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Naval postcards, naval books and naval
gifts including ship models of battleships, aircraft carriers and
cruisers, will be available to purchase shortly from Cranston Fine Arts. |
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The Navy At War
1939-1945 by Stephen Roskill
Captain Roskill has long been recognised as the leading authority on
the Royal Navy's part in the Second World War. His official history for
HMSO, the three volume The War at Sea presents a detailed history that is
unlikely to be superseded, and this book sets out the broad outline of the
policies, successes and failures of the British and Dominion navies in the
worldwide struggle.
The author writes with the same simplicity and ease whether he is
describing the movement of ships in a single action or the relation of a
whole campaign to the strategy of total war. The narrative is thrilling
and the analysis clear: Roskill describes the major sea battles such as
the River Plate and Matapan as well as the characteristic convoy actions
of the Battle of the Atlantic, Murmansk and Malta. He covers the
contribution made by British technology in the shape of Asdic and Radar
but the story is, above all, about the courage and skill of the officers
and men who made the victory possible.
Book serial number W49. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 480 pages. |
Post: UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books
£6.00).
For Europe £3.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £6.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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One of Our
Submarines by Edward Young
"In the very highest rank of books about the last war.
Submarines are thrilling beats, and Edward Young tells of four years'
adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He
writes beautifully, economically and with humour, and in the actions he
commands he manages to put the reader at the voice-pipe and the periscope
so that sometimes the tension is so great that one has to put the book
down." The Sunday Times
Commander Edward Young DSO DSC RNV(S)R started the war as an amateur
yachtsman and finished it as a highly decorated submarine commander -
indeed, he was the first RNVR officer to hold independent command of a
warship.
Book serial number W41. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 320 pages. |
Post: UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books
£6.00).
For Europe £3.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £6.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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Full range of naval books can be seen at our bookshop
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Armada! by Robert
Milne-Tyte
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was the greatest feat of
English arms since the Battle of Agincourt a century and a half earlier.
The poorly planned expedition with its huge galleons was ordered to join
with the Spanish army in the Netherlands for an invasion of Queen Elizabeth
I's Protestant England. But the Spaniards found that the English had
radically changed the rules of sea warfare, with a new breed of warship
employing newly-devised techniques of gunnery which thwarted the Armada as
it fought its way up the Channel.
This book records in detail Spain's extensive preparations for the
invasion and the counter-moves of the English; the Armada's battles,
and the fearful aftermath with barely half the Spanish fleet managing to
struggle home.
Book serial number W44. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 160 pages. |
Post: UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books
£6.00).
For Europe £3.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £6.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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Midway: The
Incredible Victory by Walter Lord
They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so changed the
course of the war. More than that, they added a new name - Midway - to
that small list that inspires men by example - Marathon, the Marne, the
Somme and Rorke's Drift. Even against the greatest odds there is something
in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith and valour that can
lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
As Winston Churchill wrote, 'This memorable American victory was of
cardinal importance, not only to the United States, but to the whole
Allied cause ... At one stroke, the dominant position of Japan in the
Pacific was reversed ... The annals of war at sea present no more intense,
heart-shaking shock ... the qualities of the united States Navy and Air
Force and the American race shone forth in splendour.'
Book serial number W1. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 220 pages. |
Post: UK- £2.50 (max post for multiple books
£6.00).
For Europe £3.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £6.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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CRANSTON FINE ART CATALOGUES
Cranston produce eight Book Catalogues showing their full range of over
2000 military, naval and aviation images. You can order these books from this
site.
VOLUME ONE BOOK CATALOGUE, Showing over 200 military images plus text on
the Victorian British artists, (Butler, Beadle, Woodville, Wollen, and
Barker and many others) main subjects, Classic British Colonial,
Napoleonic and Crimean. Price £7
VOLUME TWO. Showing over 140 colour images plus information of the great
French Artist (Meissonier, Detaille, de Neuville and others). Periods
covered: Napoleonic, Franco Prussian, American Civil war and a mixture of
others. Price £7
VOLUME THREE Showing over 200 images, from Ancient, Napoleonic, Modern,
WW1, WW2, and a mixture of other periods, including Aviation, and Naval
subjects. Price £7
VOLUME FOUR showing over 120 images plus a cross reference by Period and
artist of the first four catalogues. Periods covered: Ancient, WW2, and
Naval items of Napoleon and mixture of other subjects. Price £5.00
VOLUME FIVE Showing 180 images mostly modern and World War Two, including
Naval and Aviation. Price £7.00
VOLUME SIX Showing over 200 images from all periods. Price £7.00. Mix
from ancient to the Gulf War.
VOLUME SEVEN With over 200 images and full print listing by artist
price £7. Mainly consisting of aviation, naval, and modern military after
1940 and a selection of fifty historical prints of earlier periods.
VOLUME EIGHT Available August 2000. Showing the next 140
images, price £5.
Post; please add £3 per order for overseas orders
for recorded fee plus 50 pence per catalogue for Europe and £1 per catalogue for the rest of
the world. |
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