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“How to Grow Navy” Wins 2023 Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize

100 years of naval diving

21stC Ellis: operational art and strategic prophecy

75% death toll. A German submariner’s account.

A Carrier at Risk

A Ceaseless Watch; Australia’s Third-Party Naval Defense

A Game of Birds and Wolves: the Secret Game that Won...

A Hard Fought Ship. HMS Venomous

A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War

A Navy Admiral’s Bronze Rules: Managing Risk and Leadership

A parting shot — 1942

A shipyard at war 1914-1918

Abandon Ship – The real story of the sinkings in the...

Abandonment: Australian & the World since 1942

Accidental Admiral: a sailor takes command at NATO

ADM Rickover’s leadership principles

Admiral Albert Hastings Markham

Admiral VAT Smith. Extraordinary Life

After Jutland; The Naval War in Northern European Waters

After Jutland: The Naval War in Northern European Waters June 1916...

After the Lost Franklin Expedition; Lady Franklin and John Rae

Air Power in the Falklands Conflict

Airpower over Gallipoli 1915

Airpower reborn

All the Factors of Victory

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II

Allied Coastal Forces of World War II

Allied Maritime Strategy in the 21st Century

America’s first aircraft carrier

An A-4 Skyhawk Pilot in Vietnam

An airman’s war with the US Navy

An Australian Nuclear Industry: Starting with submarines?

An Illustrated History of the US Navy in Vietnam

An International Analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus

Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945-1975

Announcement of the 2022 Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize

Anti-Access Warfare: Countering A2/AD Strategies

Arctic Convoys 1941 – 1945

Arms for Russia and the Naval War in the Arctic 1941-1945

ASD: Revealing Secrets

Astute Class – Owner’s Workshop Manual

At War in Distant Waters: British Colonial Defense in the Great...

Atlantic Escorts – Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II

Attack on Sydney Harbour – June 1942

Australia, Menzies and Suez

Australia’s lost naval vessels

Australia’s Argonauts: RAN College’s first class

Australia’s Colonial Navies

Australia’s Defence: Towards a New Era?

Australia’s Intelligence Operations, 1901–45

Australia’s Naval Leaders, 1911-1997

Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of Empire in SE Asia

Australia’s Secret Army

Australian Code Breakers

Australian Submarines: A History

Austro Hungarian Battleships and Battleship Designs 1904 1914

Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the war patrols of U-402, 1941-3

Battle in the Baltic

Battleship Bismarck. A Design and Operational History

Battleship Commander; The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A Lee Jr

Battleship Duke of York

Battleship Warspite: Detailed in the Original Builders’ Plans

Bayly’s war. WWI anti-sub history

Before Jutland: naval war in northern Europe

Before the Ironclad: Warship Design and Development 1815-1860

Beyond the Beach: The Allied War against France

Big Gun Battles – Warship Duels of the Second World War

Bletchley Park’s Secret Source

Blockade: Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War...

BP Shipping Pictorial; The Golden Years 1945 – 1975

Bravo Zulu: Honours and Awards to Australian Naval People, Volume 1:...

Britain’s future navy

Britain’s Island Fortresses: Defence of the Empire 1756-1956

British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and Service Histories

British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII

British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII Vol 3

British and Commonwealth warship camouflage of WWII: Vol 2

British and German Battlecruisers

British Army of the Rhine 1945-1993

British Battlecruisers 1905-1920

British Battleships of the Victorian Era

British Coastal Forces

British Cruiser Warfare

British Cruisers of the Victorian Era

British Cruisers of the Victorian Era

British Destroyers and Frigates: The Second World War and After

British escort destroyers of WWII

British Fiji Class Cruisers and Their Derivatives

British Light Cruisers

British Light Cruisers

British Naval Gun Mountings from 1890

British Naval Intelligence Through the 20th Century

British Submarines in the Cold War Era

British Submarines In The Cold War Era

British Submarines in Two World Wars

British Town Class Cruisers

British Warship Losses in the Modern Era 1920-1982

British Warship Recognition Vol II

British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums. Volume III: Cruisers 1865-1939,...

British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums. Volume IV: Cruisers 1865-1939,...

By Derwent Divided

By more than providence: grand strategy and American power in the...

Carrier Aviation in the 21st Century

China as a Twenty-First Naval Power

China’s rise and the challenge to the US

China’s Vision of Victory

China’s Maritime Gray Zone Operations

Chinese Naval Shipbuilding: An Ambitious and Uncertain Course

Churchill and Fisher: Titans of the Admiralty

Churchill’s Arctic Convoys

Churchill’s Phoney War. A Study in Folly and Frustration

Churchill’s pirates: the Royal Naval Patrol Service in WW II.

CIA responds on detention and interrogation

Clark and the German Historians: Telling it ‘how it essentially was’?

