Captain Peter G. Hore (1944-) served worldwide in the Royal Navy from 1962 to 2000, mostly in frigates and destroyers. He is a fluent linguist who also plays chess and sailed for the Royal Navy. During the Falklands War he was Joint Logistics Controller on Ascension Island, and he has headed both the Royal Navy's Applied Research Programme and its Non-Technical Research Programmes. His last appointment in uniform was as Head of Defence Studies during the British government's Strategic Defence Review, the rewriting of British Maritime Strategy, and the launch of a new concept of operations, the Maritime Contribution to Joint Operations. Peter Hore is now Associate Editor of Warships International Fleet Review, op-ed writer for Newsday in New York, and an obituarist for the Daily Telegraph in London.
Age of Sail: Non-Fiction
AOS Naval Non-Fiction |
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| HMS Pickle | The Swiftest Ship in Nelson's Trafalgar Fleet | |
| Nelson's Band of Brothers | Lives and Memorials | |
Modern Era: Non-Fiction
Modern Era Naval Non-Fiction |
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| Year | Book | Comment |
| Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, Socialist | One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, as well as a prominent RN figure | |
| Seapower Ashore | 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land | |
| The Habit of Victory | The Story of the Royal Navy 1545 to 1945 | |
| Battleships of World War II | An Illustrated History and Country-by-country Directory of Warships that Fought in the Second World War and Beyond, Including Battlecruisers and Pocket Battleships | |
| Sydney Cipher and Search | Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War | |
| The World Encyclopedia of Battleships and Cruisers | A Complete Illustrated History of International Naval Warships from 1860 to the Present Day Shown in Over 1200 Archive Photographs | |
| From Dreadnought to Daring | 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in the Naval Review | |
| Battleships | An illustrated history of battleships, their origins and evolution | |
| Henry Harwood | Hero of the River Plate | |
| Series: British Navy at War and Peace | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| Wingfield at War | Captain Mervyn Wingfield was a submariner who made his reputation in the Second World War | |
| Through Albert's Eyes | The autobiography of Tony Bentley-Buckle, a child of the Empire | |
| Enigma | The Untold Story of the Secret Capture | |