Maritime - Wartime

The development of the Scandinavia-UK ferry services from the first passenger-cargo steamers of the early 19th century to the groundbreaking cruise ferries of the second half of the 20th century, and the final closure of the services during the first decades of the new millennia.

Author: Kalle Id.

Publisher: Ferry Publications.

Hardback. 160pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781911268253

Weight:

Original Price: £22.00

This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings.

Author: Malcolm Cooper

Publisher: Seaforth

Hardback.210pp. 22.5cm by 26.5cm.

ISBN 9781399015530

Weight. 1.063kg

Original Price: £30.00

The St Nazaire Raid 1942

Author: Jean-Charles Stasi.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781612007298

Weight: 422

Original Price: £19.99

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