Clash of Fleets: WWI naval battles

Clash of the Capital Ships; from the Yorkshire Raids to Jutland

Classics resurrected: ‘From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow’ and ‘Naval Policy...

Clydebank Battlecruisers. Forgotten Photography

Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner

Cold War Warriors: Royal Australia Air Force P-3 Orion Operations 1968-1991

Collins of the Sydney

Command Decisions; Langsdorff and the Battle of the River Plate

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

Commanding Petty Despots. The American Navy in the New Republic

Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won’t Map the Future

Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won’t Map the Future

Countering China’s Great Game

Cyclone Warriors. The ADF and Cyclone Tracy

Dairy of 18yo in the Falkland War

Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions

Dark Secrets – The True Story of Murder in HMAS Australia

Darwin: Australia’s own Pearl Harbour

Dead in the Water

Definitive account of RAN in World War I

Delivering Destruction; American Firepower and Amphibious Assault

Desperate Sunset: Japan’s Kamakazes

Destined for War. Can America and China escape Thucydides’s trap?

Diary of a wartime naval constructor

Dive the shipwrecks of Palau

Dive Truk Lagoon

Dive! Australian Submariners at War

Down to the Sea in Submarines

Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714

Eagles over the Sea. Luftwaffe’s marine ops

Earl Beatty: The Last Naval Hero

Endless Story: Destroyer Operations in the Great War

Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the US Navy

Fire at Sea: HMAS Westralia 1998

Fire on the Water: China, America and the Future of the...

First Victory 1914; HMAS Sydney’s Hunt for the German Raider Emden

Flagship: HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

Fleet Air Arm Carrier War

Flinders: Maritime Explorer of Australia

Flying Stations II. RAN’s Fleet Air Arm 1998-2022

Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea

Fortress Island Malta in WWII

Fortune Favors Boldness: The Story of Naval Valor during Operation Iraqi...

Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea

Fremantle’s submarines in World War II

French Armoured Cruisers 1887-1932

French Battleships of World War One

From Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of RN in War and Peace...

G’day Y’all; Whimsical wanderings and wonderings from Kentucky to Australia

General Naval Tactics. Theory and Practice

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home...

German Admiral who spied for Allies

German Battleship Helgoland plans

Girt by Sea

Glasgow Museums – The Ship Models

God and Sea Power: Religion and Alfred Thayer Mahan

Gorshkov: Man who challenged the US Navy

Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World

Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War

Great Powers, Grand Strategies: The New Game in the South China...

Gunboat command — initiative and courage

Guns Up, Depth Charges Readied

Guy Griffiths – The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral

Guy Griffiths – the Life and Times of an Australian Admiral

Guy Liddell: Cold War spymaster

Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists

Harrier 809. Britain’s legendary Jump Jet

Hazard Spectrum

Health and Morale in the RN, 1939-1945

Hearts of Steel

Heaven High Ocean Deep

Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-47

HMAS Sydney (II) in Peace and War

HMS Terror. The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship

How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second...

How the legions made Rome’s longevity

How the Navy won the 1914-1918 war

How to Grow a Navy

Hunters and Killers, Vol 1: Anti-Submarine Warfare from 1776 to 1943

Hunters and Killers, Vol 2: Anti-Submarine Warfare from 1943

Ian Fleming’s Inspiration. The Truth Behind the Books

Ikara: Australia’s Cold War Wonder Weapon

Implications for maritime trade – a NZ perspective

In All Respects Ready – Australia’s Navy in World War I

In the Treacle Mine; The Life of a Marine Engineer

India and China at Sea. Competition for Naval Dominance

Innovating Victory – Naval Technology in Three Wars

Intelligence and the State; Analysts and Decision Makers

International Order in Diversity: War, Trade and Rule of the Indian...

Interservice rivalry between RAF and RN 1909 – 1940

Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian...

Italian Assault Craft 1940-1945

Italian Heavy Cruisers From Trento to Bolzano

Japanese Admirals 1926-1945

Japanese Battleships 1897 – 1945: A Photographic Archive

John and Sebastian Cabot: the discovery of North America

Julian Corbett: The British Way of War

Jutland: Fresh Thought, Technology, Artefacts & Resonances

Jutland: The Unfinished Battle

Jutland: what the naval staff thought

Keeping the Peace of the Realm

Key writings of Dudley Knox USN

Kit Muster Vol 2

Know thy enemy: Naval intelligence in SE Asia

Land Based Air Power or Aircraft Carriers?

Large Scale Warship Models

Last Cruise of German Raider: Destruction of SMS Emden

Liberty Factory. Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipyards

Liberty’s Provenance

Like a Wicked Noah’s Ark – The Nautical School Ships Vernon...

