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Destroyer Cossack
Release of 13/08/2020
PEN & SWORD
The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these... [read more]

British Naval Weapons of World War Two - The John Lambert Collection, Volume...
Release of 7/08/2020
Seafort Publishing
John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over... [read more]

ShipCraft 26: Riverine Craft of the Vietnam Wars
Release of 29/05/2020
Shipcraft Modelling N°26
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... [read more]

British Town Class Cruisers. Southampton & Belfast Classes: Design,...
Release of 18/11/2019
Seafort Publishing
Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British ‘Town’ class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in... [read more]

Fighting the Great War at Sea. Strategy, Tactics and Technology.
Release of 11/11/2019
Seafort Publishing
The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war even the inevitability of... [read more]

French Armoured Cruisers. 1887 - 1932.
Release of 4/09/2019
Seaforth Publishing
Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk to Britain’s sea lines of communication posed by... [read more]

British Naval Weapons of World War Two. The John Lambert Collection, Volume...
Release of 1/07/2019
Seafort Publishing
John Lambert était un dessinateur naval renommé, dont les plans étaient très appréciés pour leur précision et leur détail par les... [read more]

British Submarines in Two World Wars
Release of 24/06/2019
Seafort Publishing
Although the Royal Navy did not invent the submarine, Norman Friedman’s new book demonstrates how innovative the service was, to an extent which few will recognise. Its submarines performed... [read more]

Battlecruiser REPULSE. Detailed in Original Builders' Plans.
Release of 24/06/2019
Seafort Publishing
The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the ‘as fitted’ general arrangements, these... [read more]

The Last British Battleship. HMS Vanguard,1946-1960.
Release of 20/05/2019
Seafort Publishing
The ninth HMS Vanguard, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honours from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain’s battleships and was... [read more]

GERMAN DESTROYERS
Release of 12/03/2019
ShipCraft 25
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... [read more]

British Naval Weapons of World War Two. The John Lambert Collection, Volume...
Release of 4/03/2019
Seafort Publishing
John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over... [read more]

THE LITTORIO CLASS. Italy's last and largest Battleships 1937-1948....
Release of 17/09/2018
Seafort Publishing
For its final battleship design Italy ignored all treaty restrictions on tonnage, and produced one of Europe’s largest and most powerful capital ships, comparable with Germany’s... [read more]

BRITISH DESTROYERS. From Earliest days to the WWII. Reissue !
Release of 30/08/2018
Seafort Publishing
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... [read more]

British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WW II. Vol.01. Reissue !
Release of 28/08/2018
Seaforth Publishing
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or... [read more]

Italian Naval Camouflage of World War II
Release of 25/07/2018
PEN & SWORD - Seaforth Collection.
This is a major new study of Italian naval camouflage schemes developed and used during World War Two. When Italy entered the War in June 1940, the Regia Marina (Italian navy) was a force still... [read more]

British Battleships of the Victorian Era.
Release of 9/07/2018
PEN & SWORD - Seaforth Publishing.
This is a companion volume to Friedman’ s highly successful British Battleship 1906–1946 and completes his study of the Royal Navy’s capital ships. Beginning with the earliest... [read more]

British Cruisers of the Victorian Era.
Release of 1/12/2017
PEN & SWORD - Seaforth Publishing.
Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of this book the starting point is taken to be... [read more]

The Battleship Holiday. The Naval Treaties and Capital Ship Design.
Release of 27/11/2017
SEAFORTH Collection
Even as the First World War was ending the victorious great powers were already embarked on a potentially ruinous new naval race, competing to incorporate the wartime lessons and technology into... [read more]

Battleships of the United States Navy.
Release of 6/07/2017
PEN & SWORD - IMAGES OF WAR
From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War... [read more]