Seaforth Publishing

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage, applied to both the vertical and horizontal surfaces of their ships, in order to reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying obtrusive patters. In this volume by maritime artist (...)

In stark contrast to the rather modest performance of its large surface fleet in the Second World War, the Italian Navy's smallest units achieved its most spectacular successes. It made a speciality of unconventional methods of attack - explosive motor boats, human torpedoes and miniature (...)

The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over (...)

Through a series of novelistic biographies that showcase the pivotal roles and actions of those involved, dive into a centuries-long fight for survival for the Han empire that resulted in a golden age for China.The Han-Xiongnu War (133 BC AD 89) pitted the Han dynasty of China against a (...)

For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships and looks at wider issues of significance to navies (...)