Logistics in the Falklands War

Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front

Logistics: The Key to Victory

Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought

Mahan: The Man and His Letters

Major Fleet-versus-Fleet Operations in the Pacific War, 1941-1945

Malta – a Childhood Under Siege

Mao’s Army Goes to Sea

Marine Maxims: Turning Leadership Principles into Practice

Maritime Cooperation & Security in the Indo-Pacific

Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific

Maritime Strategy and Naval Policy for the Modern Era

Maritime Unmanned. From Global Hawk to Triton

Mars Adapting; Military Changes Under Fire

Mastering the Art of Command

McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power

Menacing peace with assassination

Miracle at the Litza: Hitler’s First Defeat on the Eastern Front

Models give better idea of ships

Modern Chinese Warplanes

Modern South Korean Air Power

Modern Taiwanese Air Power

Modern USMC Air Power

Monitors of the RN: How the Fleet Brought the Great Guns...

Mutineers – A true story of heroes and villains

Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

Naval Aviator. The Memoir of a Royal Navy Officer

Naval Battles of WWII; Pacific and Far East

Naval Blockades in Peace and War

Naval Combat at Night 1904 – 1945

Naval Competition and Great Power Politics, 1904 – 1914

Naval Intelligence History

Naval Minewarfare

Naval Minewarfare. Politics to Practicalities

Naval Officers under Hitler

Naval Power: An Offensive Realist Approach

Naval Warfare. A Global History Since 1860

Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies

Navies in the 21st Century

Navigating Asia’s troubled waters

Nelson at war, 1914-19: the History of the Nelson Battalion of...

Nelson’s Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials

Nelson’s Mediterranean Command

New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle

Norman Friedman’s British Destroyers

On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations

On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle

Onboard HMAS Australia — a boy’s recollections

Operation Eldorado Canyon

Operation Neptune. Naval Operations for Normandy

Operation STABILISE in Timor revisited

Part of the war of ideas on the Great War

Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy

Pepys’s navy: ships, men, and warfare

Perkins’s British Warship Recognition

Phillips a scapegoat for 1941 ship loss

Plans of Aircraft Carrier Victorious

Plaster the Ship with Paint – Dazzle & Deception

Presentation of the ANI 2022 Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize

Project Rainfall

Putting Cargoes Through

Questioning the Carrier

Radio Girl. Wartime Legend

RAF Bomber Command Striking Back; Operations of a Halifax Crew

Rain of Steel – Mitscher’s Task Force 58

RAN in Vietnam

Rearming the RAF for Second World War

Recovering Naval Power

Red Dragon ‘Flankers’

Red Lead – The Naval Cat with Nine Lives

Red Star Over the Pacific

Rescue from Saigon: the Lucky Few

Review: Two Days in Your Life

Riddle of the Sands

Right Man, Right Place, Worst Time

RN and fishery protection C14th to present

RN and USN at war in the Middle East

RN should have had greater WWI role

Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam

Rome: trade outweighs military conquest

Room for Mistakes: Submarine Warfare 1939-1940.

Rosy Wemyss. Admiral of the Fleet

Rough Waters: Sovereignty and the American Merchant Flag

Royal Naval Air Service in WWI: Aircraft and Events as in...

Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels 1870-1914

Running a Big Ship

Running Deep

Sailing North: Voyages of Character

Salt Horse: Memoir of a Maverick Admiral

Saltwater Leadership: A Primer on Leadership for the Sea Services.

Sea Power and the American Interest

Sea power in the 21st century

Seaforth Naval Review 2022

Seaforth World Naval Review 2017

Seapower in the Post-Modern World

Securing the Narrow Sea: The Dover Patrol 1914-1918

Seven at Santa Cruz: The Life of Stanley ‘Swede’ Vejtasa

Ships for all nations: John Brown and Company Clydebank 1847-1971

Ships of the Royal Navy

Shipwrecks of the Dover Straits

Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines

Six Victories: convoy war in the Med

Skagerrak: the Battle of Jutland through German eyes

Sleepwalk to War; Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America

Sliding-door moments: ANZUS and Blue Pacific

Small Wars and their Influence on Nation States

Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World...

Spoils of War: Fate of Enemy Fleets

Steam Yachts at War

Strategy Shelved; The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning

Strike from the Sea. Cruise missile history

Submarine Support in Sydney 1914 to 1999

Super Destroyers

Supremacy at Sea

Sustaining the carrier war

T.E. Lawrence: RN’s role in creating the legend

Take These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats

Taranto; and Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940-1945

TARRA: The story of an Army Small Ship

Teddy Sheean a Tasmanian Hero . . . and other Brave...

