Pen And Sword Maritime imprint: 64 books
The Real Cruel Sea
The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods...
Cruise Ships The Small Scale Fleet
A Visiual Showcase
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Peter C. Smith presents us here with the second release in his visually splendid Cruise Ships series. Whilst his first book concerned itself with the large-scale ships currently cruising through our seas (those weighing 40,000 GT and more) this volume focusses on the other end of the market; the ships...
Taming the Atlantic
The History of Man's Battle With the World's Toughest Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Atlantic Ocean has been and remains an often deadly challenge to mankind. This delightful and informative book chronicles the history of attempt to cross its hostile surface from the early days of sail to the most recent record breaking attempts in small ultra-fast craft. In between there have...
Cruise Ships
The World’s Most Luxurious Vessels
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The stunning elegance and luxurious interiors of today’s vast fleet of cruise liners remains unrecorded in all but holiday brochures. This book gives a complete overview of the cream of these ships, today’s queens of the sea.
Each liner is illustrated and described with color illustrations...
by Donald Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
This is the first book to fully document the story behind the Frigates that played such a vital role during World War Two.
by BB Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
In this timeless book, Vice Admiral Schofield describes the great events of June 1944 which, as Captain of HMS Dryad, the Royal Naval shore establishment which housed General Dwight Eisenhower’s Supreme Allied Headquarters before the landing, he witnessed at first hand.
by David Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Seapower was a crucial element in the outcome of the Second World War. The U-Boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were crucial to keeping Russia in the War; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; allied naval supremacy made the D-Day...
HMS Rodney
Slayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitlers navy, the mighty Bismarck in a thrilling duel. The Rodney carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship finally succeeded in turning her adversary into twisted metal and so...
Bomb Alley
Falkland Islands 1982 – Aboard HMS Antrim at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean...
Seven Seas, Nine Lives
The Valour of Captain A.W.F. Sutton, CBE, DSC and Bar, RN
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber...
Sailors on the Rocks
Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did “Rule the Waves”, in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat. One French Admiral wa
by David Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on...
Death in the Doldrums
U-Cruiser Actions off West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dönitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of...