Naval forces & warfare books

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Warships in the War of the Pacific 1879–83: South America's ironclad naval campaign

Warships in the War of the Pacific 1879–83: South America's...

Author: Angus Konstam ,  Paul Wright (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781472861245
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the...  Read More >>

Harrier: The World's First V/STOL Jet Combat Aircraft

Harrier: The World's First V/STOL Jet Combat Aircraft...

Author: Philip Birtles
ISBN: 9781781559123
Format: Hardback
$101.00

Harrier was the world's first V/STOL jet combat aircraft design, development and service with the RAF, USMC, and...  Read More >>

D-Day Landing Craft: How 4,126 ‘Ugly and Unorthodox’ Allied Craft made the Normandy Landings Possible

D-Day Landing Craft: How 4,126 ‘Ugly and Unorthodox’...

Author: Andrew Whitmarsh
ISBN: 9781803994451
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The D-Day Landings could not have happened without over 4,000 Allied landing craft and ships, and their crews. This...  Read More >>

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang...

Author: Kenneth M. Swope
ISBN: 9781682472859
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

Author: John Rodgaard
ISBN: 9781036112349
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific...

Author: Evan Mawdsley
ISBN: 9780300255454
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the...  Read More >>

Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

Author: Robert Kershaw
ISBN: 9781472854391
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Using revelatory new material on an event which changed the tide of World War II, Robert Kershaw's ground-breaking...  Read More >>

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure...

Author: Will Sofrin
ISBN: 9781419767074
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired by Hollywood to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000...  Read More >>

Texas Coastal Defense in the Civil War

Texas Coastal Defense in the Civil War

Author: William Nelson Fox
ISBN: 9781467155618
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Warship 2024

Warship 2024

Author: John Jordan
ISBN: 9781472863300
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy

The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy...

Author: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472857736
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to...  Read More >>

My Dearest Bea: Love Letters from the USS Midway

My Dearest Bea: Love Letters from the USS Midway

Author: Peyton H Roberts
ISBN: 9781963595000
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"""Soon I'll be home again and once more, time and life will have a meaning."" Bill Holston, USS Midway, 1951...  Read More >>

Red Dragon Bombers: China’S Long-Range Bomber Force Since 1956

Red Dragon Bombers: China’S Long-Range Bomber Force...

Author: Andreas Rupprecht
ISBN: 9781950394142
Format: Paperback
$140.00

China’s small but capable bomber fleet operates as a kind of ‘silver bullet’ force, to strike targets at longer...  Read More >>

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

Author: Julian Stafford Corbett
ISBN: 9789357966986
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This brilliant exposition established Corbett as a classical maritime strategist whose concepts of sea power are...  Read More >>

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship--And the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for...

Author: Phil Keith ,  Tom Clavin
ISBN: 9781335449498
Format: Paperback
$58.05

On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On...  Read More >>

Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War

Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship...

Author: Nate Hendley ,  Adam Barr
ISBN: 9798874772956
Format: Audio
$105.57

On June 27, 1918, a Canadian military hospital ship was torpedoed by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. The sub commander...  Read More >>

Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War

Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship...

Author: Nate Hendley ,  Adam Barr
ISBN: 9798874772963
Format: Audio
$121.31

On June 27, 1918, a Canadian military hospital ship was torpedoed by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. The sub commander...  Read More >>

Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels

Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives,...

Author: James H. Bruns
ISBN: 9781476690544
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Thousands of black sailors served with valour during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their significant...  Read More >>

Midwatch in Verse: New Year's Deck Log Poetry of the United States Navy, 1941-1946

Midwatch in Verse: New Year's Deck Log Poetry of the...

Author: David E. Johnson ,  Gary Guinn
ISBN: 9781476689265
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Naval deck logs require young officers to record mundane details of a ship’s condition every few hours. According...  Read More >>

USS Bogue: The Most Successful Anti-Submarine Warfare Carrier in World War II

USS Bogue: The Most Successful Anti-Submarine Warfare...

Author: David Lee Russell
ISBN: 9781476692036
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Designed to locate and sink German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, the escort carrier USS Bogue became the...  Read More >>

Typhoon Louise vs. the United States Navy: Catastrophe at Okinawa, October 9-10, 1945

Typhoon Louise vs. the United States Navy: Catastrophe...

Author: Gene Eric Salecker
ISBN: 9781476692739
Format: Paperback
$84.70

In October 1945, Typhoon Louise tore into Okinawa, slamming ships together and tossing them onto reefs and beaches....  Read More >>

Dive Bomber Down: James A. Nist, Naval Aviator in the Pacific War

Dive Bomber Down: James A. Nist, Naval Aviator in the...

Author: Bryan J. Dickerson
ISBN: 9781476692463
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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The Bear and the Northland: Legendary Coast Guard Cutters in the Alaskan Ice

The Bear and the Northland: Legendary Coast Guard Cutters...

Author: Arthur G. Sharp
ISBN: 9781476692111
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Presents the history of the early US Coast Guard, with special focus on its former whalers-turned-cutters, the Bear...  Read More >>

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