Arctic Victory: Story of Convoy PQ18

History

PETER C. SMITH

Military

New English Library Ltd.

Hit first, hit hard: The story of HMS Renown, 1916-48

Kimber

Undesirable Properties: Thirteen Haunted Houses

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

<li>Authoritative study of the battleship in World War II</li>
<li>Stirring episodes of naval combat</li>
<li>Covers the famous chase after the Bismarck, the sinking of the Scharnhorst, the coastal bombardments on D-Day, and other actionsAlthough naval development before World War II focused on aircraft carriers, the British nevertheless had seventy battleships--larger and more powerful than ever before--under construction at the outbreak of the war. Indeed, one of the Allies' first successes came in December 1939 when British ships hunted down and successfully engaged the German Graf Spee off the coast of South America. The war would hasten the battleship's decline, but not before producing dramatic moments at sea.
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The Great Ships: British Battleships in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series)

Europe

Stackpole Books

London's pageantry

Colourmaster International

Peter Smith writes what is probably the best book available on the British battleship, and by extension, the battleship in general.

The Great Ships Pass: British Battleships at War 1939-1945

Naval_Institute_Press

The Battles of the Malta Striking Forces (Sea Battles in Close-up, 11) by Peter C. Smith and Edwin Walker. 1974 hardcover published by the Naval Institute Press. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps.

The Battles of the Malta Striking Forces (Sea Battles in Close-up, 11)

Walker, Edwin

For many, it is a dive bomber that conjures the most dramatic, quintessential image of World War II: a screaming German Stuka hurtling toward the ground as part of the frightening blitzkrieg that opened the war. In this illustrated history of dive bombers from around the world, Peter C. Smith takes the reader from the earliest experiments in 1910, through the planes first operations, to their eventual emergence as effective tools of aerial warfare during World War II. With its large number of photographs, diagrams, and tables, this book presents a fascinating and authoritative piece of aviation history.

Dive Bomber

Eagles War

Crecy Publishing Limited

Formed in 1944 the British Pacific Fleet was to fight alongside the Americans and so was given an American codename - Task Force 57. But the Pacific theatre was unlike anything the British had experienced before. Surface action was rare and major engagements were fought at ranges of 200 miles. The veterans of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Sea had to start again and from the air faced a new deadly enemy - the Kamikaze. Although overshadowed in numbers by the vast American task forces, Task Force 57 made a decisive contribution to victory in the Far East. Peter Smith's volume was the first to fully recount their story and still remains a definitive account of this 'forgotten fleet'.

Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45

Crecy Publishing

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