Teddy Sheean VC – A Selfless Act of Valour

Teddy Sheean VC, A Selfless Act of Valour

Teddy. Roosevelt biography

The Admiralty and the Helicopter

The Air War at Sea in World War II

The art of leadership – the USN and World War II

The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics

The Avoidable War; The Dangers of a Catastrophic US-China Conflict

The Baltic Cauldron

The Battlecruiser New Zealand: A Gift to Empire

The Battleship Builders – Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

The Big Cruiser in the World’s Navies 1865-1910

The Boy Airman: An Absolute Stranger to Fear

The bringers of war to Africa

The British Battleship 1906-1946

The British Carrier Strike Fleet after 1945

The British Carrier Strike Fleet After 1945

The British Carrier Strike Fleet After 1945

The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson’s Fleet

The Conversion of Naval Vessels after Two World Wars

The Curious Case of Dr Ian Macdonald

The Dawn of Carrier Strike

The Decline of European Naval Forces

The Development of Crude Oil Tankers

The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean 1942 – 1944; The...

The Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Truth

The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare 1898 – 1945

The Fabulous Flotilla

The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe

The French Fleet Ships, Strategy and Operations 1870-1918

The German naval flank of the Western Front

The German Navy in the First World War

The Great Edwardian Naval Feud

The Great War At Sea: A Naval Atlas 1914–1919

The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail

The Grey Wolves of Eriboll

The Harwich Striking Force

The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans

The Hood Battalion 1914-18

The inside story of Britain’s drone wars

The Jutland Scandal: the Truth about WWI’s greatest sea battle

The Kaiser’s Cruisers 1871 – 1918.

The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet

The last of Africa’s Cold War conflicts

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough

The Life of the Third Reich’s Highest Scoring U-boat Commander

The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea 1939-1945

The Magnetism of Antarctica

The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz

The Naval Mutinies of 1798

The Navy Chiefs – Australian Navy Leaders 1911-1997

The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea...

The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific

The New Makers of Modern Strategy

The Odd Couple: the Australia-America Relationship

The Other Norfolk Admirals

The Pacific Fleet: RN’s Most Powerful Strike Force

The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Diplomats

The Petrol Navy 1914-1920

The Power and the Glory – Royal Navy Fleet reviews

The Rescue Ships and The Convoys

The Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Britain

The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters

The Royal Navy in the Cold War years

The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Age

The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916

The Royal Navy’s Air Service In the Great War

The Russian Baltic Fleet in the Time of War and Revolution

The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models

The Sailor’s Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea

The Scrap Iron Flotilla

The Sea in Russian Strategy

The Secret History of the Five Eyes

The Secret War Against Red Russia

The Siege of Tsingtau. Germany v Japan in WWI

The Sinking of HMAS Sydney

The Skyhawk Years

The Spanish Civil War at Sea

The Squadrons and Units of the Fleet Air Arm

The Steep Atlantick Stream

The story of HMAS Brisbane — the Steel Cat

The Thief Fleet and A Wilful Woman

The U-Boat Commanders

The US Naval Institute on Naval Strategy

The War for Ukraine

The Wars for Asia — an Asian perspective

The Windfall Battleships – Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle

The Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids, 1918

This is No Drill: The History of NAS Pearl Harbor and...

Through the Eyes of Albert RN

To Rule Eurasia’s Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea

Torpedo Boats and Coastal Forces 1876-1939

Treaty Cruisers

Tribals, Battle and Darings. The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer

Two Navies Divided. RN and US Navy in WWII

U-Boat Assault on America

U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch

U-boats were sitting ducks in WWII

Uncommon Courage; The Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War 2

Understanding Naval Warfare

Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles

US Aircraft Carriers. An Illustrated Design History.

US Navy Attack Aircraft 1920-2020

US post Cold War naval thinking

US Submarines since 1945

V & W Destroyers: A Developmental History

Very Special Ships: Abdiel Class Fast Minelayers of WWII

Victory Without Peace

Voices from Jutland: A Centenary Commemoration

Voices in Flight: the Heavy Bomber Experience of WWII

Voices in Flight: The Royal Naval Air Service During the Great...

War Transformed. The Future of 21st Century Great Power Competition and...

Warship Builders: U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 1922–1945

Warship Design Since 1945

Warships after London

Warships of the Great War era

Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945

Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945 Vol 2

Wartime Standard Ships

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815

What Happened to the Battleship. 1945 to the present

What Ship? Where Bound?

White Sun War; The Campaign for Taiwan

Wings for the Fleet: naval aviation’s development 1910-1916

Winner of the 2021 ANI Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize

Winning of wars to come

Wooden Warship Construction: a History in Ship Models

Word of Honour. Historical novel

World Naval Review

WWI — what happened at home

WWII British Warships:: Detailed in the original builders’ plans

Wyatt Earp – The little ship with many names

Yangtze Showdown: China and the Ordeal of HMS Amethyst

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