Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
The Kaiser’s Battlefleet
German Capital Ships 1871–1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The battleships of the Third Reich have been written about exhaustively, but there is little in English devoted to their predecessors of the Second Reich. This new book fills an important gap in the literature of the period by covering these German capital ships in detail and studying the full span...
U-Boat Attack Logs
A Complete Record of Warship Sinkings from Original Sources 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
During the Second World War over 250 Allied warships from a dozen navies were sent to the bottom by German U-boats. This ground-breaking study provides a detailed analysis of every sinking for which source material survives from both the Allied and the German sides, resulting in detailed treatment...
Endless Story
Destroyer Operations in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Although it was first published in 1931, Endless Story remains the only comprehensive account of the services of the Navy’s small craft – destroyers, torpedo boats and patrol vessels – during the First World War, and moreover the only one written by an officer personally involved. Even if Dorling...
Rigging Period
Fore-and-Aft Craft
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Employing superb, clear draughtsmanship this book illustrates each and every detail of the rigging of typical period fore-and-aft vessels.
The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex task that any modeller has to accomplish; the intricacies can be daunting and visual references...
Warships of the Napoleonic Era
Design, Development and Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant seapower was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of...
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
The new Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited the largest navy in the world. In the course of the century, this force would see a vast amount of action against nearly every major navy, reaching a pinnacle of success in the Seven Years War only to taste...
by Captain Peter Hore
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
While there is a perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins, their characters and the achievements in their lives beyond their service under Nelson.
This new book,...
British Cruisers
Two World Wars and After
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
For most of the twentieth century Britain possessed both the world’s largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the cruiser – a multi-purpose warship needed in large numbers to...
British Destroyers & Frigates
The Second World War & After
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Since the Second World War the old categories of destroyer and frigate have tended to merge, a process that this book traces back to the radically different 'Tribal' class destroyers of 1936. It deals with the development of all the modern destroyer classes that fought the war, looks at the emergency...
British Destroyers
From Earliest Days to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest exponents of sea power. Not surprisingly,...
From Imperial Splendour to Internment
The German Navy in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict.
The impact of this...
Broadsides
Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity – encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary...
The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters
Linchpin of Victory 1935-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This new work tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of the Second World War; it explains why this contribution, made while Russia's fate remained in the balance and before American economic...
Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class
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...