ME Naval Non-Fiction - General Book List

General Non-Fiction books about the Navies of the world in the Modern Era

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• Alan Schom
  • The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943
• Angus Konstam
  • Big Guns in the Atlantic: Germany’s battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939–41
  • The British Sailor of the Second World War
  • The Convoy HG-76: Taking the Fight to Hitler's U-boats
• Bernard Edwards
  • Attack & Sink: The Battle of the Atlantic Summer 1941
  • Blood and Bushido: Japanese Atrocities at Sea 1941-45
  • Death in Deep Waters: Hitler's U-boat Menace
  • Death in the Doldrums: U Cruisers Off West Africa
  • Donitz and the Wolf Packs: The U-Boats at War
  • From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat War in the Atlantic 1939–1943
  • Japan's Blitzkrieg: The Allied Collapse in the East 1941-42
  • Salvo!: Classic Naval Gun Actions
  • The Cruel Sea Retold: The Truth Behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama
  • The Decoys: A Tale of Three Atlantic Convoys 1942
  • The Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seaman at War
  • The Road to Russia: Arctic Convoys 1942
  • The Twilight of the U-Boats
  • The Wolf Packs Gather: Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940
  • U-Boats Beyond Biscay: Dönitz Looks to New Horizons
  • War of the U-Boats: British Merchantmen Under Fire
  • War Under the Red Ensign 1914-1918
• Brian Lavery
  • Able Seamen: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 1850-1939
  • All Hands: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy Since 1939
  • Shield of Empire: The Royal Navy in Scotland
  • Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War
• Bruce Taylor
  • U-Boat Attack Logs: A Complete Record of Warship Sinkings from Original Sources 1939-1945
• Bryan Perrett
  • Gunboat!: Small Ships at War
  • North Sea Battleground: The War at Sea 1914-1918
  • The Hunters and the Hunted: The Elimination of German Surface Warships Around the World 1914-15
• Buckner F. Melton
  • Sea Cobra: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon
• C.J. Skamarakas
  • The Devil Boats: A U.S. Navy PT Squadron in Action in World War II
• Carlos Alfaro-Zaforteza, Marcus Faulkner & Alan James
  • European Navies and the Conduct of War
• Christopher M. Bell
  • The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars
• Christopher M. Bell & Bruce Allen Elleman (Editors)
  • Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective
• Christopher M. Bell & John H Maurer (Editors)
  • At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference in 1930
• Craig L. Symonds
  • World War II at Sea: A Global History
• Daniel Owen Spence
  • Colonial Naval Culture and British Imperialism, 1922-67
• David Boyle
  • Unheard, Unseen: Warfare in the the Dardanelles
• David Hayes
  • Battle in the Baltic: The Royal Navy and the Fight to Save Estonia & Latvia, 1918–1920
  • Bayly's War: The Battle for the Western Approaches in the First World War
  • Blockade: Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War One
  • Formidable: A True Story of Disaster and Courage
  • Securing the Narrow Sea: The Dover Patrol, 1914–1918
  • Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World War One
  • Steam Yachts at War: The Naval Deployment of British & American Yachts, 1898–1918
  • The Harwich Striking Force: The Royal Navy's Front Line in the North Sea 1914–1918
  • The Longest Battle: The Royal Canadian Navy in the Atlantic 1939-1945
  • The Petrol Navy: British, American and Other Naval Motor Boats at War 1914 – 1920
  • The Power and the Glory: Royal Navy Fleet Reviews from Earliest Times to 2005
• David Hobbs
  • A Century of Carrier Aviation
  • The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force
  • The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945
  • The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War
• David K. Brown
  • Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II
• David K. Brown & George Moore
  • Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945
• David Stevens
  • In All Respects Ready: Australia's Navy in World War One
  • U-Boat Far From Home: The Epic Voyage of the U-862 to Australia and New Zealand
• David Stevens (Editor)
  • The Royal Australian Navy in World War II
• Dudley Pope
  • Flag 4: The Battle of Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean 1939-1945
• Duncan Redford
