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Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II by Brown, D K 9781399020046
RRP: €20.22€15.09Winston 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... -
Ss Red Oak Victory by Mariusz Motyka 9788366673526
RRP: €30.88€19.53The SS Red Oak Victory is now a museum ship in Richmond, California. It is a cargo ship of the type Victory. It was put into service at the end of 1944 and remained in service until 1968.The ship was built in three months at the large Permanente Metals... -
The World of the Battleship: The Design and Careers of Capital Ships of the World's Navies 1900-1950 by Bruce Taylor 9781848321786
RRP: €47.60€36.64This new volume is intended to present a genuinely global vision of the development of world's battleships. In a collection of chapters by experts from around the world, the design, building and career of a significant battleship from each of the world's... -
The Battlecruiser New Zealand: A Gift to Empire by Matthew J Wright
RRP: €29.75€21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526784032Author Matthew J WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint US Naval Institute PressPublisher US Naval Institute PressWeight(grams) 155g -
How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power by Geoffrey Till 9780367607968
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected,... -
Rank and Rate: Royal Naval Officers' Insignia Since 1856 by E. C. Coleman 9781847971388
RRP: €23.74€19.56For over a century and a half, since the Uniform Regulations of 1856 were introduced, identification of rank amongst officers in the Royal Navy, its branches and its reserves has not been restricted to a single, or even small number, of insignia. Rank... -
When the Shooting Stopped: August 1945 by Barrett Tillman
RRP: €29.75€21.44"Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account." Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire In the 44 months between December 1941 and August 1945, the Pacific Theater absorbed the attention of the American nation... -
HMS Cavalier: Destroyer 1944 by Richard Johnstone-Bryden
RRP: €17.84€13.03HMS Cavalier is a 'C'-Class destroyer, one of 96 War Emergency Programme destroyers that were ordered between 1940 and 1942. She saw action on convoy duty off Russia, and later, in 1945, was sent to the Far East where she provided naval gunfire support... -
The Secret Agent and the Informer: The Burney Brothers of Hay at War by Hugh Purcell 9781800991859
RRP: €17.84€16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991859Author Hugh PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 27mm -
Mersey Ports: Liverpool & Birkenhead by Ian Collard 9780752421100
RRP: €17.84€13.42The busy River Mersey and its two ports, Liverpool and Birkenhead, have seen great changes in recent years. In Mersey Ports - Liverpool and Birkenhead, Ian Collard charts the developments that have taken place in maritime life on the Mersey, from the... -
Churchill's Atlantic Convoys: Tenacity & Sacrifice by William Smith 9781399050975
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Darkest Hour, Volume 1: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean by Michal A Piegzik
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070616Author Michal A PiegzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Home of the Fleet: A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in Photographs by Stephen Courtney 9780752449425
RRP: €17.84€13.42During the past century, the Royal Navy and its support services at Portsmouth dockyard have experienced a pace of change not seen since the fifteenth century. This book examines the impact of that change on the ships, buildings and personnel of the... -
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: Shipcraft 20 by Steve Backer
€19.59The '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... -
German Destroyers 1939-45 by Gordon Williamson
RRP: €15.46€13.10The German destroyer fleet of World War II consisted of nine classes: the Von Roeder Class, the Leberecht Maas Class and the wartime classes Z23, Z35, Z37, Z40, Z43, Z46 and Z52. These vessels, though fewer in number than the British destroyer fleet,... -
From East of Suez to the Eastern Atlantic: British Naval Policy 1964-70 by Edward Hampshire
RRP: €59.49€51.77Exploring British naval policy during the first two governments of Harold Wilson (1964-70), this book analyses how the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Navy's professional leadership dealt with six years of defence reviews, retrenchment... -
World War I Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers by Mark Lardas
RRP: €15.46€13.10In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to... -
Austro-Hungarian Battleships 1914-18 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: €15.46€13.10Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coastline. As its merchant marine dramatically grew,... -
Ireland's Pirate Trail: A Quest to Uncover Our Swashbuckling Past by Des Ekin
RRP: €16.65€13.03Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight. Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an... -
Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines by Norman Polmar
RRP: €35.69€28.01Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for "spying" and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many... -
American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: €9.51€6.89This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's... -
The Modern Cruiser: The Evolution of the Ships that Fought the Second World War by Robert C Stern
