Maritime - Wartime

Royal Navy Fleet reviews from earliest times to 2005.

Author: Steve R Dunn.

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing.

Hardback. 320pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526769022

Original Price: £29.99

Birth of a superpower.

Author: Mark Jessop.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 198pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526720337

Original Price: 19.99

Author: Les Brown

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 200pp. 21.8cm by 26.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399022859

Weight: 1.015kg

Original Price: £40.00

Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945

The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial to the nation’s survival using their speed and expertise to evade Nazi warships, raiders and U-boats.

Author: Bernard Edwards.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 206pp. 16x24x2.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399097864

Weight: 500g.

Original Price: £20.00

Home of the Royal Navy 1939 - 1945.

Author: Krzysztof Kubiak.

Publisher: MMP Books.

Paperback. 96pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9788366549036

Original Price: £20.00

Author: Tony Matthews

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 15.2cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399064613

Weight: 741g

Original Price: £25.00

The evolutionary role of the snorkel in Donitz's U-Boat fleet 1944-1945.

Author: Aaron S. Hamilton.

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing.

Hardback. 416pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526778802

Original Price: £35.00

This book, using a carefully selected range of both wartime images and colour images of surviving U-boat memorabilia from private collections, describes 100 iconic elements of the U-Boat service and its campaigns.

Author: Gordon Williamson.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Hardback. 182pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526759023

Weight: 756

Original Price: £25.00

This classic Images of War book traces the key role played by destroyers of the United States Navy since the first order for 16 in 1898. Prior to the USA’s entry into the First World War a further 63 destroyers were commissioned and, due to the U-boat threat, 267 more were authorised by Congress once hostilities were joined.

Author: Michael Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 19cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526758545

Weight.0.678kg

Original Price: £16.99

Volume II Escorts and Smaller Fighting Ships.

Author: Przemyslaw Budzbon, Jan Radziemski, Marek Twardowski

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 304pp. 24.8cm by 29.2cm.

ISBN: 9781399022774

Weight: 1.615kg

Original Price: £45.00

As this well researched work reveals, Hitler’s handling the German Navy during the Second World War was full of contradictions.

Author: Adrian Stewart.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 212pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526710574

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £19.99

1945 to the Present

In September 1945, with the surrender of Japan, some ninety-eight battleships or ex-battleships might be spotted around the world, and eleven of them were in or around Tokyo Bay for the surrender itself. What happened to all those ships?

Author: Chris Baker.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 146pp. 18x25x3.2cm.

ISBN: 9781399070089

Weight: 1.25kg.

Original Price: £30.00