Maritime - Wartime

Submarines, Gunboats, Sloops and Minesweepers, 1860-1939 - The Perkins Identification Albums.

Author: Richard Perkins

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 264pp. 30.5cm by 40.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526711168

Weight: 3.08kg

Original Price: £70.00

This is the extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury ocean liner — waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners — found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line.

Author: Andrew Vine

Publisher: Quarto Publishing

Paperback. 320pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780711276161

Weight: 264g

Original Price: £9.99

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

Churchill quickly recognised Britain's survival depended on countering the U-boat threat and the strategic importance of protecting Allied merchant shipping with measures such as the convoy system.

Author: William Smith

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 270pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399050975

Weight: 554g

Original Price: £25.00

Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard.

Between 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.

Author: Ian Johnston

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 192pp. 13.5cm by 26cm.

ISBN: 9781399024891

Weight: 823g

Original Price: £16.99

Royal Navy Airship Operations During the Great War 1914-1918

Author: Brian J. Turpin

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 288pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781555279

Weight: 877g

Original Price: £30.00

Author: Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 256pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558737

Weight: 547g

Original Price: £25.00

This book offers engaging new insights and a degree of critical candour that set it apart from other Fleet Air Arm histories currently available on the market.

Author: Henry 'Hank' Adlam

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 272pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399074902

Weight: 464g

Original Price: £15.99

Author: Bryan Cooper

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 144pp. 14cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781399019873

Weight: 396g

Original Price: £14.99

The overarching theme of the book, of moving from dark to light: in short, the process of mastering technological change during war.

Author: Vincent P O'Hara, Trent Hone

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 305pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399030519

Weight: 849g

Original Price: £25.00

Volume 4, Part 1 - Torpedo Boats and Destroyers

Author: Venner F. Milewski

Publisher: MMP Books

Hardback. 200pp. 21cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9788366549623

Weight: 1.062kg

Original Price: £35.00

This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War One to the present day.

Author: Kev Darling

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 352pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399075008

Weight: 830g

Original Price: £19.99