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  • V & W DESTROYERS
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    V & W DESTROYERS
    JOHN HENSHAW
    The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and all-big-gun armament; in doing so she rendered all other capital ships then afloat completely obsolete. Ten years later the V & W Class did to destroyers what the dreadnoughts had done to battleships; they set a completely new and high...

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  • BRITISH TOWN CLASS CRUISERS
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    BRITISH TOWN CLASS CRUISERS
    CONRAD WATERS
    This scholarly study of the Royal Navy’s WWII light cruisers presents extensive design, performance, and engagement analysis of each ship.   When the Second World War began, the ten British ‘Town’ class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy. Primarily designed for the defense of trade, they played decisive roles in victories such as the Battle of...

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  • SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2020
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    SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2020
    CONRAD WATERS
    This anthology features in-depth assessments of naval innovations and developments around the word by leading experts in the field.   The Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an authoritative summary of cutting-edge naval developments across the globe. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-depth articles from a r...

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  • ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WORLD WAR II: VOLUME I
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    ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WORLD WAR II: VOLUME I
    JOHN LAMBERT / AL ROSS
    The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction throughout the War, and in every theatre. They performed invaluable service as patrol boats, convoy escorts, minelayers and min...

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  • WARSHIPS AFTER WASHINGTON
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    WARSHIPS AFTER WASHINGTON
    JOHN JORDAN
    This fascinating study of post-WWI naval powers reveals how international peace treaties influenced the design and engineering of modern warships. The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 was designed to prevent an arms race between the major naval powers after the First World War. But the new constraint inspired ingenious attempts to maximize the power of ships built within the tre...

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  • THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE: NEW SERIES 4
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    THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE: NEW SERIES 4
    PETER HORE
    The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. A central theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of 21 October 1805 involving British, French and ...

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  • SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2020
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    SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2020
    CONRAD WATERS
    This anthology features in-depth assessments of naval innovations and developments around the word by leading experts in the field.   The Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an authoritative summary of cutting-edge naval developments across the globe. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-depth articles from a r...

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  • WATERLINE WARSHIPS
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    WATERLINE WARSHIPS
    PHILIP REED
    Philip Reed, best known for his superb models of ships from the age of sail, here turns his attention to the other highly popular subject for ship modelers - the warships of the Second World War.The book is a step-by-step manual for building a scratch waterline model of the Ca Class destroyer HMS Caesar, the sistership of Cavalier now on display in drydock at Chatham Historical...

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  • WARRIOR TO DREADNOUGHT
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    WARRIOR TO DREADNOUGHT
    DAVID K. BROWN
    In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the First World War.The author explains how ninetheenth-century designers responded ...

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  • THE COMING OF THE COMET
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    THE COMING OF THE COMET
    NICK ROBINS
    In August 1812 Henry Bells Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Companys wooden walls off the seas; it provide...

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  • SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2014
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    SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2014
    CONRAD WATERS
    Since its launch in 2009 this annual has rapidly established a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also loo...

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  • SHIP MODELS FROM KITS
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    SHIP MODELS FROM KITS
    DAVID GRIFFITH
    In the past thirty years the world of model kits has undergone a veritable revolution. New techniques in injection moulding have improved the scale accuracy and surface detail of the humble plastic kit, while many specialist companies now produce top-quality resin models, vastly broadening the range of subjects on the market. However, the really radical change has been the adve...

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  • REBUILDING THE ROYAL NAVY
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    REBUILDING THE ROYAL NAVY
    DAVID K. BROWN / GEORGE MOORE
    “A superb collection of contemporary photos . . . offers a fascinating insight into how the post-war fleet developed and adapted to its changing role.”—Ships Monthly   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 Roy...

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  • YORKTOWN CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
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    YORKTOWN CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
    ROGER CHESNEAU
    This fully illustrated guide offers historical context and step-by-step instruction for building and modifying US aircraft carrier models.   This volume in the ShipCraft series covers the Yorktown class of American aircraft carriers. These legendary ships kept the Japanese at bay through World War II, in the dark days between Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, where the USS...

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  • HITLER'S GATEWAY TO THE ATLANTIC
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    HITLER'S GATEWAY TO THE ATLANTIC
    LARS HELLWINKEL
    “An excellent book” that examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War (Warship Annual).   When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy’s dream of access to the Atlantic was realized, and Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire, La Pallice and Bordeaux were converted into naval bases for surface, U-boa...

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  • DESTROYER BATTLES
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    DESTROYER BATTLES
    ROBERT C. STEM
    Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many hard-fought battles, using both torpedoes and...