  • A History of the Royal Navy: World War II
  • Maritime History and Identity: The Sea and Culture in the Modern World
  • The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat
• Duncan Redford & Philip D. Grove
  • The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900
• E. Keble Chatterton
  • The Big Blockade
• Earl A McCandlish (George D. Jepson Editor)
  • Crash Boat: Wartime Missions of the P-399, Guadalcanal to the Philippines
• Edward Hampshire
  • The Falklands Naval Campaign 1982
  • The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966–1990: Retreat and Revival
• Edward P. Stafford
  • The Far and the Deep: The Submarine from U-Boat to Polaris
• Edwin P. Hoyt
  • Carrier Wars: Naval Aviation from World War II to the Persian Gulf
  • Deadly Craft: Fire Ships to Pt Boats
  • Defeat at the Falklands: Germany's East Asia Squadron 1914
  • Ghost of the Atlantic: The Kronprinz Wilhelm, 1914-19
  • How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals
  • MacArthur's Navy: The Seventh Fleet and the Battle for the Phillipines
  • Now Hear This: The Story of American Sailors in World War II
  • Raider 16
  • Raider Wolf: The voyage of Captain Nerger, 1916-1918
  • Submarines at War
  • The Carrier War
  • The Death of the U-Boats
  • The Glorious Flattops
  • The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
  • The Karlsruhe Affair
  • The Lonely Ships: The Life and Death of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet
  • The Phantom Raider: The True Story of the Moewe in World War I
  • The Sea Wolves: Germany's Dreaded U-Boats of WW II
  • The U-Boat Wars
  • To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific 1944
  • U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America
  • War in the Deep: Pacific Submarine Action in World War II
• Evan Thomas
  • Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
• Gary Staff
  • Battle of the Baltic Islands 1917: Triumph of the Imperial German Navy
  • Battle on the Seven Seas: German Cruiser Battles 1914-1918
• Geirr H. Haarr
  • No Room for Mistakes: British and Allied Submarine Warfare 1939–1940
  • The Battle for Norway: April - June 1940
  • The Gathering Storm: The Naval War in Northern Europe September 1939 - April 1940
  • The German Invasion of Norway: April 1940
• Geoffrey Bennett
  • Freeing the Baltic, 1918–1920
  • Naval Battles of the First World War
  • Naval Battles of World War Two
• Geoffrey Till
  • Asia's Naval Expansion: An Arms Race in the Making
  • How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power
  • Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
  • Understanding Victory: Naval Operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands
• Glyn Prysor
  • Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War
• Hector Bywater
  • Cruisers in Battle: Naval 'Light Cavalry' Under Fire 1914-1918
• Iain Ballantyne
  • Hunter Killers
  • Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
  • Strike from the Sea: The Royal Navy & United States Navy at War in the Middle East 1949-2003
  • The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present
• Ian Johnston
  • A Shipyard at War: Unseen Photographs from John Brown's Clydebank 1914 - 1918
  • Ships for All Nations: John Brown & Company Clydebank 1847-1971
• Ian W. Toll
  • Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1943
  • The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands 1942–1944
  • Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific 1944–1945
• Jak P Mallman Showell
  • Hitler's 'Wonder' U-Boats: The Birth of the Cold War's Hunter Killer Submarines
  • Swastikas in the Arctic: U-boat Alley Through the Frozen Hell
• Jean Hood
  • Carrier: A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations in War and Peace
  • Submarine: An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts of the War Under the Sea 1939-45
• Jo Stanley
  • A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy
• John D. Grainger
  • Britain Enforcing the Peace, 1918–1923: The Royal Navy in Turkey and Southern Russia after the Great War
• John Davies
  • Lower Deck: Life Aboard a British Destroyer in World War II
• John Frayn Turner
  • Fight for the Sea: Naval Adventures from the Second World War
  • Periscope Patrol: The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines
  • Service Most Silent: The Navy's Fight Against Enemy Mines
• John S. Margerison
  • Our Wonderful Navy
• John Winton
  • Air Power at Sea, 1939-45
