Angus Konstam: 56 books
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
For hundreds of years, the Scottish soldier has been recording his experiences. From the War of the Spanish Succession until the deployment of regiments in Iraq, Scottish soldiers have written home with tales of their exploits, or had details of their experiences published in newspapers, regimental...
European Ironclads 1860–75
The Gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare.
When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the world's first oceangoing ironclad, France had a warship...
American Civil War Fortifications (1)
Coastal brick and stone forts
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America. These stone and brick forts stretched from New England to the Florida Keys, and as far as the Mississippi River. At the start of the war some were located in the secessionist...
River Plate 1939
The sinking of the Graf Spee
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Days before the outbreak of World War II a handful of German commerce raiders put out to sea to prey on Allied merchantmen. Amongst them was the Panzerschiff ('armoured ship') Graf Spee, a formidable warship that boasted the firepower of a battleship but the size, speed and range of a cruiser. When...
Byzantine Warship vs Arab Warship
7th–11th centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic world for mastery of the Mediterranean. At the heart of this confrontation were the fighting vessels of the two powers, the Byzantine dromon and the Arabic shalandi, both oared warships. In those four...
British Ironclads 1860–75
HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet'
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she...
Sink the Tirpitz 1942–44
The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war.
In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied...
Bannockburn
Scotland's Greatest Battle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
‘ Everyone interested in the battle, for whatever reason, would do well to read this engaging book’ Sunday Times
In Scotland, history and politics often become entangled. For some, the past is a source of inspiration for the future. For others, it becomes a salutary lesson in what mistakes...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. From the Viking longship, pirate ships and super dreadnoughts to today's nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, naval warfare has proved to be an essential component of military forces across the world....
Hunt the Bismarck
The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.
Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured...
Tirpitz in Norway
X-craft midget submarines raid the fjords, Operation Source 1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2019
In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz. Numerous previous attempts to attack the ship from...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2020
During the American War of Independence (1775–83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results....
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline. Facing a shortage of traditional aircraft carriers and shore-based aircraft, the Royal Navy, as a stopgap measure,...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Three times during the 17th century, England and Holland went to war as part of an ongoing struggle for economic and naval supremacy. Primarily fought in the cold waters of the North Sea and the English Channel, the wars proved revolutionary in their impact upon warship design, armament, and naval...