Naval category: 2015 books
Fighting Ships of the Far East (2)
Japan and Korea AD 612–1639
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility. However, this impression can be misleading, as much of what passed for mercantile activity was in fact conducted by Japanese pirate fleets, who pillaged the coasts of...
Rebuilding the Royal Navy
Warship Design Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the author’s masterly account of development of Royal Navy’s ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers...
German Destroyers of World War II
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series...
K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions
The full story of the ‘Battle’ of the Isle of May
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
On 31 January 1918 nine K Class steam-powered submarines sailed with the Grand Fleet to Exercise in the North Sea. The ships left the Firth of Forth at a speed of 21 knots on a cold winter night with the flagship HMS Courageous leading the way. Following in her wake was HMS Ithuriel and the K Class...
Maritime Private Security
Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector.
The private security industry continues to evolve after its renaissance over the past few decades, first in Africa, and later in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite this, little...
HMS Trenchant
From Chatham to the Banka Strait
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
This is both the war memoir of a distinguished naval officer and the history of HMS Trenchant, a T Class submarine. Admiral Hezlet was appointed to command Trenchant from her completion in early 1944 until mid-1945 during which time she and her crew worked up, voyaged to the Far East and carried out...
by Mark Felton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Ironically while the Japanese Navy followed many of the Royal Navy's traditions and structures, it had a totally different approach to the treatment of its foes. The author has uncovered a plethora of outrages against both servicemen and civilians which make chilling and shocking reading. These range...
by Ray Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Have you ever wondered...
• How the Navy and the Marines came to be ‘royal’?
• How Samuel Pepys helped professionalise the Navy while at the same time penning his famous diary.
• What the origins of everyday expressions like ‘toeing the line’, ‘showing your true...
Coastal Convoys
The Indestructible Highway
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Using official records from the National Archives personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum and other sources, Coastal Convoys 1939 - 1945: The Indestructible Highway describes Britain's dependence on coastal shipping and the introduction of the convoy system in coastal waters at the outset of...
Yangtze Showdown
China and the Ordeal of the HMS Amethyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The attack on the British frigate Amethyst on the Yangtze River by Chinese Communists in 1949 made world headlines. There was even more publicity when the ship made a dramatic escape after being trapped for 101 days. Eulogised by the British as an example of outstanding courage and fortitude, the...
SS Great Britain
Transatlantic Liner 1843
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Brunel, was the first ocean-going vessel to be screw-driven and built entirely of iron. When she was launched in 1843 she was twice the size of any previous ship and her revolutionary design heralded a complete break with traditional ship construction. As...
Admiralty Salvage in Peace and War 1906 - 2006
Grope, Grub and Tremble
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
The importance of marine salvage during armed conflict has been vastly underestimated since becoming a vital Naval arm during the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918 the Admiralty Salvage Section saved nearly 400 merchant vessels, desperately needed to bring food and war materials into Britain.
During...
Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Drivers and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era.
Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is an activity no longer confined...
by Jacob Abbott, Elbert Hubbard, Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Palace intrigue, high seas piracy, the first war in Afghanistan, Elizabethan politics and TR’s take on the War of 1812 – it’s all here and more in Strategy Six Pack Six, another awesome military multi-manual for historians and tacticians. In this six-pack:
The Suppression of Piracy by Henry...