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Warships: history books - overview (1/9)

Looking for books on navy ships? Explore our selection on battleships, battle cruisers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, aircraft carriers, and submarines here.

Ancient Greek Warship 500-322 B.C.

Nic Fields | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2007

Imperial Roman Warships 193-565 AD

Raffaele D'Amato | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2017

Imperial Roman Warships 27 BC-193 AD

Dr Raffaele D'Amato | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2016

Republican Roman Warships 509-27 BC

Raffaele D'Amato | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2015

Warships of the Ancient World 3000-500 BC

Adrian K. Wood | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2013

Byzantine Warship vs Arab Warship : 7th - 11th Centuries

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 80 p. | 2015

Fighting Ships of the Far East (1) - China and Southeast Asia 202 BC-AD 1419

Stephen Turnbull | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2002

Fighting Ships of the Far East (2) - Japan and Korea AD 612-1639

Stephen Turnbull | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2003

Viking Longship

Keith Durham | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2002

Pirate Ship 1660-1730

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2003

Renaissance War Galley 1470–1590

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2002

Before the Ironclad : Warship Design and Development 1815 - 1860

D. K. Brown | English | hardback | 224 p. | 2015

Hospital Ships and Troop Transport of the First World War

Campbell McCutcheon | English | paperback | 128 p. | 2015

Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery

Norman Friedman | English | hardback | 399 p. | 2014

Torpedo - The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon

Roger Branfill-Cook | English | hardback | 256 p. | 2014

Carriers at War 1939-1945

Adrian Stewart | English | hardback | 228 p. | 2013

Histoire mondiale des porte-avions, des origines à nos jours

Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix | French | paperback | 240 p. | 2022

The Illustrated Guide to Aircraft Carriers of the World

Bernard Ireland | English | paperback | 256 p. | 2012

World War I Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers

Mark Lardas | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2016

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Battleships - From 1860 to the First World War

Captain Peter Hore | English | paperback | 96 p. | 2012

Battleships of the World - Struggle for Naval Supremacy 1820-1945

John Fidler | English | hardback | 128 p. | 2016

Battleships: The First Big Guns - Rare photographs from Wartime Archives

Philip Kaplan | English | paperback | 192 p. | 2014

Dreadnoughts - A Photographic History

Roger D. Thomas, Brian Patterson | English | paperback | 208 p. | 2010

South American Battleships 1908-59 : Brazil, Argentina, and Chile's great dreadnought race

Mark Lardas | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2018

World War Two at Sea - The Last Battleships - Rare photographs from Wartime Archives

Philip Kaplan | English | paperback | 192 p. | 2014

Commonwealth Cruisers 1939-45

Angus Konstam, Paul Wright | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2015

An Illustrated Guide to Frigates of the World

Bernard Ireland | English | paperback | 96 p. | 2011

Fregatten - Geschichte, Technik, Schiffsklassen - seit 1945

Hans Karr | German | paperback | 128 p. | 2013

Korvetten und Patrouillenschiffe - Geschichte - Technik - Schiffsklassen seit 1945

Hans Karr | German | paperback | 128 p. | 2011

Big Gun Monitors - Design, Construction and Operations 1914-1945

Ian Buxton | English | paperback | 256 p. | 2012

Gunboats of World War I

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2015

River Gunboats : An Illustrated Encyclopaedia

Roger Branfill-Cook | English | hardback | 336 p. | 2016

An Illustrated Directory of Amphibious Warfare Vessels

Bernard Ireland | English | paperback | 160 p. | 2013

An Illustrated History of Amphibious Warfare Vessels

Bernard Ireland | English | paperback | 96 p. | 2013

The World Encyclopedia of Amphibious Warfare Vessels

Bernard Ireland | English | hardback | 256 p. | 2011

Histoire des sous-marins, des origines à nos jours (4e édition)

Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, Jean-Marie Mathey | French | paperback | 223 p. | 2022

Sous-marins militaires

David Ross | French | hardback | 224 p. | 2020

Submarines : World War I to the Present

Chris Bishop | English | hardback | 384 p. | 2016

The Illustrated World Guide to Submarines

John Parker | English | paperback | 256 p. | 2013

The World's Greatest Submarines : An Illustrated History

David Ross | English | hardback | 224 p. | 2016

Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914-18

Ryan Noppen | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2016

Österreichisch-ungarische Kriegsschiffe: 1914 bis 1918

Wilhelm Maximilian Donko | German | hardback | 144 p. | 2020

Österreichs Kriegsmarine - Eine Seemacht und ihr Ende

Wilhelm M. Donko | German | hardback | 144 p. | 2018

Unsere Kriegsflotte 1556-1908/18 - Erweiterter Reprint des Marine-Prachtalbums 1908

Elmar Samsinger, M. Christian Ortner | German | hardback | 360 p. | 2019

Austro-Hungarian Battleships, 1914-18

Ryan Noppen | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2012

SMS Viribus Unitis - Austro-Hungarian Battleship

Andrew Wilkie, Friedrich Prasky | English | paperback | 72 p. | 2015

Austro-Hungarian Submarines in WW I

Jiri Novak, Robert Panek | English | paperback | 152 p. | 2012

Österreichisch-ungarische Unterseeboote - und ihre Werften 1906-1918

Wilhelm Maximilian Donko | German | hardback | 176 p. | 2022

England's Medieval Navy 1066-1509 - Ships, Men & Warfare

Susan Rose | English | hardback | 208 p. | 2013

Heritage of the Sea - Famous Preserved Ships Around the UK

Peter C. Smith | English | hardback | 164 p. | 2013

Sailors on the Rocks : Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks

Peter C Smith | English | hardback | 240 p. | 2015

The Royal Navy - 100 Years of Modern Warfare

Julian Thompson | English | hardback | 80 p. | 2016

Spanish Galleon vs English Galleon : 1550-1605

Mark Lardas | English | paperback | 80 p. | 2020

Tudor Warship Mary Rose

Douglas McElvogue | English | paperback | 144 p. | 2020

Tudor Warships (1) - Henry VIII's Navy

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2008

Tudor Warships (2) - Elizabeth I's Navy

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2008

Pepys's Navy : Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-1689

J.D. Davies | English | paperback | 320 p. | 2016

Warships of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-74

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2011

British Napoleonic Ship-of-the-line

Angus Konstam | English | paperback | 48 p. | 2001

HMS Bellerophon

Colin A. Pengelly | English | hardback | 304 p. | 2014

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