Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
by Les Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over...
by Steve Backer
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The latest volume covers the hugely important American carrier of the Second World War. Built in larger numbers than any fleet carrier before or since, the Essex class can claim to be the US Navy's most significant weapon in the defeat of Japan. Carrying up to 100 aircraft and capable of absorbing...
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow
Volume III: Jutland and After May to December 1916
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivalled mastery of sources he adds a gift...
Giants of the Seas
The Ships that Transformed Modern Cruising
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The cruise ship market is a 30 billion-dollar industry, and in 2013 it is estimated that it will carry more than 20 million passengers; nor is there any sign of a slow down in the seven percent annual growth. What keeps the passengers coming in such huge numbers isn't the food, the ports or the entertainment....
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The seventeenth century saw the transformation of Britain from a minor state on the fringes of Europe into a global economic power, whose interests were protected and promoted by the largest navy in the world. The character of this navy was forged by a bloody civil war, three fiercely disputed conflicts...
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow
Volume IV: 1917, Year of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivalled mastery of sources he adds a gift...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War. It provides the overall political and economic...
The Battlecruiser HMS HOOD
An Illustrated Biography 1916-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
The battlecruiser HMS Hood is one of the great warships of history. Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and colour illustrations,...
The End of Glory
War & Peace in HMS Hood 1916-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
There have been many fine books written on HMS Hood, the glory of the Royal Navy, while television and cinema have also taken the subject to their heart. No book, however, has ever offered the combination of in-depth research and thrilling narrative to be found in The End of Glory.
For twenty...
Stand by for Action
The Memoirs of a Small Ship Commander in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The author of this compelling memoir proved himself one of the most successful small ship commanders during the Norwegian campaign in 1940, and then served at sea continuously throughout the rest of the War.
In Norway, as second-in-command of a Black Swan sloop, he experienced the suspense and...
British Aircraft Carriers
Design, Development & Service Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class,...
by Ian Buxton, Ian Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The launch in 1606 of HMS Dreadnought, the worlds's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked in the same arms race with Germany, Britain...
British Destroyers
J-C and Battle Classes
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their...
Tudor Sea Power
The Foundation of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising...