| | | Above Us the Waves.
 | The book is divided into five parts. The first covers the development, training, growing pains and the attempt on the Tirpitz, the second and third to Mediterranean and Norwegian operations, while the fourth deals with the coast of Fortress Europe and the Normandy Beaches. Part Five considers the special preparations for the Far East and the exploits achieved in the fight against the Japanese. There are several appendices and an index to complete an absorbing record of a novel and important innovation in warfare. Author: James Benson & C E T Warren. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Paperback. 256pp. 13cm by 19cm. ISBN-13: 9781844154401 Original Price: £9.99 Price: Price: £3.99
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Book of Naval Obituaries
 | Here are more than one hundred biographies which were published in The Daily Telegraph during the past 20 years, men of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, and Fleet Air Arm, as well as the merchant service.Editor: David Twiston Davies. Publisher: Grub Street.Paperback. 432pp. 14cm by 21cm.ISBN-10: 1904943691.ISBN-13: 9781904943693.Original Price £10.99. Price: Price: £2.99
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Blunders and Disasters at Sea
 | As any sailor knows, life at sea is hazardous under even normal circumstances. In times of war with an enemy intent on killing and sinking you it is infinitely more so. David Blackmore has researched 100 extreme cases over the span of history and written graphic descriptions covering the background, the events and the tragic consequences.Author: David Blackmore. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback.ISBN-13: 9781844151172 Original Price: £19.99 Price: Price: £6.99
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But No Brass Funnel.
 | A highly readable account of the author's life served on board eight different classes of warship and his subsequent years in the Merchant Navy commanding oil tankers.Author: J. Douglas Stewart. Publisher: Whittles.Paperback. 247pp. 17cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781904445104.Original Price £17.95. Price: Price: £3.99
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By Hellship to Hiroshima.
 | Taken prisoner in Java, Terence Kelly's captivity was full of incident. He was witness to barbaric cruelty and suffering particularly on the journey packed into a filthy cargo ship under atrocious and inhumane conditions. Once in Japan, he was a slave in the Hitachi shipyards where he got to know other Japanese and learn their language.Author: Terence Kelly. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback.ISBN-13: 9781844154036Original Price: £19.99 Price: Price: £7.99
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Century of British Naval Aviation 1909-2009.
 | Here is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding colour to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical take-off.Author: David Wragg. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 252pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781848840362.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Changing Course.
 | A highly personal and often poignant account of the author's life as a Wren during her wartime experiences from 1939 to 1945. It gives a fascinating insight into service life at that time as well as the reshaping of her own outlook and attitudes.Author: Roxanne Houston. Publisher: Grub Street.Hardback. 271pp. 15cm by 22cm. ISBN-10: 1904943101.ISBN-13: 9781904943105.Original Price £17.99. Price: Price: £2.99
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Companion to the Germany Navy.
 | An examination of the different roles of the Fleet, and its organization and training activities during the war years. Incidents and operations are described, together with technical data for ships, U-boats and their weaponry. A guide to German Navy uniforms and insignia is included, together with full details of rank structure and specialist trades.Author: Jak P Mallimann Showell. Publisher: History Press. Paperback. 274pp. 17cm by 25cm. ISBN-13: 9780752451015.Original Price £14.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Death For Desertion.
 | 'It is a soldier's tale cut in stone to melt all hearts'. Thus Winston Churchill wrote in his introduction to A P Herbert's novel The Secret Battle, a book inspired by and quite clearly based on the execution of Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Dyett of the Nelson Battalion, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division on 5 January 1917, for desertion in the face of the enemy.Author: Leonard Sellers. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Paperback.ISBN-13: 9780850529777Original Price: £12.95 Price: Price: £4.99
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Death in the Doldrums.
 | A history of the German Type IX U-Cruisers which were deployed off west Africa during World War II to cause maximum damage to Allied shipping, a task they performed better than previously realised.Author: Bernard Edwards. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 200pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN-10: 1844152618.ISBN-13: 9781844152612.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Death On the Hellships.
 | This detailed chronicle of the Japanese treatment of POWs during World War II reveals the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea.Author: Gregory F Michno. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback.ISBN-13: 9780850528213Original Price: £25.00 Price: Price: £7.99
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Destroyer Actions.