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  • JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS
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    JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS
    ROBERT BROWN
    This fully illustrated guide offers historical context and step-by-step instruction for building and modifying Japanese battleship models.   This volume in the ShipCraft series covers the two related classes of Japanese 14in-gunned battleships, originally built during the First World War but subsequently reconstructed. These ships are famous for their towering forward superstru...

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  • FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW, VOLUME III
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    FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW, VOLUME III
    ARTHUR J. MARDER
    Volume III in this definitive WWI naval history presents an in-depth analysis of the Battle of Jutland, with a new introduction by historian Barry Gough. Arthur Marder's five-volume history From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow is one of the finest contributions to naval history, chronicling the dramatic conflicts of the First World War with an “unrivalled mastery of sources” and ...

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  • GERMAN LIGHT CRUISERS OF WORLD WAR II
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    GERMAN LIGHT CRUISERS OF WORLD WAR II
    GERHARD KOOP / KLAUS-PETER SCHMOLKE
    “An immensely interesting look” at the Emden, Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnbergships “from drawing board to destiny” (War History Online).   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 desig...

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  • GERMAN DESTROYERS OF WORLD WAR II
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    GERMAN DESTROYERS OF WORLD WAR II
    GERHARD KOOP / KLAUS-PETER SCHMOLKE
    A detailed, illustrated history of the torpedo boat destroyers of the Nazi German Navy. The warships of the World War II German Navy are among the most popular subjects in naval history, and one of the best collections is the concise but authoritative six volume series written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each book contains an account of the developm...

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  • NO ROOM FOR MISTAKES
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    NO ROOM FOR MISTAKES
    GEIRR H HAARR
    A new book from this bestselling author covering the events at sea in the early years of World War II, in which he has compiled comprehensive research and insight into a highly readable and detailed account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of the war. The early chapters describe prewar submarine development, including technical a...

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  • NAVAL POLICY BETWEEN THE WARS, VOLUME I
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    NAVAL POLICY BETWEEN THE WARS, VOLUME I
    STEPHEN ROSKILL
    First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime equivalent of the official naval histories...

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  • BRITISH BATTLECRUISERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    BRITISH BATTLECRUISERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    STEVE BACKER
    The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profile...

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  • THE END OF GLORY
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    THE END OF GLORY
    BRUCE TAYLOR
    There have been many fine books written on HMS Hood, the glory of the Royal Navy, while television and cinema have also taken the subject to their heart. No book, however, has ever offered the combination of in-depth research and thrilling narrative to be found in The End of Glory. For twenty years Hood symbolised the Royal Navy during the twilight years of the British Empire b...

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  • DUTCH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1600–1714
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    DUTCH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1600–1714
    JAMES BENDER
    This definitive study presents a complete account of the Dutch Republic’s naval fleet during its golden age as a world power.   The Netherlands was by far the most important maritime power of the seventeenth century. It dominated seaborne trade with the largest merchant fleet in the world. Born out of an 80-year struggle against Spain for independence, the Dutch republic relied...

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  • THE AGE OF THE SHIP OF THE LINE
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    THE AGE OF THE SHIP OF THE LINE
    JONATHAN R. DULL
    The “acclaimed naval historian . . . takes the reader through the intricacies of warship design and construction in both French and British navies.” —Historical Novel Society In the series of wars that raged between France and Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, seapower was of absolute vital importance. Not only was each nation’s navy a key to victory, bu...

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  • BRITISH BATTLESHIPS 1919-1945
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    BRITISH BATTLESHIPS 1919-1945
    R.A. BURT
    The classic reference on the Royal Navy’s battleships and battlecruisers, now expanded with dozens of additional photos.   Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, this naval history reference describes the evolution of the British battleship classes through all their modifications and refits. As well as dealing with design features, armor, machin...

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  • THE VOYAGES OF THE DISCOVERY
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    THE VOYAGES OF THE DISCOVERY
    ANN SAVOURS
    Discovery was built for Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-04 and was launched more than 100 years ago in 1901, at Dundee. She had a long and intriguing career before her final voyage back there in 1986; this book tells the story of that chequered history.Despite a number of expeditions to the Southern Ocean during the nineteenth century, the continent of Antarc...

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  • COLD WAR COMMAND
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    COLD WAR COMMAND
    DAN CONLEY / RICHARD WOODMAN
    A British nuclear submariner sheds critical light on the Royal Navy’s Cold War operations in this revealing military memoir. The role played by the Royal Navy's submarines throughout the Cold War remains largely shrouded in secrecy. In Cold War Command, Captain Dan Conley, RN (Ret.), offers an insider’s look at commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines. As captain of the HMS ...

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  • THE ROMAN NAVY
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    THE ROMAN NAVY
    MICHAEL PITASSI
    The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years. The fabric and organisation of this maritime force is at the core of this new book.At the h...

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