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Gunboat Command by Antony Hichens 9781473822962
RRP: £16.99£12.68This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or 'Hitch' as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his... -
The Pirates of Malabar: Pirates of the Coast of the Indian Sub-Continent During the 17th & 18th Centuries by John Biddulph 9780857067548
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067548Author John BiddulphFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 204g -
Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in the Aegean, which the Germans controlled after the fall... -
Hello Sailor!: The hidden history of gay life at sea by Jo Stanley 9780582772144
RRP: £36.99£36.14When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's... -
Scottish Arctic Whaling by Chesley W. Sanger
RRP: £20.00£14.05Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen... -
They Were Just Skulls: The Naval Career of Fred Henley, Last Survivor of HM Submarine Truculent by John Johnson-Allen 9781849954044
RRP: £16.99£14.10Foreword by Admiral Lord West of Spithead Few people, even in the Navy, are even aware of this dreadful incident [the loss of submarine HMS Truculent in the Thames] and certainly not the details of human error that led to this huge loss of life. The... -
US Destroyers vs German U-Boats: The Atlantic 1941-45 Mark Lardas 9781472854100
RRP: £15.99£11.61An absorbing study of the duels fought between the US Navy's escort warships and Hitler's U-boats between December 1941 and May 1945. Although the Battle of the Atlantic lasted several years, its most critical phase began once the United States... -
British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail: 1649-1859 by David Hepper 9781399031028
RRP: £30.00£28.39This significant new reference book provides a complete list of the ships of the Royal Navy which were lost at sea in the age of sail. Arranged in chronological order, it includes outline details of each vessel lost and the circumstances of her loss... -
Soviet Cruise Missile Submarines of the Cold War Dr Edward Hampshire (Author) 9781472824998
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike... -
US Navy Frigates of the Cold War by Mark Stille
RRP: £11.99£8.43Though they were never the most glamorous of warships, found US Navy frigates were frequently found on the frontlines of the Cold War at sea. These warships were the descendants of World War II's destroyer escorts, designed primarily to escort convoys... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: £40.00£31.29John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Johnston, Ian 9781399092043
RRP: £19.99£14.28The launch in 1906 of HMS _Dreadnought_, the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked... -
World War II US Fast Carrier Task Force Tactics 1943-45 by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £14.99£10.95Drawing on difficult-to-access wartime documents and other contemporary sources, this is the first compact, illustrated study of the tactics and techniques of the US fast carriers of Task Forces 50, 58 and 38 during the naval war against Japan in 1943-45... -
Tracing Your Naval Ancestors by Simon Fowler 9781848846258
RRP: £12.99£9.09This concise guide to naval history and naval records is essential reading and reference for anyone researching the fascinating story of Britain's Navy and the men and women who served in it. Whether you are interested in the career of an individual... -
A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War - Joannes Wyllie of the steamer Ad-Vance by John F. Messner 9781849954822
RRP: £18.99£15.65Born in 1828 near Kelso in the Scottish Borders, Wyllie went to sea as an apprentice seaman in 1852 and quickly rose through the ranks. By 1862 he had gained his masters certificate in Liverpool, and there he took command of his first vessel, the Bonita... -
The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van der Vat
RRP: £9.99£6.52At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916 by Brian Lavery
RRP: £8.99£5.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860182Author W. M. James R.N.Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster by Norman Polmar 9781493027538
RRP: £12.99£11.46A must-read for submarine buffs! On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor... -
Fleet Air Arm Handbook 1939-1945 by David Wragg
RRP: £20.00£15.44Fleet Air Arm Handbook is the most comprehensive review available of the Royal Navy's air power during the war years. Starting with a brief history, the book progresses with a full war diary of all the major operations in a gripping narrative account. We... -
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 by Benerson Little 9781574889116
RRP: £16.99£13.92To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic cliche?. And what an... -
The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries: Naval Commanders Report and Protest Death Marches and Massacres in Turkey's Pontus Region, 1921-1922 by Savvas "sam" Koktzoglou
RRP: £24.95£16.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011803Author Savvas Sam KoktzoglouFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans... -
Sink the Tirpitz 1942-44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £16.99£14.62This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys... -
Running a Big Ship: The Classic Guide to Managing a Second World War Battleship by Rory O'Conor 9781910860199
RRP: £12.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860199Author Rory O'ConorFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
1944–45: The Freedom Road by Richard Collier 9781800325951
RRP: £12.99£8.18The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory.From the... -
Beyond Endurance: an Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict by Nick Barker 9780850528794
RRP: £12.95£9.07The campaign to re-take the Falkland Islands in 1982, was one of the most remarkable episodes in the long history of British overseas adventures. Nearly all the books that have appeared in the ensuing years have dealt with the campaign itself. Nicholas... -
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas 9780743258043
RRP: £20.00£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743258043Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 156mm... -
Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-18 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £12.99£11.01At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole - the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left the Ottoman Navy with a mix of obsolete vessels, whilst... -
The Naval Brigade in South Africa During the Kafir and Zulu Wars 1877-79 by Henry F Norbury 9780857066817
£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066817Author Henry F NorburyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 358g -
US Navy Gunboats 1885-1945 Brian Lane Herder 9781472844705
RRP: £11.99£8.43A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often... -
The Trafalgar Chronicle: No. 2: New Series by Peter Hore 9781473899766
RRP: £20.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era Benjamin Armstrong 9781612512433
£29.56Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today's problems. This collection of five of Mahan's essays, along with... -
The Fighting at Jutland: The Personal Experiences of 45 Sailors of the Royal Navy at the Great Battle at Sea, 1916, During the First World War by H W Fawcett 9780857064226
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064226Author H W FawcettFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 376g -
Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883-2019: Volume 2 - Battleships and “New Navy” Monitors by Venner F Milewski
RRP: £35.00£24.29The second in a three-volume series which provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each... -
Soviet Cold War Guided Missile Cruisers by Edward Hampshire
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fully illustrated study of the Soviet Navy's biggest and most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War. Heavily armed and formidable, guided missile cruisers formed the core of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. From the last class of... -
Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide by Derrick Wright
RRP: £16.99£14.50The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering... -
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War by Reinhard Scheer 9781848322097
£38.62Anglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £30.00£18.80Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally... -
Combat Divers: An illustrated history of special forces divers by Michael G. Welham
RRP: £35.00£26.45The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day. Combat divers are an elite within an elite. Every special forces combat diver is required to pass selection twice - first into the elite military unit and... -
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... -
U.S. Navy Auxiliary Vessels: A History and Directory from World War I to Today by Ken W. Sayers 9781476672564
RRP: £31.99£26.83For more than a century, the U.S. Navy's battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and amphibious warfare vessels have depended on a small group of specialized auxiliary ships to provide fuel, food, ammunition, parts and other material support and...