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  • THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE
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    THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE
    JOHN A RODGAARD / JUDITH PEARSON
    The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new research on the Georgian era navy, sometimes called ‘Nelson’s Navy’. Its scope extends to the maritime world of 1714 to 1837. In this volume, authors from five countries provide tales of adventure, battles, conquests and intrigue that span the world’s oceans, taking readers to the UK, the US, South America, Venice, Fr...

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  • BRITISH NAVAL GUN MOUNTINGS
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    BRITISH NAVAL GUN MOUNTINGS
    IAN BUXTON
    “… illustrated with dozens of photos, many previously unpublished, but what most readers will find of greatest interest are the turret diagrams, with color-coded drawings reproduced from the original ships’ technical manuals.” – The NYMAS Review Heavy gun mountings dominated the design of larger warships, on account of their size, weight, protection and cost. In the 1890s, Brit...

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  • JELLICOE'S WAR
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    JELLICOE'S WAR
    NICHOLAS JELLICOE
    In February 1917, German U-boats launched a savage unrestricted campaign against both Allied and neutral shipping. At its peak in April, 860,000 tons of Allied merchant shipping was sunk. Britain’s supremacy at sea was being severely challenged and with it the chances of victory in the wider war. Taking up the challenge was Britain’s new First Sea Lord, Sir John Jellicoe, until...

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  • ARMS FOR RUSSIA & THE NAVAL WAR IN THE ARCTIC, 1941–1945
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    ARMS FOR RUSSIA & THE NAVAL WAR IN THE ARCTIC, 1941–1945
    ANDREW BOYD
    This major new work fundamentally reassesses the operations by the Western allies to deliver war supplies to Russia via the Arctic sea route between 1941 and 1945. It explores the motives underpinning Western aid, its real impact on the Soviet war effort, and its influence on wider Allied and German strategy as the war developed. It brings to life key participants, political an...

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  • AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL NAVY
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    AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL NAVY
    DAVID HOBBS
    This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft together with many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential technological impact on carrier...

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  • SAILING SHIPS FROM PLASTIC KITS
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    SAILING SHIPS FROM PLASTIC KITS
    KERRY JANG
    Models of sailing ships, with their towering masts and billowing sails, have always held a special fascination for model makers because they capture all the romance of the sea, shipboard life, and a fighting spirit. However, many would-be modelers are discouraged by the inherent complexity of the subject – especially the masts and rigging, as well as the often-sumptuous decorat...

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  • STEAM YACHTS AT WAR
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    STEAM YACHTS AT WAR
    STEVE DUNN
    “Steam Yachts at War is informative and Dunn is a competent writer. The book is also extremely well illustrated with the 150+ photos being uniformly excellent. The inclusion of plans for six yachts is a particularly nice touch.” -National Maritime Historical Society This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into wea...

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  • BRITISH COASTAL FORCES
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    BRITISH COASTAL FORCES
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    The Royal Navy invented the fast motor torpedo boat during the First World War, and used it and other small coastal craft to great effect during the Second. This book tells the dramatic story of British coastal forces, both offensive and defensive, in both World Wars and beyond. In the Second World War, British coastal forces fought a desperate battle to control the narrow seas...

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  • THE POWER AND THE GLORY
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    THE POWER AND THE GLORY
    STEVE DUNN
    The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar, which was the final exhibition of that pomp and ceremony that had been an essential if irregular expression of naval strength for more than 500 years. Whether to impress or deter a foreign power, ofte...

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  • HMS TERROR
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    HMS TERROR
    MATTHEW BETTS
    In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest technologies for polar service and, at the time, were the most advanced sailing vessels developed for Polar exploration. Both ships, but...

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  • DESTROYER COSSACK
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    DESTROYER COSSACK
    JOHN ROBERTS
    The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans wer...

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  • EAGLES OVER THE SEA, 1943–45
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    EAGLES OVER THE SEA, 1943–45
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    This is the second volume of Lawrence Paterson’s detailed account of all the Luftwaffe’s naval operations during World War II. The first volume took the story up to 1942, and by the end of that year Hermann Göring’s Reich Air Ministry had subsumed nearly every aspect of Wehrmacht maritime aviation. Kriegsmarine attempts to develop an independent Fleet Air Arm had been perpetual...

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  • SUBMARINES OF WORLD WAR TWO
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    SUBMARINES OF WORLD WAR TWO
    ERMINIO BAGNASCO
    For the first time in naval warfare submarines played a major role in the war at sea in the years 1939–45, and this major reference book describes all the classes of vessel that were deployed by the eighteen combatant nations during those years. They were responsible for the sinking of 33 million tons of merchant shipping with the German and US navies achieving the greatest adv...

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  • BRITISH WARSHIP RECOGNITION: THE PERKINS IDENTIFICATION ALBUMS
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    BRITISH WARSHIP RECOGNITION: THE PERKINS IDENTIFICATION ALBUMS
    RICHARD PERKINS
    The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by anyone besides the museum’s curators, for whom it is a precious resource, used o...

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  • CRUISER BIRMINGHAM
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    CRUISER BIRMINGHAM
    CONRAD WATERS
    The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. They were very large – more than 12 feet long for capital ships – highly detailed, annotated and labelled, and ...

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  • BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
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    BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN / DAVID R HIGGINS
    This is a companion volume to Friedman’ s highly successful _British Battleship 1906–1946_ and completes his study of the Royal Navy’s capital ships. Beginning with the earliest installation of steam machinery in ships of the line, the book traces the technological revolution that saw the introduction of iron hulls, armour plate, shell-firing guns and the eventual abandonment o...

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  • BATTLESHIP WARSPITE
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    BATTLESHIP WARSPITE
    ROBERT K BROWN
    The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. They were very large – more than 12 feet long for capital ships – highly detailed, annotated and labeled, and d...

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  • CHURCHILL AND FISHER
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    CHURCHILL AND FISHER
    BARRY GOUGH
    A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty and the ageing Admiral ‘Jacky’ Fisher as professional master and creator of Dreadnought, locked together in perilous destiny. Upon these ‘Titans at the Admiralty’ rested Allied command of the sea at the moment of its supr...

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  • BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE OF WW II
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    BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE OF WW II
    MALCOLM WRIGHT
    During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this the second volume by maritime artist Mal Wright, both the official and unofficial paint schemes that adorned the cru...

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  • VERY SPECIAL SHIPS
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    VERY SPECIAL SHIPS
    ARTHUR NICHOLSON
    Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. They operated not only as offensive minelayers – dashing into enemy waters under cover of darkness – but in many other roles, most famously as blockade runners to Malta. In lieu of mines, they trans...

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  • THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1906-1946
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    THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1906-1946
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    The British battleship is one of the most intensely studied of all naval topics, but it is also among the most popular. Norman Friedman is one of the most highly regarded of all naval writers, with an avid following for his work. Therefore, a new book on British battleships by Friedman is a major event, and has been eagerly awaited ever since knowledge of the project began to c...

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  • NELSON'S BAND OF BROTHERS
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    NELSON'S BAND OF BROTHERS
    CAPTAIN PETER HORE
    While there is a perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins, their characters and the achievements in their lives beyond their service under Nelson. This new book, researched and written by distinguished historians, descendants of some of Ne...

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  • FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW
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    FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW
    ARTHUR J MARDER
    The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivalled mastery of sources he adds a gift of simple narrative . . . He is beyond praise, as he is beyond cavil.' The five...

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  • BATTLESHIP RAMILLIES
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    BATTLESHIP RAMILLIES
    IAN JOHNSTON / MICK FRENCH
    HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique – s...

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  • FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW
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    FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW
    ARTHUR J MARDER
    The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivaled mastery of sources he adds a gift of simple narrative . . . He is beyond praise, as he is beyond cavil.' The five ...

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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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  • THE COMING OF THE COMET
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    THE COMING OF THE COMET
    NICK ROBINS
    In August 1812 Henry Bell’s 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 Company’s wooden walls off the seas; it provi...

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  • THE NEW CUNARD QUEENS
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    THE NEW CUNARD QUEENS
    NILS SCHWERDTNER
    The venerable Queen Elizabeth 2 has long since become a floating legend. Launched in 1967, she was for three decades considered the last of her kind, a cherished and beloved remnant from the age of the great ocean liners. So Cunard’s decision, on the eve of the new Millennium, to build a new liner for the transatlantic service, caused widespread interest. The Queen Mary 2 would...

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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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  • 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 Historica...

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