Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
The British Pacific Fleet
The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the...
Ship Dioramas
Bringing your models to life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book is about the art of displaying waterline models. By their very nature, ship models that do not show the full hull and are not mounted on an artificial stand cry out for a realistic setting. At its most basic this can be just a representation of the sea itself, but to give the model a context...
by Ian Buxton
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor – indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World...
The Battle for Norway
April-June 1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
This is the second book in a series of two, covering the events at sea during the German invasion of Norway in 1940, the first modern campaign in which sea, air and ground forces interacted decisively.
Part one covers the events at sea off southern and western Norway where Norwegian and British...
The Gathering Storm
The Naval War in Northern Europe September 1939 - April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The term 'the phony war' is often applied to the first months of the Second World War, a term suggesting inaction or passivity. That may have been the perception of the war on land, but at sea it was very different. This new book is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the...
Nelson to Vanguard
Warship Design and Development 1923–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Nelson to Vanguard is the third volume in D K Brown’s bestselling series on warship design and development looks at the Royal Navy’s response to the restrictions placed on it by the Washington Naval Treaties in the inter-war years, and analyses the fleet that was constructed to fight the Second...
Destroyer Battles
Epics of Naval Close Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence....
by Peter Davies-Garner
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
The ShipCraft series explores the iconic pleasure vessels Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic in fully illustrated detail for building your own model ship.
In the first of the ShipCraft series to cover non-naval vessels, this meticulously researched and illustrated volume looks at the legendary cruise...
Assault Landing Craft
Design, Construction & Operators
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The landing craft assault or LCA was one of the unsung heroes of the Second World War. It took part in practically every amphibious operation from Norway to Normandy and landed around 400,000 men in action conditions, plus many more in training. It was the only serviceable British landing craft at...
Wooden Warship Construction
A History in Ship Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they...
Anti-Submarine Warfare
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The submarine was undoubtedly the most potent purely naval weapon of the twentieth century. In two world wars, enemy underwater campaigns were very nearly successful in thwarting Allied hopes of victory - indeed, annihilation of Japanese shipping by US Navy submarines is an indicator of what might...
Warrior to Dreadnought
Warship Design and Development 1860-1905
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the...
Waterline Warships
An Illustrated Masterclass
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Philip Reed, best known for his superb models of ships from the age of sail, here turns his attention to the other highly popular subject for ship modelers - the warships of the Second World War.
The book is a step-by-step manual for building a scratch waterline model of the Ca Class destroyer...
German Light Cruisers of World War II
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series...