Pen And Sword Maritime imprint: 64 books
by Warren Tute
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
With the defeat of the French forces by the Germans, Winston Churchill was determined that the French fleet would not fall into German hands, and to that end he ordered that every French ship from Alexandria to Martinique, Portsmouth to Dakar either surrender or be seized. Only those in Algeria committed...
Captains Of War
They Fought Beneath the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1988
This book tells the story of captains of submarines and their experiences at war.
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
In 1900 the US Navy took into its first submarine, the Holland VI, into service. With a single torpedo tube, it had a crew of six, weighed 82 tons and traveled submerged at 6.2mph at a depth of up to 75 feet.
Contrast this to the 18 Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarines which entered service...
Bismarck
The Epic Chase
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat – she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of...
by Ballantyne , Iain
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate...
Alarm Starboard!
A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
The Author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt's historic meeting. He survived the disastrous sinking...
Periscope Patrol
The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this.
Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port....
British Warships 1860-1906
A Photographic Record
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Illustrated with 200 official admiralty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this book traces the development of Royal Naval ship design in a period of immense change. Opening with the Crimean War, this period saw the gradual transition from sail to steam and screw propulsion; from wood...
Red Sky in the Morning
The Battle of the Barants Sea 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britains Russian allies. Convoy JW51B sailed in December 1942 with a small close escort of five destroyers, plus a reserve...
'Total Germany'
The Royal Navy' War Against the Axis Powers 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
On the declaration of war in 1939 the British Admiralty signalled all warships and naval bases 'Total Germany, Total Germany'.
It was fortunate that of Germany's three armed services, the Kriegsmarine under
Grosseradmiral Erich Raeder was the least well prepared. True, Admiral Karl Donitz's...
Service Most Silent
The Navy’s Fight Against Enemy Mines
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
From the very outset of war Nazi Germany demonstrated its determination and ability to lay siege to the British Isles by the laying of mines in shipping lanes. Losses to both merchant ships and naval vessels became a serious factor. If supplies continued to be lost by a combination of U-Boat and mine...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume I: 1939- 1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939 through to Germany’s defeat in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, which was announced...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume II: 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the second of three volumes covering the U-boat campaign in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume III: 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the third of three volumes describing U-boat operations in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...