Brian Lavery: 13 books
The Last Big Gun
At War & At Sea with HMS Belfast
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. After three years of repairs to her broken keel, engine- and boiler-rooms,...
Empire of the Seas
How the navy forged the modern world
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality – that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book...
Empire of the Seas
How the navy forged the modern world
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This new book, a tie-in to a major BBC TV series presented by Dan Snow, is written by one of the nation's foremost naval historians, and tells the story of how the Royal Navy shaped the politics, culture and economy of Britain, leaving its imprint on everything from our landscape, to our democracy and...
The Conquest of the Ocean
An Illustrated History of Seafaring
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
An engaging and vivid read by author and naval historian Brian Lavery, The Conquest of the Ocean tells the 5,000 year history of the remarkable individuals who sailed the seas for trade, to conquer new lands, and to explore the unknown. From the early Polynesian sailors to the first circumnavigations...
by Brian Lavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
""The art of command is…to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.'
A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found huge appeal with the British public....
Churchill's Navy
The ships, people and organisation, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the...
by Brian Lavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson? Were the sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvey? How did life compare between those of a high range, and those who served them? What were conditions like below the decks, living among the rats and the filth?...
Nelson's Victory
250 Years of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still extant, has today become the embodiment of the great Age of Sail.
Many books have been written about Victory but none like this,...
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...
Churchill Goes to War
Winston's Wartime Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
More than an account of Churchill's momentous meetings with Roosevelt, Stalin and other leaders at the height of the Second World War, this book illuminates the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war. No life was more...
The Headscarf Revolutionaries
Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Winter 1968. Three Hull trawlers sink. One fishwife vows to change the law. A powerful story of death and survival. In the harsh Arctic seas of 1968, three trawlers from Hull’s fleet sank in just three weeks. 58 men died. Lillian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, wrote a petition, and stormed into...
End Notes
Ten stories about loss, mourning and commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Whilst End Notes is predominantly fiction there are non-fiction stories covering issues within the following categories: Health & Well Being, Self Help, Mental Health, Death, Grief, Bereavement and Memoirs.
A collection of stories by 8 writers, End Notes tackles with compassion, insight...