 | Utilising eye-witness accounts of those who participated in them, Destroyer Actions focuses on the human side of naval operations during the first eight months of the Second World War.Author: Harry Plevy. Publisher: History Press.Paperback. 272pp. 15cm by 23cm.ISBN-13: 9781862274839.Original Price £12.99. Price: Price: £4.99
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Destroyer Battles.
 | Well written narratives of dramatic engagements with much new information on many little-known incidents and international in scope, covering a century of naval warfare.Author: Robert C Stern. Publisher: Seaforth.Hardback. 272pp. 17cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781848320079.Original Price £25.00. Price: Price: £9.99
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Disasters of the Deep.
 | This is the fully revised and updated edition of the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present day. Author: Edwyn Gray. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback.ISBN-13: 9780850529876Original Price: £19.95 Price: Price: £7.99
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Donitz's Last Gamble.
 | After the June 1944 D-Day landings D'nitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements necessary to supply the Allied armies advancing across Europe.Author: Lawrence Paterson. Publisher: Seaforth.Hardback. 208pp. 17cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844157143.Original Price £25.00. Price: Price: £7.99
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Enigmatic Sailor.
 | The story of a seagoing eavesdropper during the Second World War, a role that needed quick intelligence and a need to face up to danger and excitement.Author: Alan Peacock. Publisher: Whittles.Paperback. 118pp. 17cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781904445098.Original Price £14.95. Price: Price: £3.99
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Escaper's Progress.
 | A truly thrilling WW2 escape saga of the author who was a naval POW who eventually made a ‘home run’.Covers his capture, interrogation, camp life, various escape attempts and his experiences ‘on the run’.Author: David James. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 166pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844158430.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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German Naval Code Breakers.
 | An in-depth account of the less well-known German code-breakers of World War II and their activities impacted on naval operations in european waters.Author: Jak P. Mallmann Showell. Publisher: Ian Allan.Hardback. 160pp. 21cm by 26cm.ISBN-13: 9780711028883.Original Price £24.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Luck on my Side.
 | The diaries and reflections of a young wartime sailor from 1939 to 1945 that vividly conveys the reality of war at sea and also the detachment that so many young men developed to the constant danger of naval life in the period.Author: John Palmer. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 164pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN 9780850529104.Original Price £19.95. Price: Price: £6.99
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Modern Warships.
 | One of Airlife's 'Vital Guides' that is a full colour look at modern warships from all around the world, from Aircraft Carriers to Logistic Support Vessels.Author: Leo Marriott. Publisher: Airlife.Hardback. 128pp. 15cm by 21cm.ISBN-13: 9781840371772.Original Price £9.99. Price: Price: £3.99
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Nautical Training Ships.
 | The story of the training ships that helped keep Britain a maritime nation from their demise as Britain's once proud merchant marine declined in the later years of the twentieth century.Author: Phil Carradice. Publisher: Amberley.Paperback. 189pp. 17cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781848686960.Original Price £17.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Naval Heritage in the West, Part 3.
 | A pictorial and nostalgic view of the Navy in the Westcountry that also covers the Royal Marine Commandos.Author & Publisher: Andy Endacott.Paperback. 64pp. 20cm by 25cm.ISBN-10: 0951152726.Original Price £6.50. Price: Price: £2.99
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Night Action.
 | This memoir is Peter Dickens' account of his experiences as the young commander of the 21st MTB Flotilla during 1942-43, mainly in the North Sea and the Channel. In all the annals of the war at sea, comparatively little has been written about the role of the torpedo boat.Author: Peter Dickens. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Paperback. 242pp. 13cm by 20cm.ISBN-13: 9781848320123.Original Price £9.99. Price: Price: £3.99
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No Ordinary War.
 | U-604 was a standard Type VIIC of which over 600 were built, and at first glance her six war patrols might seem typical - but they were far from ordinary. Using the official war diary and the eyewitness testimony of survivors this book weaves a detailed but vivid tapestry of life and action during some of the fiercest convoy battles of the Atlantic war.Author: Christian Prag. Publisher: Seaforth.Hardback. 192pp. 18cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781848320222.Original Price £25.00. Price: Price: £9.99
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Plan Z.
