Maritime - Wartime

How the Royal Navy Shaped his Bestsellers

It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories. In 1941, he was called up after volunteering for the Royal Navy and served as Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. 

Author: Mark Simmons.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 193pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399019385

Weight: 500g.

Original Price: £20.00

Building a Fleet for Empire 1744–1763

Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier’s fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744. Anson’s great circumnavigation, though presented as a triumph, was achieved at huge cost in ships and lives.

Author: Brian Lavery.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 25.4x29.5x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399002882

Weight: 1.45kg.

Original Price: £40.00

Detailed in the original builders' plans.

Author: Andrew Choong.

Publisher: Seaforth.

Hardback. 120pp. 25cm by 30cm.

ISBN 9781526766373

Original Price: £30.00

On a map the Azores appear as nine tiny specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but their location was to prove strategically vital in two world wars The Atlantic became a crucial battleground twice within the space of 25 years, as the US ‘arsenal of democracy’ sent firstly stores, arms and equipment, followed by many thousands of troops to fight in Europe. 

Author: Guy Warner, Foreword by Hugo Miguel Baptista Cabral.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 18x25.3x1.8cm.

ISBN: 9781399010900

Weight: 650g.

Original Price: £25.00

The largest sea battle of the Second World War. From the 'Images of War' series.

Author: John Greham & Alexander Nicill.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Paperback. 216pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526770394

Weight: 570

Original Price: £14.99

Aboard HMS Antrim at War

This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. 

Author: David Yates.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 201pp. 15.6x23.3x1.8cm.

ISBN: 9781844156245

Weight: 400g.

Original Price: £14.99

Author: R A Burt

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 352pp. 24cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399096560

Weight: 1.53kg

Original Price: £25.00

An in-depth look at the early days of the Second World War for the British Cruiser fleet.

Author: Alan Raven.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 320pp. 22cm by 26cm.

ISBN 9781526747631

Original Price: £35.00

The John Lambert collection -Vol 3: Coastal Forces Weapons.

Author: Norman Friedman.

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing.

Hardback. 208pp. 25cm by 30cm.

ISBN 9781526777102

Original Price: £40.00

1920 – 1982

This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the First World War, to the last years of the century. 

Author: David Hepper.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 424pp. 18x25x3.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399097666

Weight: 1.35kg.

Original Price: £30.00

While Churchill may not have described the convoys as the worst journey in the world', for the brave men who undertook he mission often at the cost of their lives, it most definitely was.

Author: William Smith

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399072298

Weight: 524g

Original Price: £25.00

The subject of this volume is one of the famous ‘Tribal’ class, large destroyers intended to substitute for cruisers in many roles.

Author: John Roberts.

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing.

Hardback. 128pp. 25cm by 29cm.

ISBN: 9781526777065

Weight: 1099

Original Price: £30.00