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U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat by Brent Droste Sadler
RRP: €47.54€39.45This nation's Cold War and Global War on Terror defense structures need an update. U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century provides such a framework for the changed world we live in, offering a detailed roadmap that shows how the United States can field a... -
HMS Defiance: Plymouth's Submarine Base by Keith Hall
RRP: €17.84€13.42Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe, covers 650 acres and has fifteen dry docks. There are 4 miles of waterfront, twenty-five tidal berths and five basins. Plymouth has had a naval base since 1691 and today Devonport is the base port of... -
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler's Mightiest Warship by Patrick Bishop
RRP: €17.84€11.34A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship - the legendary Tirpitz - and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi's fearsome war machine. Tirpitz was the... -
The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean
RRP: €15.46€10.82In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 times greater than Hiroshima, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. The Soviet Navy used ships, subs and planes... -
Nelson at War 1914-1918: The History of the Nelson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division by R C Swales 9781526761149
€21.96The Royal Naval Division, a fighting formation of naval ratings and Royal Marines, was formed at the instigation of Winston Churchill at the beginning of the First World War. At first under the control of the Admiralty, it fought at the defence of... -
Hitler's Attack U-Boats: The Kriegsmarine's Submarine Strike Force by Showell, Jak P Mallmann 9781526797667
RRP: €17.84€13.51The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain's vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an... -
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle by Nicholas Jellicoe
RRP: €20.22€15.09More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle. What was in fact a strategic victory stands out... -
Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar by Mark Stille
RRP: €19.03€13.82In October 1944, the US prepared to invade the Philippines to cut Japan off from its resource areas in Southeast Asia. The Japanese correctly predicted this, and prepared a complex operation to use the remaining strength of its navy to defend its... -
Italian Assault Craft, 1940-1945: Human Torpedoes and other Special Attack Weapons by Erminio Bagnasco 9781399056083
RRP: €41.65€28.91In stark contrast to the rather modest performance of its large surface fleet in the Second World War, the Italian Navy's smallest units achieved its most spectacular successes. It made a speciality of unconventional methods of attack - explosive motor... -
Shipcraft 22: German Battlecruisers by Steve Backer
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, highlighting differences between... -
HM Naval Base: Clyde by Keith Hall
RRP: €15.46€11.15The Clyde submarine base was officially commissioned in 1967. The Faslane site had originally been used as a military port during the Second World War and was built and manned by the army. HMS Adamant, the Depot ship of the 3rd Submarine Squadron, first... -
Black Water: By Strength and By Guile by Don Camsell
RRP: €19.03€13.82Don Camsell joined the men in black of the SBS in 1974. From the deserts of Oman to the hills of Port Stanley, from the bottom of Gibraltar harbour to the deep, cold, black waters of Loch Long and from the QE2 to the back alleys of Belfast, his new role... -
Crisis at the Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America 1775-1783 by Quintin Barry
RRP: €29.75€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336530Author Quintin BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Shetland 'bus' by Stephen Wynn
RRP: €23.79€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526735355Author Stephen WynnFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 152g -
British Motor Gun Boat 1939-45 by Angus Konstam 9781849080774
RRP: €15.46€13.10Motor Gun Boats were the Spitfires of the Seas of the Royal Navy. Bristling with small-calibre guns and machine guns, they served in a variety of roles during the War. In the early war period they battled against German E-boats in the English Channel,... -
From War to Peace: The Conversion of Naval Vessels After Two World Wars by Nick Robins
RRP: €29.75€21.44_From War to Peace_ tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It... -
Italian Destroyers of World War II by Mark Stille
RRP: €14.27€10.03A new illustrated history and analysis of Italy's World War II destroyers, a formidable foe for Allied forces attempting to attack the sea lanes between Italy and North Africa. The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marine or RM) began the Second World War... -
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942-March 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: €20.22€15.09From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the height of World War II. Cox's previous book, Morning Star, Rising Sun, had found the US Navy at its absolute... -
China's New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People's Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War by Xiaobing Li 9781682477755