 | PLAN Z was the name given for the massive fleet that Germany intended to build, However the Plan relied on the outbreak of the war not occurring at least until 1942. This book examines the way in which such a fleet could have influenced the major battles between the Royal Navy and the Germans.Author: David Wragg. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 210pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844157273.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Red Star Under The Baltic.
 | This is the graphic personal account of a Soviet submariner during his years at sea in the Baltic during the Second World War. It describes all the action - and there was plenty of it - that the author was involved in, including numerous engagements with and sinkings of German shipping in the Baltic.Author: Viktor Korzh. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback.ISBN-13: 9781844151387.Original Price: £19.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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River-class Frigates and the Battle of the Atlantic.
 | Drawing on previously unpublished ship plans, photographs, naval documents and eye witness accounts that is a complete and exhaustive study of the River-Class, and their contribution to the Battle of the Atlantic.Author: Brian Lavery. Publisher: National Maritime Museum.Paperback. 254pp. 16cm by 23cm.ISBN-13: 9780948065736.Original Price £14.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Royal Fleet Auxiliary in Focus.
 | One of the 'Royal Navy in Focus' Series that provides a well documented and fully illustrated account of the ships of the Royal Navy and auxiliary forces over 50 years.Author: Jon Wise. Publisher: Maritime Books.Paperback. 128pp. 24cm by 18cm. ISBN 9780907771890.Original Price £9.95. Price: Price: £3.99
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Royal Navy & the Peruvian-Chilean War 1879-1881.
 | A unique collection of watercolours painted by a British sailor of fortune that will appeal to art collectors and discerning naval historians. With rare eye-witness account of a fierce but little known war played out in the Pacific.Editor: Gerard de Lisse. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 176pp. 23cm by 23cm.ISBN-13: 9781844156528.Original Price £30.00. Price: Price: £12.99
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Sacrifice For Stalin
 | The true cost and value of the Arctic convoys re-assessed, written by a foremost naval historian of the period using official naval records and personal accounts.Author: David Wragg. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 230pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844153572Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Service Most Silent.
 | From the very outset of war Nazi Germany demonstrated its determination and ability to lay siege to the British Isles by the laying of mines in shipping lanes. Losses to both merchant ships and naval vessels became a serious factor.Author: John Frayn Turner. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 200pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844157266.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Seven Seas Nine Lives.
 | A biography of Captain A.W.F.Sutton that commences with him commanding a small picket boat returning potentially mutinous crew to HMS Repulse and ending in the cockpit of a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber over the Italian Fleet at Taranto in November 1940.Author: Richard Pike. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 198pp. 16cm by 24cm. ISBN-10: 1844153533.ISBN-13: 9781844153534.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Silent Warriors.
 | This is the story of the submarines that did not come home in both war and peace, this volume 2 covers the area along England's south coast from Sussex to the Scilly Isles.Author: Ron Young & Pamela Armstrong. Publisher: History Press.Paperback. 351pp. 17cm by 25cm.ISBN-13: 9780752447896.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Slaughter at Sea.
 | The author has uncovered a plethora of Japan's naval war crimes against both servicemen and civilians which make chilling and shocking reading. These range from the execution of POWs, the abandonment of survivors to the elements and certain starvation to the infamous Hell Ships.Author: Mark Felton. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 213pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844156474.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Smoke and Mirrors.
 | The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during the First World War, when the Royal Navy to trap and destroy German U-boats.Author: Deborah lake. Publisher: History Press.Paperback. 241pp. 15cm by 23cm.ISBN-13: 9780752450551.Original Price £16.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Soldier, Sailor & Airman Too.
 | A comprehensive history of the life and career of Group Captain A.B."Woody" Woodhall. A unique slice of British Army, Royal Marine, Royal Navy and RAF history, spanning both World Wars.Author: Woody Woodhall. Publisher: Grub Street.Hardback. 285pp. 19cm by 25cm.ISBN-13: 9781906502218.Original Price £20.00. Price: Price: £6.99
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Strike From Beneath the Sea.
 | This is the definitive history of the unique and experimental and production craft that have culminated in the nuclear-powered, ICBM-carrying submarines of today.Author: Terry C Treadwell. Publisher: History Press.Paperback. 191pp. 17cm by 25cm.ISBN-13: 9780752452432.Original Price £14.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Strike from the Sea.
