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Illustrated throughout, this is an essential guide to all aspects of the Royal Navy fleet that won the Falklands War, the fiercest naval war of modern times. In 1982, a unique naval campaign was fou……続きを見る

This compelling book explores the first four months of fighting in the Pacific between the United States and its Allies against Japan, focusing mainly on the aircraft carrier action of the respectiv……続きを見る

Secrets, Spirits, Scandal, and a Nation Watching When Marine Corps Lieutenant James N. Sutton died in a brawl in 1907, his mother, his sister and his ghost all challenged the Navy's suicide verdict.……続きを見る

"Several pages of plan drawings are provided and there is also a very nice section on the varied camouflage schemes carried by these ships." ー ModelingMadness.Com The 'ShipCraft' series provides in……続きを見る

Hans Rose was one of Germany’s most successful WWI U-boat aces, and her most successful ace during the convoy period when attacks by U-boats were most difficult and dangerous. Acknowledging his chiv……続きを見る

In both World Wars there arose a pressing need for merchant tonnage both to supplement existing ships but, more importantly, to replace ships that had been sunk by enemy action, and the key to the A……続きを見る

Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefle……続きを見る

A true adventure in which two amateur scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery - and make history themselves 'This book is a work of art' RYAN HOLIDAY 'A pulse-quickening rea……続きを見る

The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables. Fleet Tactics and Na……続きを見る

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. Hutchinson is a comprehensive historical account that delves into the controversial and often brutal practice of impressment in the British Royal Navy. Span……続きを見る

In mid-June 1943, Snelling Robinson, a 20-year-old Harvard graduate and newly commissioned ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve, joined the pre-commissioning crew of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Cot……続きを見る

The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania looks back on his life behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find. Best ……続きを見る

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size. Often wrongly termed “Imperial Marines”, they were in fact sailors led by Naval o……続きを見る

Recounts Desmond Marshall’s daring missions with L Squadron of the Special Boat Squadron during World War II. Formed in 1940 as Special Boat Section and later amalgamated into 1st SAS Regiment as pa……続きを見る

Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Center's Lincoln Prize IPPY Gold Medal for Southern Non-fiction The Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fl……続きを見る

Reproductions of official plans for the main types of warship the Royal Navy fought with during World War II. "The text is a masterpiece of compression, communicating a large quantity of information……続きを見る

A collection of British illustrations of their ships and ships they captured from 1793 to 1815, with informative text, by the author of The Sailing Frigate. Between 1793 and 1815, two decades of unr……続きを見る

This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployment……続きを見る

At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as……続きを見る

'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' - The Time……続きを見る

The book provides a pre-settlement historical account of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in their Indian Ocean context. The project began as a search for clues to locations of two 1……続きを見る

Before the political rupture between Russia and the Westーtriggered by Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022ーthe Royal Navy and the Russian Navy engaged in a com……続きを見る

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley l……続きを見る

Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published a chronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on what were then defined as critical and decisive e……続きを見る

Throughout his 52-year career, Rear Adm. John Lorimer Worden was always the right officer for the job. The epitome of an innovative commander who helped move the U.S. Navy out of the age of sail and……続きを見る

The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship one hundred yards off New York than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war. "A read……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most a……続きを見る

A fascinating account of a conflict which is often neglected, but had lasting international impact, with detailed analysis of the major technical aspects of the battleships, crew training and battle……続きを見る

Brotherhood & Battle–Stories of Courage and Survival Aboard a Destroyer In this compelling and vivid account, Robert Scigliano takes readers aboard the USS Harry E. Hubbard during one of the most pi……続きを見る

The history of one of the greatest acts of deception as Kriegsmarine raiders disguised as merchant ships wrecked havoc on Allied shipping and the Allied cruisers who finally destroyed them. During W……続きを見る