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Cape Matapan 1941: Cunningham’s Mediterranean Triumph by Angus Konstam 9781472857231
RRP: $35.68$25.79The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina. The Battle of Matapan witnessed the first use of decisive new technologies to bring about a stunning British victory over... -
U-Boats in the Bahamas by Eric Wiberg 9781899694624
RRP: $75.50$57.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899694624Author Eric WibergFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower Press -
Battleships of World War I & World War II by E V Martindale
RRP: $37.78$26.02For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. The rise of the aircraft carrier following the Japanese aerial strike on... -
Italian Heavy Cruisers: From Trento to Bolzano by Maurizio Brescia
RRP: $84.00$61.72When the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 effectively banned the building of battleships, competition between the major navies concentrated on the next most powerful category, heavy cruisers limited to 10,000 tons displacement and 8-inch guns. Italy... -
Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793 - 1815 by Brian Lavery
RRP: $105.00$79.00Patrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of the most successful Conway Maritime title. This book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable... -
Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
RRP: $20.98$13.69A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. ... -
The Fighting Captain Alan Burn 9781399077279
RRP: $33.58$24.38Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two. He was a formidable figure and one of the... -
US Navy Battleships 1895–1908: The Great White Fleet and the beginning of US global naval power by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: $25.18$17.70The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: $37.78$31.98There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
British Battleships 1889 1904 by Burt, R A 9781399096560
RRP: $52.50$40.36This volume of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about... -
Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power by David Scott
RRP: $31.48$20.01In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study, David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might. Shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature 2013 ... -
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy 9780141983820 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$15.31Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural... -
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $27.28$19.09Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural... -
Battleship: The Greatest Fighting Ships in History Richard Hough 9781800325388
RRP: $23.08$14.70A compelling history of the greatest ships ever launched.The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships are built, counted, assessed and exercised with the same determination now as at the beginning of the... -
Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks Through Time by Clive Holden 9781445618999 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$12.37Chatham has had an association with the Royal Navy since Elizabethan times, moving to its current site in 1622. It provided the facilities to build, repair, maintain and supply ships. In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on expanding the dockyard... -
Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks Through Time by Clive Holden 9781445618999
RRP: $33.58$22.79Chatham has had an association with the Royal Navy since Elizabethan times, moving to its current site in 1622. It provided the facilities to build, repair, maintain and supply ships. In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on expanding the dockyard... -
Understanding Naval Warfare Ian Speller (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9781032223339
RRP: $75.58$66.55This 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... -
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945 by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: $94.50$66.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service by Eric Thompson
$31.84During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.Eric... -
Sunderland vs U-boat: Bay of Biscay 1943–44 by Mark Lardas 9781472854810
RRP: $33.58$24.38An illustrated examination of the role played by the Sunderland as an antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic, focusing on the key battles of the Biscay campaign in 1943-44. The Sunderland is an iconic British aircraft of World War... -
Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $39.88$29.42In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British... -
Cochrane by Donald Thomas
RRP: $23.08$15.54Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerThe life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Born the... -
How to Build an Aircraft Carrier: The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain's Biggest Warship to Life by Chris Terrill
RRP: $27.28$19.09Discover the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever aircraft carrier and SUBJECT OF THE MAJOR NEW BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES THE WARSHIP'Fascinating, often funny and sometimes moving . . . Terrill takes us deep into the... -
THE CANBERRA IN THE FALKLANDS: A Very Strange Way to go to War by Andrew Vine
RRP: $20.98$14.28This fascinating and insightful book tells the thrilling story of the SS Canberra, the luxury passenger liner which was requesitioned as a troop transport in the Falkands War.Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: $23.08$16.32Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this... -
German U-Boat Losses During World War II: Details of Destruction by Niestle, Axel 9781399082839
RRP: $35.68$25.79Hitler's U-boats fired some of the first shots of the Second World War, going on to threaten the Allies' maritime life lines until the very end of the fighting in Europe. Indeed, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of... -
The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Jon Wise 9781399041706
RRP: $52.50$37.00From the first recorded mention of British ships protecting of fishing vessels in the late fourteenth century through to recent controversies over the change in emphasis to border patrols and overseas deployments, the story of the Royal Navy's... -
The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard 9780367705305
RRP: $41.98$37.99In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of... -
Saxon, Viking and Norman by Terence Wise
$20.56If there is one thing we can be sure of concerning the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who inhabited the medieval world, it is that they were a good deal more advanced than some writings would have us believe. This fascinating book by Terence Wise explores... -
Nelson: The Sword of Albion Dr John Sugden 9781847922762
RRP: $73.50$54.37The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers. Here are Nelson's famous victories at the... -
The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War by Mark Stille
RRP: $27.28$23.12When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. Japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the IJN acquiring a fleet... -
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: $57.73$41.33From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two-"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."... -
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present FULLY UPDATED AND EXPANDED by Ben Warlow 9781526793270
RRP: $52.50$37.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class by Mark Stille
RRP: $27.28$19.09An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II. Before the start of World War II, the battleship was still king, and all the major powers... -
HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship by Matthew Betts 9781526783134
RRP: $63.00$44.00In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest... -
The Philippine Sea 1944: The last great carrier battle Mark Stille (Author) 9781472819208
RRP: $35.68$25.79After suffering devastating losses in the huge naval battles at Midway and the Soloman Islands, the Imperial Japanese navy attempted to counter-attack against the US forces threatening the Home Islands. Involving the US Fifth Fleet and the Japanese... -
Abandon Ship: The Real Story of the Sinkings in the Falklands War by Dr Paul Brown
RRP: $42.00$30.85AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021 This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982. When Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands in April 1982, the British... -
Soviet Motor Gunboats of World War II: The Red Army's 'river tanks' from Stalingrad to Berlin by Przemyslaw Budzbon 9781472857217
RRP: $27.28$19.09A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II. Russia's enormous river system has long been its highway and, as early as 1908, the Tsar's armies were developing armoured... -
Too Few Too Far: The True Story of a Royal Marine Commando by George Thomsen
RRP: $23.08$15.23British Commando George Thomsen's action-filled account of combat during the Falklands War. Seen through the eyes of Section Commander George Thomsen, this inspiring first-hand account, tells of the tension-packed lead up, and the heroic stand, by a tiny... -
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's revenge Angus Konstam 9781472833792
RRP: $52.50$37.84'A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history.' Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin...