Like (I suspect) many British readers, I came to this book remarkably ignorant of what went on in the Baltic during WW2. My own Cold War sea trips...
This book takes us back to the piping days of interwar peace, and a British fleet of bone-white teak and gleaming brightwork, starched ice-cream...
Piecing together the career of a junior naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars is no easy thing and years of effort by Carter have certainly...
As I understand it this is the published PhD thesis of Robert L Davison, a Canadian academic historian, which explores in deeply researched detail...
This is the fourth of eight volumes of facsimiles of truly accomplished water-coloured line drawings of British naval vessels from Victorian times...
This is a history of the Operational Intelligence Centre of the RN's Naval Intelligence Division in WW2, and its satellite the Submarine Tracking...
The purpose of this book is to provide an audit trail of how HMSs Prince of Wales and Repulse came to be where they were when they were sunk on...
Paul White has pulled together an archive of photographs and reminiscences of the Ship's Company of the 6" cruiser HMS Tiger, taking the history...
Up funnel, down screw! This is an exhaustive survey of the development of the 'cruiser' (the category includes warships called variously...
This is the story of Charles, 5th Duke of Rutland (1754-87), and his sailor brother Robert (1758-82), sons of the Marquis of Granby after whom...
'A dishonour never to be wiped off' - John Evelyn, 28 June 1667 In 1967 I spent a week in the Dutch destroyer Limburg. Contrary to RN practice,...
The main premise of this book is that during the preparations for Operation Torch, the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, that three convoys were...
This is a biography of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle GCB, 1765-1819, an important contributor to Nelson's success against Napoleon....
140 pages is not a lot for an account of the development of the battleship, particularly as about half the content is illustrations – but these...
In September 1740 Commodore George Anson set off from England with five other warships and two supply ships and 1854 men (many actually unfit for...
This is the second of eight volumes of facsimiles of elegant water-coloured line drawings of British naval vessels from Victorian times to 1939....
This is one of the most remarkable books to come my way for a long time. It is the first of eight volumes of facsimiles of elegant water-coloured...
This is a short biography of Emma Hamilton, successively blacksmith's daughter, teenage tart, stripper, actress, concubine and muse, Charles...
This is a very welcome Seaforth 2016 paperback reprint of Professor Marder's 1976 original on the disastrous 1940 Dakar expedition. Following the...
This is the story of how the German invasion of Norway came to be, with, as its climax, the 1st Battle of Narvik on 10th April 1940 in which...
Today’s Royal Navy remains inspired by Nelson and the Navy of the Napoleonic Wars, which is understandable give its near complete domination of...
Held in the West by vast Allied sacrifice on land, but with Russia collapsed in the East, what finally brought Germany to her knees in 1918, her...
This is the story of Ramsey’s tour in command of the nuclear attack submarine HMS Turbulent 2008-2011, ultimately taking her via the coast of...
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce has contributed a Foreword. He seems to see Doenitz as just another submariner like himself. I think the gyro of...
Introduced and explained by John Grehan, this is a reprint of two books, now gathered into in one volume: 1. ‘The Truth about Jutland’, by Rear...
The author is the grandson of the victor of Jutland. He is the projector of the Jutland Centenary website http://www.jutland1916.com/ and has put...
The first official account of Jutland was prepared by Captain JET Harper in 1919. This was suppressed by Beatty following Harper’s objections to...
John Bishop was one of the few hundred young men specially selected post-war by the Royal Navy to do their National Service as Coders (Special), a...
This is a one-volume history of the Battle of the Atlantic. The author is a prolific and established military historian; this appears to be his...
An unusual book but one that has enthralled me for the last week. In 2002 a large collection of photographs, some in colour, from the Great War...
This is the story of the six Abdiel class minelayers of WW2. They were indeed ‘special’ as they were, apart from the unsatisfactory HMS Adventure...
Warship camouflage goes back to the First World War as a means of concealing identity, heading and speed, and confusing an enemy range taker. Here...
This is a history of the Royal Navy (with, necessarily, something of their opponents and allies) in the Second World War for the general reader,...
This is the profusely illustrated, beautifully produced and very detailed story of British warship design and construction 1815-1860, from the...
Subtitled ‘A Naval Atlas 1914 - 1919’ this book is just that. It is absolutely beautifully produced - well done, Seaforth - and carries an...
We lost the American colonies to the treasonous rebels when Admiral Graves failed to break through the French fleet and relieve the besieged...
The author is American and has produced a large number of books about the Second World War, particularly about the war at sea. This offering does...
This book is essentially a welcome reprint of a set of five separate monographs, originally published in 1974, on: - The Dardanelles...
For those of you who only see Lawrence charging about the desert on a camel, here is a huge corrective. As Lawrence himself wrote (as cited by...
(this book will be publicly released October 2015) ‘[The Royal Navy is] the real force and bulwark of England’ (Napoleon, to his surgeon on St...
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