An enthralling and detailed history of the Mitsubishi Zero, an aircraft that was both feared and revered during the course of its operational history at the vanguard of Japanese military engineering.
A comprehensive history of the Kamikaze tradition in Japanese culture. Explores the philosophy of an 'honourable death', and the manner in which this was achieved by scores of Japanese pilots under or
This is the story of the Royal Navy battle-cruiser HMS Renown, a famous ship with a long and distinguished operational career. Originally built for the First World War she subsequently served in the p
During 1940 Churchill and the War Cabinet regarded safe passage for British ships in the Mediterranean Sea to be of paramount importance. Despite the catastrophic evacuation of the British Expeditiona
The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy’s desire for a carrier-bas
This is the story of the 20th Minelaying Flotilla in WW1 and WW2. During the early years of WW1 the existing minelaying vessels in service with the Royal Navy were found to be far too slow to penetrat