RRP: €41.65€30.10Cruisers probably vary more in their characteristics than any other warship type and have certainly been subject to the most convoluted development. There was always a basic tension between quantity and quality, between numbers and unit size, but at a... -
A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America by Dr Phillip Reid
RRP: €101.15€96.75Uses rare surviving records, including fully intact logbooks, to situate the customs-enforcement interceptor Sultana within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. The small Boston-built schooner Sultana served as a... -
USS Saratoga (CV-3): From the 1920s 30s and WWII Combat, to Operation Crossroads by David Doyle
RRP: €27.36€17.43USS Saratoga and her sister ship USS Lexington were the two largest aircraft carriers in the world until 1944. The keel of the battle cruiser USS Saratoga (CC-3) was laid by New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, on September 25, 1920. Work on the... -
Yamato Class Battleships by Steve Wiper 9781848320451
RRP: €17.84€13.03The '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, then moves to an extensive photographic... -
Iran-Iraq Naval War: Volume 1: 1980-1982 by Ted Hooton 9781914377204
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377204Author Ted HootonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battleships by Peter Hore 9780754829812
RRP: €11.89€10.20This is an illustrated history of battleships, their origins and evolution. It covers Pre-Dreadnoughts, Dreadnoughts, battleships and battle cruisers from 1860 onwards. Specification boxes provide at-a-glance information about each ship's country of... -
Armed Forces of the United Kingdom 2014-2015 by Charles Heyman 9781783463510
€16.11This book has been published at regular intervals during the last 20 years, and the latest 2014 - 2015 addition is the one that deals with the most far reaching changes the UK Armed Forces have gone through for a generation. Although the UK's Armed... -
The World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Carriers and Naval Aircraft: Features 1100 Wartime and Modern Identification Photographs by Bernard Ireland 9781780194394
RRP: €14.27€12.73This meticulously researched and illustrated book focuses on the evolution of aircraft carriers and naval aircraft. It features chronological histories and comprehensive directories of the world's most important aviation ships and aircraft, including the... -
Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001 by Norman Polmar 9781574885309
€42.03Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened... -
Gunboats of World War I by Angus Konstam
RRP: €15.46€13.10Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far from the naval epicentre of the war than were ever... -
Battle of the River Plate by Gordon Landsborough 9781473878952
€26.43At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser - 'I think it is a pocket battleship.' It was. The Deutschland-class heavy... -
Thinking Wisely, Planning Boldly: The Higher Education and Training of Royal Navy Officers, 1919-39 by Joseph Moretz 9781909982901
RRP: €59.44€42.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982901Author Joseph MoretzFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
US Heavy Cruisers 1943-75 by Mark Stille
RRP: €15.46€13.10This title follows on from a companion book covering the US heavy cruisers that were built prior to the war, together forming the definitive guide to the US's heavy cruiser classes. Versatile warships, the heavy cruisers of the Baltimore class, and their... -
The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters: Linchpin of Victory 1935 1942 by Boyd, Andrew 9781399096546
RRP: €17.84€13.51This important work tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of the Second World War; it explains why this contribution, made while Russia's fate... -
Illustrated World Guide to Submarines by John Parker
€20.99This is a complete encyclopedia of underwater vessels throughout history, from the Nautilus and Hunley to the nuclear-powered submarines of today. It charts a century of submarine development, from the earliest attempts to travel beneath the waves, two... -
Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea by Kathleen Broom Williams
RRP: €33.26€20.67When Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. Navy in 1986, she was the first woman restricted line officer to reach flag rank and, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy. A mathematician by training who became a... -
US Navy's Fast-Attack Submarines, Vol. 2: Seawolf Class SSN-21-Virginia Class SSN-774 by ,James,C. Goodall 9780764359729
RRP: €38.07€24.99Successors to the US Navy's Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines (presented in volume 1), the Seawolf- and Virginia-class SSNs are presented here from their initial design and construction, through testing and trials, to current operations. From its... -
Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships by Kure Maritime Museum
RRP: €101.15€83.63The Naval Institute Press will publish the much sought after six volumes of the Kure Maritime Museum's The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album series. Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album contains photographs officially taken by the Kure... -
Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy by Rear Adm. Dave Oliver USN Ret.
RRP: €30.88€25.04Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm. Hyman Rickover made a unique impact on American and Navy culture. The driving force behind the Navy's nuclear submarine fleet, Rickover revolutionized naval warfare while concurrently...