Seaforth Publishing imprint: 222 books
Big Gun Battles
Warship Duels of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The outcome of much of the maritime warfare in the Second World War was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making relatively recent warship types, the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters naval conflict. Yet despite this, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship...
Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers
Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
remove from 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...
Jutland
The Unfinished Battle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
**“A compelling, dramatic account of the Royal Navy's last great sea battle.” —Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Dreadnought
More than a century later, historians still argue about this controversial and misunderstood World War I naval battle...
British Battlecruisers
1905 - 1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in the largest hulls of their era. Conceived as ‘super-cruisers’ to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders, their size and gun-power led to their inclusion in the battlefleet as a fast squadron of capital...
Cold War Command
The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines,...
No Room for Mistakes
British and Allied Submarine Warfare 1939-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
A new book from this bestselling author covering the events at sea in the early years of World War II, in which he has compiled comprehensive research and insight into a highly readable and detailed account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of the war.
The...
German Naval Camouflage Volume II
1942 – 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012 the 1939-1941 volume was quickly recognized by warship enthusiasts and model makers as a major step forward in the understanding of...
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow
Volume II: To The Eve of Jutland 1914-1916
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 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
by Roger Chesneau
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 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, using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and changes in their...
The Grand Fleet
Warship Design and Development 1906-1922
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history; and only ten years after this all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to...
A Home on the Rolling Main
A Naval Memoir 1940-1946
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Tony Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. After brief service in the battlecruiser Renown off Norway and against the Italians, he went into destroyers and saw action in most European theatres – against...
by Charles Nordhoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Like many a restless teenager before him, Charles Nordhoff craved excitement and in 1844, when barely 14, he managed to talk his way into the US Navy. A bookish lad who had been apprenticed to a printer, Nordhoff was better educated than most of his fellow seamen, and was well equipped to describe...
Naval Policy Between Wars. Volume I
The Period of Anglo-American Antagonism 1919-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill...
Naval Policy Between Wars. Volume II
The Period of Reluctant Rearmament 1930-1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill...