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My Name is Frank: A merchant seaman talks by Frank Laskier 9781910146477
Booksplease Price: $6.93Frank Laskier was born 1912 and lived his early years in the suburbs of Liverpool. As a teenager, Frank was an avid reader of Conrad and Masefield and had a romantic view of the "call of the sea"... -
Douglas D-558 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71The six Douglas D-558 research aircraft, built as two variants, were produced for a US Navy and NACA collaborative project to investigate flight in the high subsonic and supersonic regimes and to... -
8 Weeks to SEALFIT: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Unconventional Training for Physical and Mental Toughness-Revised Edition by Mark Divine 9781250762177
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.16SEALFIT (tm) was developed by retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine for the unique and specialised needs of professionals seeking to reach their fullest potential. To be SEALFIT means you embody... -
The Philippine Sea 1944: The last great carrier battle Mark Stille (Author) 9781472819208
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63After 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... -
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, Special 10th Anniversary Edition - Revised and Updated by D. Michael Abrashoff
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29The legendary New York Times bestselling tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas.When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, it was... -
Tiger's Claw by Dale Brown 9781472107336
Booksplease Price: $32.78THE FIGHT FOR THE PACIFIC BEGINS . . .When China launches the first successful test of its deadly new Dong Feng-21D antiship ballistic missile, President Phoenix finds himself facing up to a terrible... -
A Dictionary of Naval Slang by Gerald O'Driscoll 9781800750654
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80For centuries the sailors of the Royal Navy have been famous for their colourful language. Trapped aboard leaky ships and creaking vessels for months, sometimes years, on end, the crews developed a... -
The Battlecruiser Hood by John Roberts
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.13The destruction of the HMS Hood by the Bismarck in 1941 was one of the most shocking episodes in the history of the Royal Navy. Built during World War I, the Hood was the largest, fastest and one of... -
Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781526711663
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.75The 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... -
Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors: a Guide for Family Historians by Simon Wills 9781848846517
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.79What was a merchant seaman's life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for... -
Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era by John Darrell Sherwood 9780814740361 [USED COPY]
RRP: $71.02Booksplease Price: $7.10It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early '70s: the Vietnam War or America's turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal... -
Whitney Navy Revolver: A Reference of the Models and Types, 1857-1866 by Daniel E. Williams, Jr.
RRP: $54.93Booksplease Price: $38.48This book is primarily a reference for the most famous revolver manufactured by Eli Whitney, Jr. during the late-1850s and throughout the American Civil War. The Whitney Navy Revolver documents the... -
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The Fort by Bernard Cornwell 9780007331741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.14'Captivate, kill or destroy the whole force of the enemy' was the order given to the American soldiers. THE FORT is the blistering new novel from worldwide bestseller Bernard Cornwell. ... -
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The Admirals' Game by David Donachie 9780749007805 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.73It was 1794. Lieutenant John Pearce, recently returned from the Atlantic, is caught between the constant feuding of two senior admirals. One puts him in a position of maximum danger while another... -
Blue Angels: The US Navy's Flight Demonstration Team, 1946 to the Present by Ken Neubeck 9780764356582
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.69A thorough photographic history of the US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team. Since 1946, the world-famous US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team has performed in airshows in... -
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AD and A-1 Skyraider: Douglas's "Spad" in Korea and Vietnam by David Doyle
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67Design work on the Skyraider began at the behest of the US Navy late in WWII. Production began in 1946, and the type made its combat debut in the hands of naval aviators during the Korean War. In the... -
The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.10'Captivate, kill or destroy the whole force of the enemy' was the order given to the American soldiers. THE FORT is the blistering new novel from worldwide bestseller Bernard Cornwell. ... -
US Navy Ships vs Japanese Attack Aircraft: 1941–42 by Mark Stille
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.08The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier- based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJN's carrier- based torpedo and dive- bombers showed their prowess again... -
USS Hornet (CV-8): From the Doolittle Raid and Midway to Santa Cruz by David Doyle 9780764358623
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle's raiders in the first US strike on Japan in May 1942, was the third and last... -
Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea by David Hart-Dyke 9781843545910
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.11Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller'Electric... Outstanding.' GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron... -
