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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 ...
A follow-up to the author's highly regarded history of British 'Town' class cruisers, this book takes the same approach, combining coverage of the development ...
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 ...
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 ...
An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947, and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J ...
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 ...
This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels ...
This unique memoir charts the career of the author in the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the period 1967 to 1997, and in doing so ...
The smallest ship in Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar was the curiously-named HMS Pickle. The ship was a topsail schooner and, though ...
In November 1923 the Royal Navy dispatched what was named the Special Service Squadron on a ten-month tour around the British Empire. Led by the ...
In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September ...
This volume of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a ...
This superb reference book achieved the status of classic soon after its first publication in 1986; it remains the most popular book on this era ...
The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped ...