responsible for every aspect of the design and... -
Yangtze Showdown: China and the Ordeal of HMS Amethyst by Brian Izzard 9781526782076
RRP: £12.99£9.09The attack on the British frigate Amethyst on the Yangtze River by Chinese Communists in 1949 made world headlines. There was even more publicity when the ship made a dramatic escape after being trapped for 101 days. Eulogised by the British as an... -
The Battleships, World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history: pre-dreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, battleships and battle cruisers from 1860 onwards, with 500 archive photographs by Peter Hore 9780754834595
RRP: £15.00£12.56An illustrated history of battleships, their origins and evolution, this meticulously researched book begins with a history of the battleship, from the first ironclad wooden-hulled ships of the 19th century to the revolutionary Dreadnoughts of World War... -
E-Boat vs MTB: The English Channel 1941-45 by Gordon Williamson
RRP: £15.99£13.33An examination of the 'small boat' war between the Germans and the British in the English Channel. During the Second World War, German E-Boats were so active in the English Channel that the narrow stretch of water became known as 'E-Boat Alley'. To... -
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £14.99£10.95A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime... -
The British Sailor of the First World War by Quintin Colville
RRP: £8.99£4.64How the Royal Navy saw off the U-boat challenge in the Great War, and the daily lives of its sailors. In 1914 Great Britain's navy was the largest and most powerful the world had ever seen - but what was the everyday experience of those who served in... -
The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade by A. E. Rooks
RRP: £25.00£16.99**Longlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Media Awards 2022**A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.Initially a slaving... -
The Silent Service: The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine Heroes by John Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.40One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission... -
ShipCraft 27 - British Sloops and Frigates of the Second World War by Les Brown
RRP: £16.99£12.28The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and... -
Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals: The Gallant Life of Commander D G H 'Jake' Wright DSC** Rnvr by Chris O'Flaherty
RRP: £17.99£11.67Derek 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 his education, he left school at 16 to join the global tea trade. Soon after he finished his training with... -
The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s by Ola Tunander
RRP: £53.99£47.27Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters.However, the evidence for these appears to have been manipulated or simply invented... -
From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Battleship, 1864-1918 by David M Sullivan 9781804511848
RRP: £59.95£42.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511848Author David M SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Hitler's Navy: The Kriegsmarine in World War II by Gordon Williamson
RRP: £30.00£20.95A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, during the 1930s, the German Navy underwent a programme of rearmament in defiance of the restrictions,... -
The Sea in Russian Strategy by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: £14.99£11.12For the first two decades after the Cold War, Russian naval power hardly featured in the Euro-Atlantic community's strategic thinking. This began to change in the mid-2010s, as the idea that the Russian navy poses a threat to NATO began to gain ground... -
British Escort Carriers 1941-45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline. Facing a shortage of traditional aircraft carriers and shore-based... -
Arctic Convoys 1941-1945 by Richard Woodman 9781844156115
RRP: £25.00£18.02During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is now well known, but few are aware of the... -
Soviet Cold War Attack Submarines: Nuclear classes from November to Akula by Dr Edward Hampshire
RRP: £11.99£8.43In this highly detailed book, naval historian Edward Hampshire reveals the fascinating history of the nuclear-powered attack submarines built and operated by the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including each class of these formidable craft as they... -
Admirals by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: £14.99£9.80The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives... -
Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History by Garzke Jr, William H 9781526759740
RRP: £65.00£48.37This new book on _Bismarck_ offers a forensic analysis of the design, operation and loss of Germany's greatest battleship and draws on survivors' accounts and the authors" combined decades of experience in naval architecture and command at sea. Their... -
Russian Battleships and Cruisers of the Russo-Japanese War by Mark Lardas
RRP: £11.99£8.43This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russo-Japanese War. The focus is on the battleships, coastal defence warships, and cruisers of the Pacific Squadron and Baltic Squadron that fought during the... -
What Happened to the Battleship: 1945 to the Present by Baker, Chris 9781399070089
RRP: £30.00£21.95In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 1945, with the surrender of Japan. Yet, on that day some ninety-eight battleships or ex-battleships might be... -
US Navy Gun Destroyers 1945–88: Fletcher class to Forrest Sherman class by Mark Stille 9781472855121
RRP: £12.99£9.09An illustrated history of the long Cold War careers of the US Navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized World War II-era Fletcher-class to the Forrest Sherman-class. The finest American destroyers of World War II had surprisingly long careers... -
The Naval History of Wales: Unleashing Britannia's Dragon by J.D. Davies 9781803994857
RRP: £15.99£11.96Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present.Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major... -
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: £14.99£9.80The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies... -
The Blue Water War: The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940-1945 by Brian E. Walter
RRP: £29.99£19.21For three millennia the Mediterranean Sea served as the center of western civilization and the scene of many colossal wars and naval battles. In the early summer of 1940, this ancient body of water again played host to a new and extensive conflict as the... -
Scapa 1919 by Innes McCartney
RRP: £30.00£21.95The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered... -
The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Chris McNab 9781612006574
RRP: £8.99£5.82"He is usually dressed rather like a tramp. His sweater is worn, his trousers frayed, while what was once a cap is perched askew on his tanned face. He wears no gold braid or gold buttons: neither does he jump to the salute briskly. Nobody goes out of... -
Guy Griffiths: The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral by Peter Jones
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922454683Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint ArcadiaPublisher Australian Scholarly Publishing