The Silent Service in World War II: The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived it by Michael Green
Booksplease Price: $36.25When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy had a total of 111 submarines. However, this fleet was not nearly as impressive as the number suggests. It was mostly a... -
Horizontal Collaboration by Navie
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912740017Author NavieFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint -
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Ship of Rome (Masters of the Sea) by John Stack 9780007285242 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.04Against a backdrop of the clash of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome's small, coastal... -
U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24) Liberator Squadrons: in Great Britain during World War II by Alan C. Carey 9780764317750
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $27.94Alan Carey's new book, his fifth on USN and USMC bomber units of the Second World War, is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated... -
Town Class Destroyers: A Critical Assessment by John Henshaw
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $20.80Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were... -
Deep Storm by Lincoln Child 9781472108234
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Former naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to diagnose a bizarre medical condition. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies on... -
SB2C Helldiver: Curtiss's Carrier-Based Dive Bomber in World War II by David Doyle 9780764359699
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67While initally labeled as a troublesome aircraft, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver went on to be noted for striking more Japanese targets than any other US Navy dive bomber. Despite this, the Helldiver was... -
Nagato-Class Battleships: IJN Super-Dreadnoughts Nagato and Mutsu Hans Lengerer 9780764369650
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.69A pictorial guide to the Imperial Japanese Navy's Nagato-class battleships, Nagato and Mutsu. The Nagato-class battleships, Nagato and Mutsu, were super-dreadnought-type vessels launched just... -
Balkan Glory: Thomas Kydd 23 by Julian Stockwin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $6.77'Balkan Glory is an epic chapter in the splendid Kydd canon, weaving knotty political gambits with stirring naval actions, expressively re-creating the often harsh reality Jack Tars witnessed within... -
Balkan Glory: Thomas Kydd 23 by Julian Stockwin 9781473698765
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45'Balkan Glory is an epic chapter in the splendid Kydd canon, weaving knotty political gambits with stirring naval actions, expressively re-creating the often harsh reality Jack Tars witnessed within... -
Captain of Rome (Masters of the Sea) by John Stack 9780007351442
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96The second installment in this thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas. Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of... -
Warship 11: PCE 1604 Series, Frigate Panter by Jantinus Mulder
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.96The six Frigate Panters were all built in the USA with MDAP funds. They were designed to escort slow coastal convoys in the Channel and North Sea areas and were operated as a single squadron by the... -
SBD Dauntless: Douglas's US Navy and Marine Corps Dive-Bomber in World War II by David Doyle 9780764358463
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67The Douglas Dauntless was the US Navy's frontline dive-bomber in the early days of WWII. Even after the larger and more powerful Helldiver joined the fleet in the later stages of the war, the... -
USS Nimitz (CVN-68): America's Supercarrier: 1975 to the Present by Sergio Santana
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67The nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Nimitz is the oldest carrier in the US fleet. Commissioned in 1975, CVN-68 is named after famed navy admiral Chester Nimitz and has been at the front line of many... -
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian 9780008355999
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. ... -
One Mission: How Leaders Build A Team Of Teams by Chris Fussell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In One Mission, former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell draws on his extensive experience of high-pressure team work to show how organizations can apply lessons from the field to successfully transform their... -
Britain's 20 Worst Military Disasters: From the Roman Conquest to the Fall of Singapore by John Withington 9780752461977
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.71Crecy, Agincourt, Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, El Alamein - the names trip off the tongue and resound through our history. Great British military victories, often won against the odds. But what of... -
Corsair: Vought's F4U in World War II and Korea by ,David Doyle 9780764355035
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67The F4U Corsair, designed by Vought and produced by that firm, as well as, Goodyear and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, would not only rack up an impressive 11:1 kill ratio against its foes in... -
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Live of the Stars by Scotty Bowers 9780802120557
Booksplease Price: $19.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802120557Author Scotty BowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Golden Jewel of King William III and Queen Mary II Chris Bulteel 9781836281832
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Benedict Miller is a humble Poole fisherman in love with his sweetheart, Alice, the daughter of a street preacher. But Benedict is seized by the Naval pressgang and taken to fight in sea battles...