Naval forces & warfare books

Originally published in 1813, The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson is one of the classics of early biography. The author,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1930, this is a wonderfully detailed look at the history of the Sailing Ship in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

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""First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Seaforth Publishing""--T.p. verso.  Read More >>

Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed into extraordinary service. The fleet's task...  Read More >>

Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), who joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 as a midshipman, was chiefly responsible for...  Read More >>

Stealth Boat is a memoir of Gannon McHale's years in the U.S. Navy and of the men he served with in the Submarine...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1927, this is a detailed biography of the famous sea-faring man. Many of the earliest books,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1936, this is a wonderful, autobiographical account of a life of adventure on the high seas....  Read More >>

The story of the USS Arizona encompasses far more than the milli-second BOOM! that split her hull and snuffed out...  Read More >>

Representing five years of research, The Battlecruiser HMS Hood is easily the most comprehensive book ever published...  Read More >>

On 8 December, 1941, the gunboat USS Wake - based on the Yangtze River - was attacked and boarded by a group of...  Read More >>

A biography of Ray Daves, a non-commissioned officer in the US Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It also gives...  Read More >>

Hitler's Armada examines the aborted German invasion of 1940 in a fresh and original manner by looking past the...  Read More >>

The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelsons navy and France. At stake was Britains commercial lifeline...  Read More >>

EYES UNDER THE WATER When Steve Waterman left home in 1964, he was looking for the most exciting job the U.S. Navy...  Read More >>

"It was a time when one of the most powerful rulers in the world wasn't a government-it was a corporation. It's...  Read More >>

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A gripping account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius, between Nelson's navy and the French fleet.  Read More >>

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This classic work has long been sought for the view it offers of the US Navy during one of its most critical periods...  Read More >>

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