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Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
RRP: €23.80€17.48'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the... -
Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
RRP: €15.46€10.19'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen... -
Henry V's Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422 by Ian Friel
RRP: €15.46€11.15Without Henry V's Navy, the Battle of Agincourt would never have happened. Henry's fleet played a major - if often unrecognised - part in enabling the king to come within reach of final victory in the Hundred Years War against France. Henry's navy was... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom by Iain Ballantyne
RRP: €13.08€8.33Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.'May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's... -
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: €17.84€12.14SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds... -
Tales from the Captain's Log by The National Archives
RRP: €29.75€22.16For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives... -
USN Submarine vs IJN Antisubmarine Escort: The Pacific, 1941-45 by Mark Stille
RRP: €17.84€13.03This fully illustrated study examines and compares the roles of the US Navy submarines and the Imperial Japanese Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities during World War II. In 1941 and 1942, US Navy submarine operations in the Pacific were largely... -
Spanish Galleon vs English Galleon: 1550–1605 by Mark Lardas
RRP: €16.65€11.60Between 1550-1600, Europe witnessed a rapid evolution in the art of ship design which enabled safer and more efficient transatlantic travel. This was the pinnacle of the Age of Discovery and Exploration for the European powers, in which the galleon... -
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage by Martin Robson
RRP: €11.89€7.76As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English language conversation and writing. But how many landlubbers know that they derive... -
First in Last out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
RRP: €23.80€15.30The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of post-war Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of... -
Der Kapitan: U-Boat Ace Hans Rose by Markus Robinson
RRP: €23.80€16.35Hans Rose was one of Germany's most successful WWI U-boat aces, and her most successful ace during the convoy period when attacks by U-boats were most difficult and dangerous. Acknowledging his chivalry, Admiral Sims USN declared 'Allied naval officers... -
U-Boat Owners' Workshop Manual: An insight into the design, construction and operation of the most advanced attack submarine ever operated by the Royal Navy by Alan Gallop 9780857334046
RRP: €35.70€25.41ALAN GALLOP is an author, journalist and public relations consultant. His books include Buffalo Bill's British Wild West (2001), Children of the Dark (2002), Mr Stanley I Presume (2004), Time Flies: Heathrow at 60 (2005), Subsmash (2007), The Martians... -
Secrets of the Conqueror: The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine by Stuart Prebble
RRP: €15.46€10.19HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam 9781849080798
RRP: €15.46€11.35With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal, its first-ever purpose-built aircraft carrier. This was quickly followed by others, including the... -
Fips Legendary U-boat Commander by Geoffrey Brooks 9780850526943
RRP: €20.17€14.59Weuner Furbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading... -
The Last British Battleship: HMS Vanguard, 1946-1960 by Burt, R A
RRP: €41.65€30.10The ninth HMS _Vanguard_, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honours from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain's battleships and was commissioned in 1946/. Her design evolved from of the King George V... -
U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War by Franz Kurowski
RRP: €17.84€13.03Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training took place on Finnish and Spanish submarines and U-boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards... -
Battleships Yamato and Musashi by Janusz Skulski
RRP: €53.55€41.65A uniquely detailed visual representation of the legendary Japanese warships. Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the US... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22€14.61Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries,... -
In the King's Name by Alexander Kent 9780099528265
RRP: €11.89€8.46It is January 1819, and Captain Adam Bolitho ships out from Falmouth bound for Freetown, on the old the slave coast of Africa. H.M.S. Onward carries sealed orders in the strongbox below deck. But why all the secrecy and apparent urgency? And why Onward,... -
The Fighting Temeraire: Legend of Trafalgar (Hearts of Oak Trilogy Vol.1) by Sam Willis
RRP: €20.22€13.73J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1838) was his masterpiece. Sam Willis tells the real-life story behind this remarkable painting. The 98-gun Temeraire warship broke through the French and Spanish line... -
Understanding Naval Warfare by Ian Speller 9781032223339
RRP: €42.83€37.71This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant... -
Naval Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War at Sea, 1939-1945 by James Goulty 9781399000710
RRP: €29.75€20.97Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's... -
Flying with the Navy: The Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm in Stunning Rare Photographs by Steve Bond 9781911714033
RRP: €33.32€23.35During five years of research for the four volumes of the Fleet Air Arm Boys book series covering the post-war FAA, former personnel not only contributed a huge quantity of stories but also sent many thousands of photographs, largely taken by themselves,... -
The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific: Strategy, Order, and Regional Security by Catherine L. Grant 9781647123383
RRP: €131.50€114.11A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll 9780393343410
RRP: €23.79€21.10On 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... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1945–2010 by Angus Konstam
RRP: €15.46€10.82The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the... -
Warships in the Spanish Civil War by Angus Konstam
RRP: €14.27€10.03This detailed study of the naval Spanish Civil War describes how the Spanish Navy, torn in two and comprising a Republican and Nationalist part, fought a civil war at sea involving both Hitler's and Mussolini's navies. In July 1936, a pro-fascist coup... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Two: Strike, Anti-Submarine, Early Warning and Support Aircraft since 1945 True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew by Steve Bond
RRP: €29.75€20.97Since the end of World War 2 the primary role of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner... -
Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars by Vincent O'Hara
RRP: €43.97€36.62Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars, studies how the world's navies incorporated new technologies into their ships, their practices, and their doctrine. It does this by examining six core technologies fundamental to twentieth-century naval... -
Soviet Naval Infantry 1917–91 by David Greentree
RRP: €17.84€13.03Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991. Featuring eight plates of specially commissioned artwork alongside... -
HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy by Daniel Knowles 9781781557235
RRP: €42.84€31.73For over twenty years the battlecruiser HMS 'Hood' toured the world as the most iconic warship in the Royal Navy. Unmatched in her beauty and charisma, 'Hood' is one of history's greatest warships. During the twilight years of the British Empire the... -
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland by David Hare
RRP: €32.12€24.44The Great Lighthouses of Ireland is a collection of striking images and fascinating stories about the lighthouses around Ireland's coast and the extraordinary men and women who lived and worked in them. The book, published to accompany the TV series... -
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
RRP: €17.84€12.02Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks,... -
USS New Jersey (BB62): From World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Museum Ship by David Doyle 9780764356636
RRP: €22.60€15.08Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only battleship of any nation to see service during the Vietnam War. Following service in Vietnam, New Jersey... -
British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939–45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: €15.46€10.82A history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain's lifeline to the United States. As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer, Britain and the Commonwealth needed large quantities of... -
Yangtze River Gunboats 1900-49 by Angus Konstam
RRP: €15.46€13.10From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of... -
The Penobscot Expedition: Commodore Saltonstall and the Massachusetts Conspiracy of 1779 by George E. Buker 9781608933563
RRP: €15.46€11.14In 1779 the fledgling U.S. naval fleet suffered a catastrophic defeat against the British in the waters of the Penobscot Bay, losing forty ships in a battle that was expected to be a sure victory for the Americans. Commodore Dudley Saltonstall was blamed... -
The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918 by Colin Partridge 9781783276554
RRP: €95.20€91.17Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel. The Channel Islands have played a key role in both naval warfare and Anglo-French diplomacy, but this has not always been... -
Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson
RRP: €23.80€18.30In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage - the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph...