Military History  /  Naval & Maritime
White Water Red Hot Lead Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9781636244518
Pub Date: 13 Oct 2024
Illustrations: b&w images throughout
Description:
During the Vietnam war 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, with the average age of the crew being twenty-four. Their days consisted of deadly combat, intense lightning firefights, storms and many hidden dangers.
RRP: £19.95
Maritime Strike Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636241135
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2022
Illustrations: 20 photographs
Description:
In April 2011, the newly created Royal Navy Response Force Task Group deployed to the Mediterranean to provide a range of military options in response to the Arab Spring. For the next six months the group planned and prepared for a range of potential operations including noncombatant evacuations from Libya, Yemen and Syria, maritime interdiction operations off the Libyan coast, and amphibious landings. On 3 June the group began launching attack helicopter strikes into Libya and in the nights that followed planned 47 and executed 22 strikes destroying a range of targets including: 54 vehicles, 2 rigid hull boats, 2 BM 21 rocket launchers, 4 main battle tanks, 1 zsu antiaircraft vehicle and 3 command and control nodes.

Catalogue of the 1st International Online Marine Art Exhibition

Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781911408932
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Sansom & Company
Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781636240862
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2021
Series: Casemate Illustrated Special
Illustrations: Over 200 photographs, diagrams and artwork
Description:
When HMS Dreadnought was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1906 this revolutionary new class of big-gun iron-clad warship immediately changed the face of naval warfare, rendering all other battleships worldwide obsolete. The Admiralty realised that as soon as the ship was revealed to the global naval community Britain would be a in race to stay ahead, and so the first dreadnoughts were built in record time. While there were those who regarded the vessel as a triumphant revolution in naval design, the dreadnought initially had its critics, including those who thought its slower, heavier guns left it vulnerable to the secondary armament of other warships.
The French Aircraft Carrier Clemenceau Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9788366673564
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2021
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Top Drawings
Illustrations: drawing sheets, color profiles
Description:
The French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St.
Guy Griffiths Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781922454683
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
In his long career in the Royal Australian Navy, Guy Griffiths participated in its emergence from Depression-era stricture, pre-World War II, to its reinvention in the 1950s and 60s as a capable middle-power force centred on aircraft carriers in the missile age. In this time, he personally experienced the RAN's darkest days in the face of the Japanese onslaught and its fi nest hour in the Philippines Campaign of World War II, and its close involvements in the Korean War and then the Vietnam War. He witnessed the realities of war in positions of increasing responsibility.
U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939-45 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612009346
Pub Date: 05 Jul 2021
Series: Casemate Illustrated Special
Illustrations: Over 200 photos, diagrams and illustrations
Description:
This extensively illustrated volume tells the dramatic yet successful story of US aircraft carriers in World War II by class, ranging from early pre-war designs to escort carriers built from destroyer hulls, to the gigantic fleet carriers serving as the predecessors of modern-day super carriers. Besides covering the famous great carrier battles in the Pacific, this book also tells of the equally important actions of US flat tops hunting and destroying German U-boats in the Atlantic, making an enormous contribution to the elimination of the U-boat dangers and the safe arrival of transatlantic supplies, so desperately needed for the launch of D-Day. Including profiles and explanatory text boxes, the concise text gives a clear overview of each ship’s career, its fate and its significance in American naval history.
The Aircraft Carrier HMS Invincible Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9788366673267
Pub Date: 17 Apr 2021
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Top Drawings
Illustrations: drawing sheets, color profiles
Description:
HMS Invincible was the lead ship of a class of British light aircraft carriers built between 1973 and 1985, originally designed as "through-deck cruisers" (TDC). This set them apart from conventional helicopter-carrying ships of the time, which typically featured a flight deck in the aft section of the vessel. Invincible-class carriers were the world’s largest warships powered by gas turbines and featured a modular design which allowed replacement and upgrades of various elements of propulsion system and equipment without the need for any structural modifications of the hull.
Sighted Sub, Sank Same Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 217
ISBN: 9781612007830
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2019
Illustrations: Over 200 b/w images
Description:
Sighted Sub, Sank Same examines the United States Naval air campaign against German U-boats prowling for allied merchant shipping traversing the waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean; an economic war waged to cut the lifeline of food and armaments sailing across the Atlantic from North America. This battle of the Atlantic evolved into a far-ranging conflict beyond the North Atlantic and the eastern seaboard of the United States. It covered the frigid waters off Iceland down to the warm waters of Florida, through the Caribbean Sea, across the ocean to the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean Sea, down to Africa, and across the South Atlantic to Brazil’s southern tip.
Les marins français du Jour J Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9782840484219
Pub Date: 16 Sep 2019
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
4 juin 1944, 18h30, sud de l'Angleterre. Des officiers de liaison montent à bord de vingt-deux bâtiments français. Enfermés avec les commandants, ils leur remettent une grande enveloppe cachetée.
Battleships of World War II. Vol 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9788395157561
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2018
Imprint: Kagero
Illustrations: 276 archival photos
Description:
The idea of creating such an album dedicated to the battleships of World War Two had been born in the last dozen or so years. During this period, various concepts appeared in print, which were meant to present those beautiful ships in the form of a "condensed pill.” Most of the contributions have been made by foreign authors who had had greater access to photographic references.
Erich Raeder Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 326
ISBN: 9781612006635
Pub Date: 23 Aug 2018
Illustrations: 42 b/w photos
Description:
Erich Raeder led the German navy from 1928 to 1943, a period that included the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and World War II. Yet until now, no full-length biography has been written about this extraordinary naval figure. While most historians have viewed Raeder as a product of the Wilhelmian era and heir to Admiral von Tirpitz’s sea power ideology, this work clearly demonstrates Raeder’s affinity with Hitler’s fascism.
RRP: £14.99
Opération Dynamo Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9782840484738
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2017
Imprint: Heimdal
Description:
Quatre ans avant le débarquement allié en Normandie, le littoral français a été le théâtre d’un autre épisode majeur de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il s’agit de l’Opération Dynamo, nettement moins connue que le Jour J. Et pourtant, il suffit de rappeler quelques chiffres pour mesurer l’importance de cette page de l’histoire de la Campagne de France : entre le 27 mai et le 4 juin, près de 350 000 soldats britanniques et français ont été évacués de la poche de Dunkerque par une flotte hétéroclite de 850 bateaux.
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781612005331
Pub Date: 17 Aug 2017
Illustrations: 16 pages photos
Description:
‘The kind of story you'd find in illustrated form in one of the 1960s boys' comics such as Warlord, or Commando. Absolutely enthralling.’Books Monthly ‘It is an interesting story .
The Battleship USS Iowa Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9788365437198
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2017
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Top Drawings
Illustrations: 25
Description:
The American battleship USS Iowa is one of the most famous warships of World War Two era. Built in 1943 at New York Naval Yard she was the lead ship of a series of four battleships of the class named after her and deemed some of the world’s largest and best. During the Second World War USS Iowa went into history as a ship aboard which the president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt travelled to Tehran, where the infamous Tehran Conference, in which two other leaders: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet prime minister Joseph Stalin participated, was held.
The Battleship Vittorio Veneto Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9788365437303
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2017
Imprint: Kagero
Series: Super Drawings in 3D
Illustrations: 144
Description:
Battleship Vittorio Veneto was one of the three Italian Littorio class battleships operating in the Second World War. She was one of the most modern and powerful battleships of her times. She was designed by General Umberto Pugliese and engineer Francesco Mazzullo.