RRP: €41.59€34.25A survey of Chinese naval operational history, Li's book focuses on the major battles and important engagements of more than 1,200 Chinese naval operations from 1949-2009, including the joint landing campaigns in the Taiwan Strait Crises, naval battles... -
The British Battleship HMS Vanguard by Witold Koszela
RRP: €22.55€18.87The British battleship HMS "Vanguard" was built in the years 1941-1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships, and... -
Ship Spotter's Guide by Angus Konstam
RRP: €8.32€6.10Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. From the Viking longship, pirate ships and super dreadnoughts to today's nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, naval warfare has proved to be an essential... -
British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century by Andrew Boyd 9781526736598
RRP: €41.65€30.10This is the first comprehensive account of how intelligence influenced and sustained British naval power from the mid nineteenth century, when the Admiralty first created a dedicated intelligence department, through to the end of the Cold War. It brings... -
United States Naval Aviation 1911-2014 by Michael Green 9781473822252
RRP: €17.84€13.03From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes and a major aircraft carrier build was underway. ... -
The Two Headed Whale by Sandy Winterbottom
RRP: €17.84€11.88Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was... -
Dazzle: Disguise & Disruption in War & Art by James Taylor 9781910860144
RRP: €23.80€15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860144Author Taylor JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
Seaforth World Naval Review: 2021 by Conrad Waters
RRP: €41.65€29.38For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, combining regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments... -
European Ironclads 1860-75 by Angus Konstam
RRP: €14.27€10.03From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare. When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the... -
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World by Will Sofrin
RRP: €23.80€16.20A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles to HollywoodIn the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series-the Aubrey-Maturin series, which was set... -
The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
RRP: €17.79€13.33The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg,... -
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- And Western Civilization by Barry Strauss
€15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244510Author Barry StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Large Scale Warship Models: From Kits to Scratch Building by Kerry Jang
RRP: €29.75€21.44The majority of warship modellers work in smaller scales, most often based on plastic or resin kits. Many of these harbour ambitions to tackle something larger and more demanding, but are daunted by the challenge. The aim of this book is to persuade them... -
U-Boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang Luth by Jordan Vause 9781784382742
RRP: €20.22€16.15Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men to win Germany s highest combat decoration. He operated in almost every theatre of the undersea war from Norway to the Indian Ocean and he was the second most successful German U-boat ace in World War II. Luth is... -
The Japanese Cruiser Asama by Aleksander Suchaniewicz
RRP: €30.88€19.53"Azuma" was one of the six armored cruisers built under the programme. Four of them were built by the British Armstrong shipyard, but "Azuma" was ordered in France, and its sister vessel, the "Yakumo", in Germany. Both cruisers were to carry British... -
British Submarines: in the Cold War Era by Norman Friedman
RRP: €59.50€44.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aircraft Carriers, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history of amphibious warfare and the landing crafts used by seabourne forces, from the Gallipoli campaign to the present day by Bernard Ireland 9780754835714
RRP: €17.85€13.04This impressive, newly-updated encyclopedia is both a fascinating history of aircraft carrier development and a well-documented visual directory of more than 150 of the world's aviation ships spanning a period of almost 120 years. The book's coverage... -
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: €15.46€10.23The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy... -
The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival by David Howarth 9781493032945
RRP: €17.84€17.66From the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees-all under constant threat by German U-boats and... -
Anzio: The Friction of War by Lloyd Clark
RRP: €13.08€8.81This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'. ANZIO - THE... -
German Naval Camouflage Volume II: 1942 - 1945 by Eric Leon 9781848322233
RRP: €41.65€29.38This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012 the 1939-1941 volume was quickly recognised by warship enthusiasts and modelmakers as a... -
Battleship Duke of York: An Anatomy from Building to Breaking by Ian Buxton
RRP: €53.55€39.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526777294Author Ian BuxtonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint US Naval Institute PressPublisher US Naval Institute PressWeight(grams) 305g