The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II
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MIDWAY-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 1945–92 from OSPREY PUBLISHING presents the histories of these predecessors to the modern supercarrier, and were the cornerstone of the United States Cold War fleet.
This is a review by Randy L Harvey of the book, The Pirate Captain Ned Low - His Life & Mysterious Fate from Pen & Sword Books by author Nicky Nielson.
Soviet Motor Gunboats of World War II The Red Army's 'river tanks' from Stalingrad to Berlin. A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II, illustrated throughout with 40 p...
Randy L Harvey reviews the book, The Pirate Menace - Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy, from Osprey Publishing by author Angus Konstam.
Philippines Naval Campaign 1944-45 The Battles After Leyte Gulf
Bill Cross reviews Osprey's new title on the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam during that war.
Randy L Harvey reviews the book, Soviet Motor Gunboats of World War II, The Red Army's 'river tanks' from Stalingrad to Berlin, from Osprey Publishing by author Przemyslaw Budzbon and illustrators Waldemar Góralski and Piotr Forkasiewicz.
The book provides the history and development of the Protected Cruiser class, followed by its design and construction. It examines the propulsion, armaments s and the structural protection. The Book is a solid source of the transitional age of the US Navy...
Bill Cross reviews the first of the new three-part series on France's war in Indochina, what many now call the First Vietnam War.
NAVAL BATTLE OF CRETE 1941, THE ROYAL NAVY AT BREAKING POINT is a new book from OSPREY PUBLISHING LTD. This recounts surface actions and air attacks that lead the commanding British admiral to rebuff calls to retreat, stating, ‘It takes the Navy three ye...
SUPER-BATTLESHIPS OF WORLD WAR II from OSPREY PUBLISHING explores the Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class designs of the war.
This is a review by Randy L Harvey of the book, Pirate Queens – The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read from Pen & Sword Books by author Rebecca Alexandra Simon.
ARCTIC CONVOYS 1942 from OSPREY PUBLISHING presents an account of the Luftwaffe's victory over convoys to Russia.
THE DARKEST HOUR from HELION & COMPANY is a concise yet detailed two-volume account of the Japanese campaign to secure their western flank of their Pacific war by destroying United Kingdom offensive capabilities of the Royal Navy Far Eastern Fleet. This...
Here we take a look at a Seaforth publishing book courtesy of Pen and Sword titled 'Ship Models from the Age of Sail'.
Filled with an abundance of research, USN SUBMARINE VS IJN ANTISUBMARINE ESCORT is a fascinating study of United States unrestricted submarine warfare and the Japanese campaign to counter it.