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Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium by Michael Paul Pitassi
RRP: £30.00£20.95The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and... -
The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900 by Duncan Redford
£55.27Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates. This book tells the story, not just of defeats and victories, but also of how the navy has adjusted to over 100 years of rapid technological and social change. The navy has... -
Spoils of War: The Fate of Enemy Fleets after the Two World Wars by Aidan Dodson 9781526741981
RRP: £35.00£25.89While a large number of books have dealt with the navies and war at sea during the World Wars, the immediate aftermaths have generally received only minimal coverage. However, the fates of defeated navies are of enormous interest from a number of... -
The Capture of U-505: The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944 by Mark Lardas
RRP: £14.99£10.95U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats. On June 4,... -
Fighting Sail: Fleet Actions 1775-1815 by Ryan Miller
RRP: £12.99£10.94In the years between 1776 and 1815, grand square-rigged sailing ships dominated warfare on the high seas. Fighting Sail is a tabletop wargame of fleet battles in this age of canvas, cannon, and timbers. Players take on the roles of fleet admirals in... -
Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher M. Bell 9780198702542
RRP: £28.99£21.72The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, the Dardanelles campaign has been mired in myth... -
Nelson at War 1914-1918: The History of the Nelson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division by R C Swales 9781526761149
£17.70The Royal Naval Division, a fighting formation of naval ratings and Royal Marines, was formed at the instigation of Winston Churchill at the beginning of the First World War. At first under the control of the Admiralty, it fought at the defence of... -
Cochrane: The Fighting Captain by Robert Harvey 9781841193984
£12.73The adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane... -
The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931 - April 1943: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 3 by Samuel Eliot Morison 9781591145493
£32.16Samuel Eliot Morison's monumental fifteen volume series, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, covering the complete record of the U.S. Navy during the war, is a critically acclaimed work of history. First published by Little Brown... -
Clydebank Battlecruisers: Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard Ian Johnston 9781399024891
RRP: £16.99£12.28Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design,... -
Forces of the Hanseatic League: 13th-15th Centuries Dr David Nicolle 9781782007791
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and... -
Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class by Gerhard Koop 9781848321922
RRP: £16.99£12.68The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the... -
Boatlines: Scottish Craft of Sea, Coast and Canal by Ian Stephen
RRP: £16.99£11.58People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so... -
Jane Slade of Polruan: The Inspiration for Du Maurier's First Novel by Helen Doe 9781850221623
RRP: £9.99£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850221623Author Helen DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint TruranPublisher TruranDimensions(mm) 240mm * 175mm * 15mm -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll 9780393343410
RRP: £19.99£15.52On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers... -
The British Battleship HMS Vanguard by Witold Koszela
RRP: £18.95£15.22The British battleship HMS "Vanguard" was built in the years 1941-1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships, and... -
HMS Defiance: Plymouth's Submarine Base by Keith Hall
RRP: £14.99£11.55Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe, covers 650 acres and has fifteen dry docks. There are 4 miles of waterfront, twenty-five tidal berths and five basins. Plymouth has had a naval base since 1691 and today Devonport is the base port of... -
Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: £13.99£10.84Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The... -
The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure by Dan Van der Vat
RRP: £10.99£7.38The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of World War I. Acclaimed naval military historian Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles not only prolonged... -
Battleships of the Bismarck Class by Gerhard Koop 9781848321977
RRP: £16.99£12.28The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the... -
Liberty's Provenance: The Evolution of the Liberty Ship from its Sunderland Origins by John Henshaw
RRP: £25.00£18.02The battle of the Atlantic, fought by the Allies to maintain lines of communication and vital trade routes for armaments, men and basic sustenance, could not have been won without the 2,710 Liberty ships that were designed and built for those critical... -
Allied Torpedo Boats: Shipcraft Special by John Lambert 9781848320604
RRP: £25.00£22.19The '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 class, highlighting differences between... -
Royal Navy Lynx by Larry Jeram-Croft