 | An important study of naval sea power against the dramatic backdrop of the Gulf which embraces numerous wars and dangerous international situations. An expert description of modern naval warfare.Author: Iain Ballantyne. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 256pp. 18cm by 25cm.ISBN-13: 9781844150595.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £8.99
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Tirpitz.
 | One of Ian Allan's 'Secret Operations' that exposes the truth behind the German battleship Tirpitz and her attacks on Allied shipping during World War II.Author: Peter Howard. Publisher: Ian Allan.Paperback. 96pp. 22cm by 30cm.ISBN-13: 9780711030930.Original Price £16.99. Price: Price: £6.99
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Twilight of the U-Boats
 | In essence, this is the story of U-223,commanded by Karl-Jurgen Wachter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in March 1944. Author: Bernard Edwards. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback.ISBN-13: 9781844150359.Original Price: £19.95. Price: Price: £6.99
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U-Boat War 1939-1945.
 | The U-Boat war is a unique visual record of Hitler`s infamous submarine fleet and a grim account of those that lived, worked and risked their lives stalking the depths of the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas.Author: Ian Baxter. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Paperback. 126pp. 19cm by 25cm.ISBN-13: 9781844157860.Original Price £14.99. Price: Price: £4.99
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U-Boat Warfare.
 | A detailed study of the strategy and tactics of the U-Boat fleet during World War II and how this led to the term wolfpacks and what they actually did on the high seas.Author: Jak P. Mallmann Showell. Publisher: Ian Allan.Hardback. 160pp. 21cm by 26cm.ISBN-13: 9780711028876.Original Price £24.99. Price: Price: £8.99
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Ultra Versus U-Boats.
 | The U-boat war as revealed by the Ultra decrypts and the first publication of decoded German signals held by the National Archives and historic wartime photographs of U-boats in action with unique insight into the Battle of the Atlantic.Author: Roy Convers Nesbit. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Harback. 248pp. 19cm by 25cm. ISBN-13: 9781844158744.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £9.99
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War of the Gunboats.
 | The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an enemy's coastal shipping - and sometimes much larger warships - they acquired the buccaneering spirit of an earlier age.Author: Bryan Cooper. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781848840188.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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Waves of Hate.
 | This book is the result of an in-depth study covering the Second World War. It reveals a long catalogue of atrocities perpetrated not just by Germany and Japan but, sensationally, by the British and her Allies.Author: Tony Bridgland. Publisher: Pen & Sword.HardbackISBN-13: 9780850528220Original Price: £19.95 Price: Price: £7.99
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West Coast Support Group.
 | The first complete portfolio providing technical details and illustrations of naval vessels participating in Task Group 96.8 from 1950 to 1953.Author: M.P.Crocker. Publisher: Whittles.Paperback. 163pp. 17cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781870325592.Original Price £17.95. Price: Price: £3.99
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Wolfpacks at War.
 | The story of life in the Kriegsmarine during World War II, supported by many archive photographs, many in colour of these U-Boat crews and commanders.Author: Jak Mallmann Showell. Publisher: Ian Allan.Hardback. 128pp. 22cm by 30cm.ISBN-13: 9780711029286.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £9.99
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Wooden Walls to Stone Frigate.
 | A pictorial and nostalgic history of HMS Cambridge, the Naval Gunnery training establishment.Author & Publisher: Andy Endacott. Paperback. 64pp. 21cm by 30cm.ISBN-10: 0951152742.Original Price £8.99. Price: Price: £3.99
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XD Operations.
 | The first account of the daring operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers who were given the task of destroying all the oil reserves stored in coastal port refineries from Holland to the Bay of Biscay.Author: C.C.H. Brazier. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Paperback. 165pp. 15cm by 23cm. ISBN-10: 1844153134.ISBN-13: 9781844153138.Original Price £10.99. Price: Price: £3.99
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Zeebrugge Raid.
 | On 23 April 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in history. The aim was to block the Zeebrugge Canal, thereby denying U-boat access, although this meant assaulting a powerfully fortified German naval base.Author: Phillip Warner. Publisher: Pen & Sword.Hardback. 238pp. 16cm by 24cm.ISBN-13: 9781844156771.Original Price £19.99. Price: Price: £7.99
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