Philip Kaplan was born in California and is a former art director of the American magazine Playboy. In the 1980s he started working for himself with an idea for a book about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who served in England during the war and spent a lot of time interviewing veterans. The book, One Last Look, sold up to 90,000 copies and he became more interested in doing more books about the war. He moved to Cheltenham, UK after meeting his wife.
Modern Era Naval Non-Fiction |
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| Series: Images of War | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| Merchant Sailors at War 1943-1945 | Beating the U-Boat - The story of Corvettes | |
| Battleships: The First Big Guns | The battleships that saw development and deployment during the WWI | |
| Battleships: WW II Evolution of the Big Guns | Battleship construction in the 1930s and 1940s | |
| World War Two at Sea: The Last Battleships | The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power | |
| U-Boat Prey | Merchant Sailors at War 1939-1942 | |
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| Year | Book | Comment |
| Grey Wolves | The U-Boat War 1939-1945 | |
| The Bird Farm | Carrier Aviation and Naval Aviators | |
| Silent Service | The Submarine Mission | |