Als das deutsche Schlachtschiff »Bismarck« 1940 in Dienst gestellt wurde, war es das größte und k...

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can b...

Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships t...

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the large...

The Second Battle of Sirte was a key naval clash in the Mediterranean, and a vital moment in the ...

A superbly illustrated history of the Royal Navy's World War II monitors - gunboats armed with a ...

This fully illustrated study explains the British Pacific Fleet's campaign against the Japanese i...

Formed to project British naval power from Gibraltar, Force H was the Royal Navy's unique strateg...

Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a uniqu...

In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty despe...

During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, ...

In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the hear...

For more than 30 years the Nile river gunboat was an indispensable tool of empire, policing the g...

This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course o...

This book describes the life of a pirate in the early 18th century, the 'Golden Age of Piracy'. I...

With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at ...

A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's ma...

In the early 20th century Britain's largest colonies established their own small naval presence, ...

In 1906, the Germans began building their own dreadnought fleet armed with larger guns, word of w...

At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Na...

A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. W...

The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. The first half-dozen dre...

A ground-breaking narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pur...

Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan too...

In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American...

First mentioned by name in AD 297, the Picts inhabited Northern Britain from the end of the 3rd c...

Specially commissioned photographs of more than 700 key artifacts and military equipment bring to...

A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomac...

For most of the Renaissance period, naval warfare in the Mediterranean was dominated by the war g...

This second volume (see MAA 297) by Angus Konstam on the Russian Army of the Seven Years War conc...

Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War was a peculiar eve...

In this book, maritime expert Angus Konstam explores the fledging Tudor Navy, tracing its history...

When the Romans withdrew from Britain, the north of the country was ruled by the most mysterious ...

The creation of a Confederate ironclad fleet was a miracle of ingenuity, improvisation and logist...

Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. From ...

Authors Angus Konstam and Roger Michael Kean reveal the truth behind our myths, fairy tales, and ...

The break of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 was one of the mo...

This book gives an accurate picture of the pirates who sailed in the waters of the Caribbean and ...

When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including H...

During the Second World War, flotillas of the Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats and other coastal ...

With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at ...

The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Brit...

Before the era of great pirates in the early 18th century, there was an even more bloodthirsty ph...

A fascinating look at the British naval intervention in the Baltic in 1918-20, and at the British...

With Hitler's army rampaging across Europe, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a special f...

This detailed study of the naval Spanish Civil War describes how the Spanish Navy, torn in two an...

For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic ...

From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintain...