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 His official history for HMSO, the three volume The War at Sea presents a detailed history that is unlikely to be superseded, and this book sets out the broad outline of the policies, successes and failures of the British and Dominion navies in the worldwide struggle.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.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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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.