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Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail, 1700-1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates by Rif Winfield
RRP: $149.08Booksplease Price: $81.59This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have... -
ShipCraft 27 - British Sloops and Frigates of the Second World War by Les Brown
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The '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... -
Glasgow Museums: The Ship Models: A History & Complete Illustrated Catalogue by Culture and Sport Glasgow
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $59.89This publication will be the first full catalogue of Glasgow Museums' internationally important collection of ship models. Almost all of the 676 models, which range from elegant cruise liners to... -
HMS Gannet: Ship and Model by William Mowll 9781526726285
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $41.01HMS Gannet, beautifully restored today at Chatham Historic Dockyard, is a fine example of the small 'colonial schooners' that were built and deployed in the second half of the nineteenth century to... -
The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys by G H Bennett 9781399077910
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.33War for England's Shores examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that... -
Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World War One by Dunn, Steve 9781526726636
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one... -
British Submarines in Two World Wars Norman Friedman 9781526738165
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $82.17Although the Royal Navy did not invent the submarine, Norman Friedman's new book demonstrates how innovative the service was, to an extent which few will recognise. Its submarines performed well in... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: $142.70Booksplease Price: $59.56John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850... -
The Kaiser's Cruisers, 1871-1918 by Aidan Dodson 9781526765765
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $58.84While bookshelves groan with works on the capital ships of the German Third Reich, there is little in English devoted to their predecessors of the Second Reich, so this new book will fill a clear gap... -
Victory ShipCraft 29: 100-gun First Rate 1765 by Jang, Kerry 9781399085731
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships. Previously, these have generally covered plastic and resin models of 20th century... -
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945: Volume II Escorts and Smaller Fighting Ships by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $72.68Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a... -
Battleships of the Iowa Class: A Design and Operational History by Philippe Caresse
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $117.75The four battleships of the Iowa class, the crowning achievement of US battleship construction, had exceptionally long careers and each in their way left a distinctive mark not only on the US Navy... -
The Last British Battleship: HMS Vanguard, 1946-1960 by Burt, R A
RRP: $98.60Booksplease Price: $50.23The 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... -
French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626 - 1786 Rif Winfield 9781473893511
RRP: $161.70Booksplease Price: $96.05The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new _Marine Royale_ had... -
Italian Naval Camouflage of World War II by Marco Ghiglino
RRP: $119.68Booksplease Price: $56.53This is a major new study of Italian naval camouflage schemes developed and used during World War Two. When Italy entered the War in June 1942, the Regia Marina (Italian navy) was a force still under... -
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle by Nicholas Jellicoe
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $28.27More 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... -
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945: Volume III Naval Auxiliaries by Przemyslaw Budzbon 9781399022811
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $56.68Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a... -
Shipcraft 25: German Destroyers by Robert Brown
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74The 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... -
The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Jon Wise 9781399041706
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38From 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... -
Seaforth World Naval Review: 2024 by Conrad Waters 9781399023115
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $53.05For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional... -
RMS Titanic: A Modelmaker's Manual by Peter Davis-Garner 9781526737335
RRP: $77.60Booksplease Price: $27.24RMS Titanic has had more written about her than any other ship but, surprisingly, there is little information directed at the model shipwright. This new edition of the bestselling manual contains all... -
ShipCraft 24: Japanese Battleship s Fuso and Ise Classes by Robert Brown 9781473883376
Booksplease Price: $36.23The '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... -
Real Jim Hawkins: Ship's Boys in the Georgian Navy by Roland Pietsch 9781848320369
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $15.58Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson s Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the... -
ShipCraft 33: British Light Cruisers 2: Town, Colony and later classes by Les Brown 9781399037532
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The ‘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... -
British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century by Andrew Boyd 9781526736598
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $49.90This 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... -
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Johnston, Ian 9781399092043
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $31.98The launch in 1906 of HMS _Dreadnought_, the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage,... -
British Battleships 1889 1904 by Burt, R A 9781399096560
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $43.74This 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... -
British Battleships of World War One by Burt, R A 9781399096577
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $43.74This superb reference book achieved the status of classic soon after its first publication in 1986; it remains the most popular book on this era of battleship development. It presents, in one superb... -
British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars: From The John Lambert Collection Dunn, Steve 9781526794864
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $57.16John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850... -
The Harwich Striking Force: The Royal Navy's Front Line in the North Sea 1914 1918 by Dunn, Steve 9781399015967
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.33The Harwich Force has made its name and will not be forgotten during the future annals of history'; so said Rear Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt on Armistice Day 1918. But that fame has not endured... -
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow by Jellicoe, Nicholas C
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $41.01On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by surprise. In breach of agreed... -
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Vol IV: 1917 Year of Crisis by Arthur Jacob Marder
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor... -
V & W Destroyers: A Developmental History by John Henshaw
RRP: $82.95Booksplease Price: $41.01The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and all-big-gun armament; in doing so she rendered all... -
The Four Days' Battle of 1666: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail by Frank L. Fox 9781526737274
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.27On 1st June 1666, during the second Anglo-Dutch War, a large but outnumbered English Fleet engaged the Dutch off the mouth of the Thames in a colossal battle that was to involve nearly 200 ships and... -
Battleships of the Bismarck Class by Gerhard Koop 9781848321977
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but... -
British Destroyers 1870-1935 Norman Friedman 9781848320499
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $72.68In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively... -
Super Destroyers: From the Torpedo Boat Era to the Dominant Surface Warship of Today by Robert C Stern 9781526777454
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $59.56From the very beginnings of torpedo craft, all naval powers have seen the occasional need for larger, more powerful or in other respects special designs that stand outside the contemporary norms for... -
Battlecruiser Repulse: Detailed in original Builders' Plans John Roberts 9781526757289
RRP: $108.15Booksplease Price: $49.31The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings... -
Royal Yachts Under Sail by Brian Lavery
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $76.55From the time of the Restoration of Charles II, when he returned to England from Breda and was presented with the yacht Mary by the burgomaster of Amsterdam, Royal yachts began to be defined as such... -
Eagles over the Sea, 1943-45: A History of Luftwaffe Maritime Operations by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: $89.25Booksplease Price: $49.31This is the second volume of Lawrence Paterson's detailed account of all the Luftwaffe's naval operations during World War II. The first volume took the story up to 1942, and by the end of that year...