RRP: £25.00£18.62This book tells the story of an incredibly capable naval aircraft, based primarily on the words of those who flew and maintained it. Beginning with the Lynx's entry into service in 1976, it goes on to discuss its remarkable performance in the Falklands... -
To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman 9780060534257
RRP: £11.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060534257Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 567g -
Tsushima: Great Battles Series by Rotem Kowner 9780198831075
RRP: £26.49£18.61The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the... -
French Battleships 1914-45 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £12.99£9.09On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War I, spending most of it at anchor off the entrance to... -
An Illustrated History of Amphibious Warfare Vessels: A Complete Guide to the Evolution and Development of Landing Ships and Landing Craft, Shown in 220 Wartime and Modern Photographs Bernard Ireland 9781780192871
RRP: £7.99£5.79This title charts the history of amphibious warfare in conflicts around the globe, from World War I to the present day. It features conventional personnel and cargo carriers, welldeck "dock ships", modern multi-function ships, ramped beaching craft and... -
The Spanish Galleon: 1530-1690 by Angus Konstam
£9.79During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of Americas to Spain. This was the galleon, and over the next century these vessels would serve Spain well as treasure ships and war ships,... -
The US Marine Corps 1775–1859: Continental and United States Marines by Ron Field
RRP: £14.99£10.95Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment. The US Marine Corps' uniforms, personal... -
The Baltic Cauldron: Two Navies and the Fight for Freedom by Michael Ellis
RRP: £30.00£24.17The Baltic Cauldron commemorates several centuries of Anglo-Swedish relations, which, after events in Eastern Europe in 2022, have acquired a new resonance as a record of the struggle for survival and independence of nations bordering the Baltic. This is... -
Eagles over the Sea, 1943-45: A History of Luftwaffe Maritime Operations by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: £30.00£21.95This is the second volume of Lawrence Paterson's detailed account of all the Luftwaffe's naval operations during World War II. The first volume took the story up to 1942, and by the end of that year Hermann G ring's Reich Air Ministry had subsumed nearly... -
Roman Britain and the Roman Navy by David J. P. Mason 9780752425412
RRP: £25.00£18.54So much has been written about the Roman army in Britain that the vital role of the navy - both in support of the army and in the defence of this distant Roman province - has been largely overlooked. In providing the first comprehensive account of the... -
Operation Neptune: Naval Operations for the Normandy Landings 1944 by B B Schofield 9781399078511
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation NEPTUNE was the codeword for the naval side of the OVERLORD plan for the historic June 1944 landings in Normandy. Massive in its scale, its tasks were wide-ranging and varied, from beach reconnaissance, minesweeping, shore bombardment as well... -
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley
RRP: £16.99£14.61A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered... -
Rosyth Dockyard and Naval Base Through Time by Walter Burt
RRP: £15.99£10.85With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there. Construction work started in 1909 and the dockyard was finished in 1916, when... -
Byzantine Naval Forces 1261-1461: The Roman Empire's Last Marines by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £12.99£9.79After the recapture of Constantinople, Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos was determined to bring glory back to the Byzantine Empire. To achieve this, he established an Imperial Fleet and raised new regiments of elite marine troops. This work provides a... -
US Navy Destroyer Escorts of World War II by Mark Lardas
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Destroyer Escort was the smallest ocean- going escort built for the United States Navy - a downsized destroyer with less speed, fewer guns, and fewer torpedoes than its big brother, the fleet destroyer. Destroyer escorts first went into production... -
Landing Craft & Amphibians: Seaborne Vessels in the 20th Century by Skipper, Ben 9781399092135
RRP: £16.99£12.28From the wars of antiquity to the recent events in South West Asia, landing craft and amphibians have been an ever-present seaborne and battle space asset in one form or another for the commander wanting to get boots on the ground. Refined during the... -
The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy Richard Endsor 9781472838384
RRP: £65.00£47.87AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2020 Inspired by the recent discovery of mathematically calculated digital plans for a fourth-rate ship by the Deptford master shipwright, John Shish, The Master Shipwright's Secrets is an illustrated history of Restoration... -
Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy: A Complete History of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries by Steve Bush
RRP: £41.50£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526793782Author Steve BushFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint US Naval Institute PressPublisher US Naval Institute PressWeight(grams) 155g