Category: Naval

By Stephen K. Stein

By John Nicholas

By Roger Chesneau

By C. S. Forester

Those exciting stories of high-seas event within the Napoleonic period, which Winston Churchill stumbled on "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway instructed to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced via a brand new iteration of readers. again Bay takes excitement in reissuing those vintage stories in good-looking new alternate paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in complete sail with an almost tenfold raise in revenues: greater than I5O, OOO Hornblower books bought within the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E tv network's sequence of unique videos in accordance with Hornblower's adventures were drastically profitable -- praised by way of critics, loved by means of millions of audience, and winner of the Emmy Award for top miniseries.
-- new videos could be premiering within the spring on A&E.
-- Readers and booksellers who recognize Patrick O'Brian's novels get pleasure from gaining knowledge of this "new" sequence of nautical event tales.

By Jonathan Scott

How did a rural and agrarian English society rework itself right into a mercantile and maritime nation? What function was once performed by way of struggle and the necessity for army defense? How did geographical rules tell the development of English - after which British - political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political reasons, Jonathan Scott's formidable and interdisciplinary examine lines the improvement of the assumption of england as an island state, kingdom after which empire from 1500 to 1800, via literature, philosophy, historical past, geography and shuttle writing. One argument complicated within the technique matters the maritime origins, nature and results of the English revolution. this is often the 1st common research to check altering geographical languages in early smooth British politics, in an imperial, ecu and international context. supplying a brand new standpoint at the nature of early sleek Britain, it will likely be crucial interpreting for college students and students of the interval.

By James Stanier Clarke (editor), John McArthur (editor)

The Naval Chronicle, released in forty volumes among 1799 and 1818, is a key resource for British maritime and armed forces historical past. This reissue is the 1st entire published copy of what was once the main influential maritime ebook of its day. the themes lined variety from debts of battles and lists of ships to notices of promotions and marriages, courts martial and deaths, and biographies, poetry and letters. each one quantity additionally comprises engravings and charts on the subject of naval engagements and critical harbours all over the world. quantity 19 (1808) comprises studies of the seize of Madeira and of Danish possessions within the West Indies. Napoleon's elimination of the Spanish royal kin gave wish that Spain might turn into a British best friend. different goods comprise a file at the profitable trials of the 1st advertisement steamboat in long island, recommendation on studying to swim, and excerpts from poems through Sir Walter Scott.

By Wilbur H Morrison

By David Sears

Usually overshadowed by way of different Pacific struggle engagements resembling halfway or Guadalcanal, the conflict of Leyte Gulf was once characterised via one of the most gallant hours in seagoing heritage: the U.S. Navy's defeat of the mixed eastern fleet through the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944. related to extra ships than even the gargantuan First international warfare conflict of Jutland and 200 thousand males, it was once the largest naval conflict in international historical past. It marked the final time that vast capital ships fought close by and sound of one another. utilizing the non-public bills of the lads who have been there, Sears tells this large and compelling story.This relocating story makes use of own money owed of the veterans who accomplished victory within the greatest and final nice naval conflict, mostly fought with getting older ships, untested reserve crews, and teenaged wrestle airplane pilots. usually overshadowed through different Pacific struggle engagements resembling halfway or Guadalcanal, the conflict of Leyte Gulf was once characterised by means of one of the most gallant hours in seagoing historical past: the U.S. Navy's defeat of the mixed jap fleet throughout the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944. related to extra ships than even the gargantuan First global battle conflict of Jutland and 2 hundred thousand males, it was once the largest naval conflict in international historical past. It marked the final time large capital ships fought within reach and sound of one another. utilizing the private debts of the lads who have been there, Sears tells this sizeable and compelling story.The conflict of Leyte Gulf might have been the Pacific War's conflict of the Bulge. In an area of 12 hours, Japan, a overwhelmed, cornered enemy, used to be capable of devise and execute a technique that just about pierced the guts of America's warfare computing device. the true margin of victory might come from marvelous quarters: from getting older ships risen from the graveyard of the war's notorious first day; from small, swiftly built ships with mostly untested reserve crews; from fragile aid ships by no means meant to be at any place close to battles of this scale; and from strive against airplane piloted through children.

By R A. Burt

British Battleships, 1919-1939 is among the so much wanted naval reference books considering that its unique booklet in 1993. A masterpiece of study and representation, this new version has been thoroughly redesigned to add over 70 new pictures, many by no means earlier than noticeable in print.

Offering an unheard of variety of element on the entire Royal Navy's battleships and conflict cruisers, R.A. Burt describes the evolution of the battleship periods via many alterations and refits. He additionally information layout gains, armor, equipment, strength crops, and weaponry, whereas interpreting and studying the functionality of the ships in battle.

A satisfaction for the historian, fanatic, and send modeler, this new quantity is thought of as a vital reference paintings for probably the most major eras in naval heritage and send design.

By Julian Gwyn

The 1st complete research of naval operations related to North American squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates and Foremasts bargains a masterful research of the factors at the back of the deployment of Royal Naval vessels among 1745 and 1815, and the navy's function at the Western Atlantic.

Interweaving historic research with shiny descriptions of pivotal occasions from the 1st siege of Louisbourg in 1745 to the top of the wars with the U.S. and France in 1815, Julian Gwyn illuminates the advanced tale of competing pursuits one of the Admiralty, military Board, sea officials, and executive officers on either side of the Atlantic. In a gripping narrative encompassing sea battles, impressments, and privateering, Gwyn brings to lifestyles key occasions and critical figures. He examines the function of management and the inability of it, not just of seagoing heroes from Peter Warren to Philip Broke, but in addition of land-based officers, similar to many of the Halifax naval backyard commissioners, whose vital contributions are delivered to light.

Gwyn's fabulous evocation of individuals and occasions, with the scholarship he brings to endure at the topic makes Frigates and Foremasts a uniquely authoritative background. splendidly readable, it is going to allure either the intense naval historian and the overall reader attracted to the "why" and "what" of naval historical past on North America's japanese seaboard.

Published in organization with the Canadian conflict Museum