Naval forces and warfare

In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle.

Nelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame.

January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops.

In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 times greater than Hiroshima, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.

In Desperate Victories, professional historian Harry Bennett provides first-hand accounts and commentary on the British reaction to one of the greatest shocks in military history - the German blitzkrieg in the west.

Richard Snow, who 'writes with verve and a keen eye' (The New York Times Book Review), tells the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the future of all sea power.

In The Royal Marines and the War at Sea 1939-45 military and naval historian Martin Watts records how marines fought at sea, their relationship with the Royal Navy, and the overall contribution they made to victory in the Second World War.

From at least as early as the eighteenth century it became a tradition that, following operations involving the Royal Navy, the commanding admiral would report to the Admiralty in the form of an official despatch.

In 1977, the remote British island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, host to Napoleon and Captain Bligh, and Boer War prisoner-of-war camp, was first served by a lifeline motorship dedicated to the purpose.

With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there.

The Blue Star Line was founded by brothers William and Edmund Vestey in 1911 to ship meat in refrigerated vessels from Australia, New Zealand and South America to the UK.

Li Wo had been built in 1935 for running a passenger service on the River Yangtse.

The federal immigration station on Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, opened on 1 January 1892.

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Created in 1973 with the amalgamation of the Caledonian Steam Packet Co.

The biggest shipping loss of both world wars was the hospital ship Britannic, at almost 50,000 tons.

The advent of the jet airliner all but killed the liner on the Atlantic route but the ships to Australia survived into the 1970s, not just on the liner trade but also carrying emigrants from the UK and Europe to Australia.

Many thousands of Royal Naval seamen and Royal Marines fought in the trenches of the Great War alongside soldiers from across the Empire.

Sailing, boat owning and living on a Thames spritsail barge have coursed through the veins of the skipper's family since the early 1930s, and it instilled in him a profound love for salt, marsh and mud.

Queen Elizabeth 2: The Last Great Liner tells the story of the Cunard liner.

On the morning of the 16th December 1914, elements of the Imperial German Navy's High Sea Fleet shelled three east coast towns.

The Port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s.

'Port of Southampton' is the story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a colelction of images showing everything from seaman's strikes to shipwrecks, the Titanic and Queen Mary, as well as the other famous ocean liners that have called at the port since the 1840s.

For well over a hundred years all around the coast of Britain there were located a series of nautical training ships.

Built in 1949 in Southampton for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

2008 was a magical year for Cunard.

The final year of the Second World War was very quiet in terms of naval operations, as European leaders turned their minds towards peace with the promise of unconditional German surrender.

The sixth year of the Second World War began positively for the Allies, with the successful landings at Anzio, codenamed Operation Shingle.

At the beginning of the year, the Battle of Guadalcanal was still raging on, but the Americans had secured their first complete victory in the Pacific by the end of February, although the war in this theatre was far from over, with several further engagements taking place throughout the year.

The year 1918 was dominated by the Armistice and the end of the fighting in the War to End All Wars.

As 1942, the fourth year of the war, began, victory for the Allies was still a long way off.

The year 1917 was dominated by the Russian Revolution and America entering the war.

At the beginning of 1941, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy.

For the navies of Britain and Germany, 1916 would be the defining year of the First World War.

January 1940 saw the escalation of the sea war between Britain and Germany.

Submarines and blockades dominated the war at sea in 1915.

In the first of a series of books, naval expert Phil Carradice takes us through the war at sea in 1939, using previously unpublished and rare images of the battles, the ships and the people involved.

The arms race that led to the First World War started in 1897 at the Spithead Naval Review, when Kaiser Wilhelm saw the might of Britain's Navy.

Charles I's authoritative and intolerant rule as monarch, and the unpopular Ship Money tax which he initiated, were instrumental in creating the most splendid and controversial warship in English history.

Chatham has had an association with the Royal Navy since Elizabethan times, moving to its current site in 1622.

From World War Two to the present day, the aircraft carrier has been a potent display of the might of the US Navy.

The story of Nazi Germany's most successful commerce raider of World War Two, sinking over 160,000 tons of Allied shipping.

Used most famously in December 1942, when a small group of ten men in five canoes were dropped off by submarine 80 miles from the inland port of Bordeaux.

This is the definitive account of a mission thought to be an impossible one.

British Commando George Thomsen's action-filled account of combat during the Falklands War.

HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939.

Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete.

During the Second World War, when Britain's very survival depended on her Merchant Navy, ships were being sunk faster than they could be replaced.

By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr.

This book demonstrates the importance of the presence of the Royal Navy in South America.