Product Description: Brian Lavery's extensively researched study takes an in-depth look at the officers of the Royal Navy and the various routes they took from initial recruitment and training to their role in the fighting. The first half of the book looks at the selection and training of all types of officers and includes a chapter on the training establishment where recruits were prepared for war...read more

Product Description: The design, construction, and careers—in history and in fiction—of Jack Aubrey’s favorite command.There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Outlines the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently during the Second World War. This work includes the following chapters: Sea Terms; Navigation; Steering the Ship; Rigging; Anchors and Cables; Boatwork; Miscellaneous; and Ship Safety. It also includes black line illustrations.

Product Description: Brian Lavery, an established authority on the Napoleonic Wars and World War II, articulates the parallels and defining features of these tumultuous periods in our history. He looks at the style and competence of politicians and military commanders and the leadership and example of great men such as Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill and examines unexplored official papers...read more

Product Description: As World War II made its way to Britain, civilians were urged to play their part in the war effort. This pocket-sized handbook captures civilian life during the Battle of Britain through the many leaflets distributed person to person...read more

Product Description: Brian Lavery, the pre-eminent historian of the Royal Navy, turns his astute and wide-ranging analytical eye on to its 'lower deck' - the world of the seamen as distinct from the officers of the 'quarterdeck'. If not totally overlooked in the grand narratives of the Senior Service the lower deck is often only noticed when it is a problem...read more

Just over a million people - 923,000 men and 86,000 women - served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. The training of these men, and the women of the WRNS, was a major task in wartime Britain. This was to be the first real citizen navy, the only one in history apart from the US Navy and Commonwealth navies in the same conflict. Based on official documents, as well as personal accounts by people such as Evelyn Waugh, Nicholas Monsarrat, Tristan Jones and JPW Mallalieu, this book tells one of the major untold stories of the Second World War.

Product Description: Legendary Journeys: Ships unfolds the enthralling history of sea-going vessels as they sailed across the globe, from the invention of simple rafts and dugouts to the new technologies of today’s luxury liners. Ten two-stage sliders with die-cuts and flaps make dramatic features that pull out to reveal amazing details of the world’s iconic ships and their inner workings...read more

Product Description: Brian Lavery returns with the second volume of his engaging social history of the Royal Navy's 'lower deck' ABLE SEAMEN addresses a range of issues central to the evolution of the seaman through 89 years of change. Readable, engaging and authoritative, it chronicles an important stage in the history of the Royal Navy and illuminates the inherent adaptability of the lower deck, as new technologies demanded increased professionalism, specialization, and training...read more

Product Description: The SS Bristol, a world first with new technologies was built in 1843, went around the world 37 times, retired 1889 and now resides back home in Bristol, England where today she is conserved.  Now launched in the Haynes manual treatment, her innovative technology (screw propeller, iron hull and 1000hp steam engine) are all explained along with specially commissioned photographs of the ship’s anatomy...read more

First published in 1990, this encyclopedic yet highly readable work gives an indepth description of the Royal Navy in Lord Nelson's time. Filled with over four hundred illustrations, the book is divided into fourteen sections that deal with the design and construction of ships, the navy's administration, and life at sea. Other topics include shiphandling and navigation, gunnery techniques and fighting tactics, and a discussion of foreign navies of the day. Nelson's Navy is an important source book for the naval historian, a valuable reference for the enthusiast, and a revelation to the general reader.