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The battleship reigned supreme at sea from the 1860s to the 1940s, the ultimate symbol of naval power and national pride, queen on the naval chessboard.As a result, strategy and battle tactics changed in response to the mounting of ever larger guns with greater range and penetrative power, and the development of threatening new weapon systems, particularly torpedoes, torpedo boats, mines and submarines. The author also explores the chilling re...

¿¿¿The first book to cover the major submarine campaigns in all the WWII theatres.The canvas is broad and deep, from the strategic perspective at the top to the cramped and claustrophobic life of the crews in their submersible steel tubes, from the feats of 'ace' commanders to the terrifying experiences of men under attack in this most pitiless form of warfare.War Beneath the Sea describes the technical and tactical measures by which the Weste...

The definitive account of one of the most turbulent-and crucial-chapters of World War II

More than the story of the intense battleship-building competition between Great Britain and Imperial Germany before the First World War, this is a study in envy: Kaiser Wilhelm II, grandson of Queen Victoria, reflected Prusso-German resentment at Britain's world power, and longed for a fleet to rival the Royal Navy. It is a fact, disgracefully unrecognised by the historical establishment, that his admiral, Alfred Tirpitz, designed the German ...

It is hard today to envisage the era when the Royal Navy ruled the seas, its cruisers and gunboats policing Britain's worldwide empire and trade, its battlefleet providing the force behind Britain's global power. It was a legendary service carrying an aura of invincibility from its victorious history culminating in Trafalgar even as its ships changed out of all recognition in response to the industrial age, Nelson's 'wooden walls' giving way t...

A highly entertaining record of adventure on the 'Magic Carpet' of the oceans. 'If Peter Padfield never again steps aboard anything less than 30, 000 tons he has had his fun and, furthermore, passed it on for others to enjoy.' Yachting Monthly 'The author gives a vivid impression of the sea in all its moods and of the men who made up his various ships' companies.' Daily Telegraph The book opens with an account of a life-changing voyage Peter P...

This is the first book to cover all submarine and anti-submarine operations of the major powers, U.S., British, German, Japanese and Italian in the Second World War. The canvas is broad and deep, from the strategic perspective at the top to the cramped and claustrophobic life of the crews in their submersible steel tubes, from the feats of 'ace' commanders to the terrifying experiences of men under attack in this most pitiless form of warfare....

Giving rein at last to his excellent narrative gifts, Mr Padfield has his readers thoroughly involved.' The Mariner's Mirror This novel by one of Britain's leading naval historians introduces Lieutenant Guy Greville, intelligence officer of Her Majesty's corvette Dulcinea off east Africa in the final decade of the nineteenth century. The Royal Navy is attempting to end the trade in Africans driven across the continent and shipped from the east...

A bright new star rises on the ocean waves.' Sunday Telegraph Lieutenant Guy Greville of HMS Dulcinea and the corvette's diehard sailing captain, the Earl of Saxmundham, who cannot abide engines or engineers, were last met off East Africa in The Lion's Claw. Here they sail into a deeper mystery: arriving in Bombay, commercial capital of British India in the 1890s, they learn that one of the ships on the station, HMS Curlew, has disappeared wit...

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A grimly compelling study of Hitler's SS and Gestapo chief who masterminded the attempted extermination of the Jewish race in Europe. Peter Padfield explores Himmler's mind through his diaries, letters, ordinances and speeches, and suggests that the roots of his sadistic career lay in his appearance and physique which fell far below that of the 'Aryan' warrior idealized by the Nazis, his complementary fantasies of being hard and ruthless were ...

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A roistering war novel.' Daily Telegraph This is the third novel featuring the young naval officer, Guy Greville, met previously in The Lion's Claw and The Unquiet Gods. Now first lieutenant of Her Majesty's second-class cruiser Cressida, Greville arrives in Durban in September 1899 as tensions between the British administration of southern Africa and the independent Afrikaner, or Boer, republics of the Orange Free State and Transvaal reach br...

Has the authentic tang of the sea, salty, sharp, refreshing.' Yorkshire Post 'Viewing Trafalgar as the fitting finale to twelve years of hard fighting at sea, Peter Padfield selects and fights over again six crucial battles fought under four great admirals, Howe, Jervis, Duncan and Nelson, and shows them to be a series of battles in one outstanding war, which is quite rightly regarded as Nelson's.' Daily Telegraph 'Clear, authoritative, readab...

Fresh and valuable... Mr Padfield knows what he is writing about...with a knowledge and devotion displayed by no previous writer.' Times Literary Supplement 'This is not just another book on the Titanic but a fascinating revelation.' Birmingham Post 'The fascination of a closely reasoned detective story, and every landlubber should be able to follow it.' Daily Telegraph 'The story compels.' The Times 'An angry, exciting, vivid book. It may sha...

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