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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 Greenie: The History of Warfare Technology in the Royal Navy by Patrick A. Moore 9780752460161
RRP: £25.00£18.55In the Royal Navy vernacular, the term 'greenie' describes the officers and ratings responsible for the electrical engineering functions of the fleet. Electrical engineering has 'driven' the Royal Navy for far longer than one might imagine, from solving... -
Fleet Air Arm Handbook 1939-1945 by David Wragg
RRP: £20.00£15.11Fleet 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... -
Nightmare at Scapa Flow: The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak" by H.J. Weaver
RRP: £7.99£5.69"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS... -
Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919-45 1: Minekaze to Shiratsuyu Classes by Mark Stille
RRP: £12.99£11.01This volume will detail the history, weapons and tactics of the Japanese destroyers built before the war. This includes the famous Fubuki class (called "Special Type" by the Japanese, which were, when completed in the late 1920's, the most powerful class... -
From Cyprus to Lepanto: History of the Events, Which Occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought against the Venetians by Selim the Ottoman, to the Day of the Great and Victorious Battle against the Turks by Giovanni Pietro Contarini 9781599103822
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103822Author Giovanni Pietro ContariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
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 -
Warship 2022 by John Jordan
£48.73A celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of the world's warships. For 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power by Geoffrey Moorhouse
RRP: £10.99£7.40Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from Henry VII, yet at his own death the King's Navy had 53... -
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£17.53Apologies 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... -
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... -
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... -
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: £25.00£16.65The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu - a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery. In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small... -
21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era by Benjamin Armstrong 9781612512433
RRP: £25.95£21.04Alfred 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... -
US Navy Gunboats 1885-1945 by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £11.99£8.84A 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... -
Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War, November 1941-March 1942 by Vincent O'Hara 9781682474600
RRP: £38.95£32.35Six Victories examines one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the war on traffic in the Mediterranean during the fall and winter of 1941-42. It is a cautionary tale of how sea power was practiced, and how it shifted... -
Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883-2019: Volume 2 - Battleships and “New Navy” Monitors by Venner F Milewski
RRP: £35.00£21.79The 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... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £30.00£19.52Esteemed 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... -
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... -
King George V Class Battleships: Shipcraft 2 by Roger Chesneau 9781848321144
RRP: £14.99£10.95The '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... -
Kongo-Class Battleships: In the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: £22.99£15.05The battleships of the Kongo class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classified as battle cruisers, the lead ship in the class, Kongo, was built in England just prior to WWI. The... -
Pearl: December 7, 1941 by Daniel Allen Butler
RRP: £25.00£15.84What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later,... -
The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War: Culture and Strategy by Alastair Finlan
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book suggests that institutional culture can account for a great deal of the activities and rationale of the Royal Navy. War highlights the role of culture in military organizations and as such acts as a spotlight by which this phenomenon can be... -
Armoured Cruiser Cressy: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans by Andrew Choong
RRP: £30.00£21.95The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781526711663
RRP: £19.99£14.28The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on 3 September 1939. For the duration of the War Britain's... -
Stripes and Types of the Royal Navy: A Little Handbook of Sketches by Naval Officers Showing the Dress and Duties of All Ranks from Admiral to Boy Signaller by Robert Blyth
RRP: £9.99£6.85Originally published in 1909 to 'interest and educate the public mind in the men who constitute the first line of our defensive forces', this series of beautiful illustrations and quaint descriptions explains the jobs behind the uniforms. From the... -
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans by Admiral James Stavridis
RRP: £19.00£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220614Author Admiral James StavridisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm)... -
US Navy Cold War Guided Missile Cruisers by Mark Stille
RRP: £11.99£8.43Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War, and with the recent memory of the kamikaze threat from World War II, the USN placed a great priority on developing air defence... -
Ship Decoration 1630-1780 by Andrew Peters 9781848321762
RRP: £30.00£21.95This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work - figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design - carried by the ships of the major maritime states of Europe in the zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and... -
US Standard-type Battleships 1941-45 (1) by Mark Stille
RRP: £11.99£8.43Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed investigation into the histories of each of the warships in the Standard-type battleship classes, the first... -
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... -
The Warrior Elite by Captain (Retd.) Dick Couch
RRP: £15.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400046959Author Dick CouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
German Battleship Helgoland: as detailed in the original builders' plans by Aidan Dodson
£38.36Alongside its incomparable archive of British warship plans, the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich also holds a selection of drawings from foreign sources. Among the gems of this collection are a number of German warships dating from the First World... -
Dutch Navies of the 80 Years' War 1568-1648 by Bouko de Groot
RRP: £10.99£7.77The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish empire by fighting and winning the Eighty Years' War, from 1568 and 1648. In this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in... -
High Hulls: Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Bain 9781781556917
RRP: £40.00£28.39For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his latest book for Fonthill, Charles Bain looks at the... -
Liberty Ships: America's Merchant Marine Transport in World War II by David Doyle 9780764359590
RRP: £18.99£12.67Although not a weapon in the traditional sense of the word, arguably no item in the Allied arsenal contributed as much to the defeat of the Axis during WWII as did the Liberty ships. The 2,710 Liberty ships placed into service between 1941 and 1945... -
US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol. 1: The LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, LCS(L), LCM and LCI by David Doyle 9780764358616
RRP: £18.99£12.67No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the landing craft he perfected. Those craft, the WWII LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, and LCM, are presented in this volume (the first of two on... -
Shipyard at War by Ian Johnston 9781848322165
RRP: £30.00£21.95Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and the completion of the wartime programmes in 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels - major warships down to destroyers and submarines,... -
Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II by Brown, D K 9781399020046
RRP: £16.99£12.68Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no...