  • Air Power at Sea, 1945-1989
  • Below the Belt: Novelty, Subterfuge and Surprise in Naval Warfare
  • Captains and Kings: The Royal Family and the Royal Navy, 1901-1981
  • Convoy: The Defence of Sea Trade, 1890-1990
  • Find, Fix and Strike!: The Fleet Air Arm at War, 1939-45
  • Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor!: Life on the Lower-deck of the Victorian Navy
  • The Forgotten Fleet: The Story of the British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45
  • The Submariners: Life in British Submarines, 1901-1999
  • The Victoria Cross at Sea: The Sailors, Marines and Airmen Awarded Britain's Highest Honour
  • War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
• Jonathan Coad
  • Support for the Fleet: Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy's Bases 1700-1914
  • The Portsmouth Block Mills: Bentham, Brunel and the Start of the Royal Navy's Industrial Revolution
• Keith Warren Lloyd
  • Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America's Battleships in the Pacific War
  • Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal
• Kevin Brown
  • Fittest of the Fit: Health and Morale in the Royal Navy, 1939-1945
• Lawrence Sondhaus
  • German Submarine Warfare in World War I: The Onset of Total War at Sea
  • Naval Warfare 1815-1914
  • Navies of Europe
  • The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War
• Leighton Harding
  • Tirpitz Nemesis: A short history of the X craft Midget Submarines
• Marcus Faulkner
  • The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1914-1919
  • War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1939-1945
• Mark Lardas
  • The Capture of U-505: The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944
  • US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941: America's mighty last battleship fleet
• Mark Stille
  • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War
  • The Influence of British Operational Intelligence on the War at Sea in the Mediterranean June 1940 - November 1942
• Mike Farquharson-Roberts
  • A History of the Royal Navy: World War I
  • Royal Naval Officers from War to War, 1918-1939
• Nicholas Tracy
  • A Two-Edged Sword: The Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy
• Nick Hewitt
  • Coastal Convoys 1939-1945: The Indestructible Highway
  • The Kaiser's Pirates: Hunting Germany's Raiding Cruisers 1914-1915
• Norman Friedman
  • Fighters Over the Fleet: Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War
  • Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology
• Peter C. Smith
  • Critical Conflict: The Royal Navy's Mediterranean Campaign in 1940
  • Into the Minefields: British Destroyer Minelaying 1916-1960
  • Naval Warfare in the English Channel 1939-1945
  • Pedestal: The Convoy That Saved Malta
• Peter Hore
  • The Habit of Victory: The Story of the Royal Navy 1545 to 1945
• Peter Hore (editor)
  • From Dreadnought to Daring: 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in the Naval Review
  • Seapower Ashore: 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land
• Peter Padfield
  • Battleship
  • Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1852-2001
  • Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy
  • The Great Naval Race: Anglo-German Naval Rivalry 1900-1914
  • War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II
• Philip Kaplan
  • Grey Wolves: The U-Boat War 1939-1945
  • Merchant Sailors at War 1943-1945: Beating the U-Boat
  • Silent Service: The Submarine Mission
  • The Bird Farm: Carrier Aviation and Naval Aviators
  • U-Boat Prey: Merchant Sailors at War 1939-1942
• Quintin Colville
  • The British Sailor of the First World War
• Randall Peffer
  • Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat
• Richard Freeman
  • A Close Run Thing: The Navy and the Falklands War
  • Great Naval Commanders Of The First World War
  • The Great Edwardian Naval Feud: Beresford's Vendetta Against 'Jackie' Fisher
  • Torpedo Terror: 1914-18 U-boat War
• Richard Hough
  • The Fleet That Had to Die
• Richard Woodman
  • Arctic Convoys: 1941-1945
  • Malta Convoys: 1940-1943
• Roger Paine
  • Clear Lower Deck: A Collection of My Naval Yarns
• Terence Robertson
  • Channel Dash: The Drama of Twenty Four Hours of War
  • The Ship With Two Captains: The Story of the "Secret Mission Submarine"
• Tim Clayton
  • Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines
• Warren Tute
  • The True Glory: The Story of the Royal Navy over a Thousand Years