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From Aristotle's description of a submersible chamber and experiments with an underwater capsule by Alexander the Great, inventors have pursued the dream of undersea ...
'From now on, all men operating against German troops in so-called Commando raids are to be annihilated.' Adolf Hitler
This infamous edict was Hitler's ...
An authoritative illustrated guide to the development of underwater vessels, with 400 historical photographs, paintings and cutaways from around the world. From the earliest machines ...
Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk ...
Wars are decided definitively through the occupation of an enemy's territory. This is a task for military forces, which may have to be transported ...
Few who hear the shipping forecast, with its familiar sequence of numbers denoting the expected force of the wind, know what lies behind the man ...
The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age. Seeing the potential for ...
In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designer Andrey Tupolev designed a series of advanced torpedo boats for the USSR. Superbly illustrated, this is their first ...
World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen ...
Revealing the pivotal role played by the QE2 in the Falklands conflict, by two of the volunteers who crewed the liner. When the QE2 entered ...
In grand ironic elegy, Jan Morris tells the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato, most powerful warship of World War II and climax ...
