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Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas: Kriegsmarine Security Forces by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £20.03This study of the Kriegsmarine's Sicherungsstreitkr fte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in World War Two. This wide array of vessels included patrol boats,... -
ShipCraft 32: British Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Ark Royal and the Illustrious Class by Robert Brown 9781399036269
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of popular warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of... -
Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and Enhancing Commercial Kits by Jang, Kerry 9781526777539
RRP: £59.50Booksplease Price: £21.54The vast majority of period ship models are built from kits, usually primarily of wood with some ready-made fittings. Although these commercial offerings have improved significantly in recent years,... -
Battleships of the Bismarck Class by Gerhard Koop 9781848321977
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The 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... -
RMS Titanic: A Modelmaker's Manual by Peter Davis-Garner 9781526737335
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £13.16RMS 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... -
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume I: Fairmile Designs & US Submarine Chasers Lambert, John 9781526744494
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats,... -
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Johnston, Ian 9781399092043
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £15.23The 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,... -
HMS Victory by Jonathan Eastland 9781848320949
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. A symbol of the Royal Navy's achievements during the great age of sail, she is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of... -
ShipCraft 31: British Light Cruisers: Leander, Amphion and Arethusa Classes by Les Brown 9781399030564
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The '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... -
Victory ShipCraft 29: 100-gun First Rate 1765 by Jang, Kerry 9781399085731
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The 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... -
The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters: Linchpin of Victory 1935 1942 by Boyd, Andrew 9781399096546
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08This important work tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of the Second World War; it... -
The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough by Alistair Roach 9781399077965
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Norman Ough is considered by many as simply the greatest ship modeller of the twentieth century and his exquisite drawings and meticulous models have come to be regarded as masterpieces of... -
Real Jim Hawkins: Ship's Boys in the Georgian Navy by Roland Pietsch 9781848320369
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £7.42Generations 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... -
Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II by Brown, D K 9781399020046
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut,... -
Italian Naval Camouflage of World War II by Marco Ghiglino
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £26.92This 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: £26.95Booksplease Price: £13.46More 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... -
Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models by Brian Lavery 9781399024853
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the... -
ShipCraft 33: British Light Cruisers 2: Town, Colony and later classes by Les Brown 9781399037532
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The ‘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 9781399021197
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16When published in 2020 it offered the first comprehensive account of how intelligence influenced and sustained British naval power from the mid nineteenth century through to the end of the Cold War. ... -
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Vol IV: 1917 Year of Crisis by Arthur Jacob Marder
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The 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... -
Shipcraft 25: German Destroyers by Robert Brown
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The 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 Steep Atlantick Stream by Robert Harling
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South... -
Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer by Alexander Clarke 9781399077958
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The ships that dominate so much of the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War are more often than not the carriers or battleships – Ark Royal, Warspite, Hood – and rarely do ships smaller... -
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume II: Vosper MTBs and US Elcos by Lambert, John 9781526747556
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats,... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: £67.95Booksplease Price: £28.36John 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 Trafalgar Chronicle: Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 9 John A Rodgaard 9781399078085
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new research on the Georgian era navy, sometimes called 'Nelson's Navy'. Its scope extends to the maritime world of 1714 to 1837. In this... -
The British Aircraft Carrier: Two World Wars and After Norman Friedman 9781399033138
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.85The Royal Navy invented the aircraft carrier and most of the key innovations which have enabled carriers to remain effective, exploiting continuing changes in aircraft technology, from biplanes to... -
ShipCraft 27 - British Sloops and Frigates of the Second World War by Les Brown
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The '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: £65.00Booksplease Price: £28.52This 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... -
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII: Volume II: Battleships & Aircraft Carriers by Malcolm George Wright 9781399024877
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or... -
Naval Ship Models of World War II in 1/1250 and 1/1200 Scales: Enhancements, Conversions & Scratch Building by 9781526793911
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £19.53The origins of 1/1250 and 1/200 scale models can be traced back to the first years of the twentieth century and their use as identification aids by the military during the First World War. When peace... -
The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models by Mark Smithers
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £13.16The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the... -
Iowa Class Battleships: Shipcraft 17 by Abbey Lester 9781848321113
Booksplease Price: £17.09The '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... -
Battleship Warspite: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Robert Brown 9781526719379
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £23.48The 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... -
King George V Class Battleships: Shipcraft 2 by Roger Chesneau 9781848321144
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The '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... -
Shipcraft 4: Type V11 U Boats by Roger Chesneau 9781848321236
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The '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... -
ShipCraft 22: German Battlecruisers Steve Backer 9781848321816
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The '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... -
HMS Cavalier: Destroyer 1944 by Richard Johnstone-Bryden
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.41HMS Cavalier is a 'C'-Class destroyer, one of 96 War Emergency Programme destroyers that were ordered between 1940 and 1942. She saw action on convoy duty off Russia, and later, in 1945, was sent to... -
Clydebank Battlecruisers: Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard Ian Johnston 9781399024891
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £13.46Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is... -
Fletcher and Class Destroyers: No. 8 by Abbey Lester 9781844156979
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The '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...