New Imports

20TH CENTURY PASSENGER FLYING BOATS By Leslie Dawson

This extended pictorial edition provides a fast-moving journey from the first pioneers to the very last use of such craft in regions still reliant on waterborne communication with the outside world from the Americas and the United Kingdom, to France, Germany and Italy, and on to Australia and New Zealand.

May 2021 | 128 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ 136 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52674-420-3

$37.95 | Holiday Price: $18.98

THE 50 GREATEST SHIPWRECKS By Richard M. Jones

Historian Richard M. Jones recountsfifty stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous, and in some cases tragic ships in the whole of history. November 2021 | 168 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 32 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39900-800-6

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ANSON’S NAVY

BUILDING A FLEET FOR EMPIRE 1744–1763

By Brian Lavery

Using a mass of archival evidence and a mix of official reports and personal reminiscences, Lavery offers a fascinating and engrossing analysis of all these far-reaching reforms, which in turn led to the radical transformation of Britain’s navy into a truly global force. November 2021 | 288 pp. | 9½ x 11¹⁄₃ 125 b/w & color illustrations & maps Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39900-288-2

$70.00 | Holiday Price: $35.00

ATLANTIC LINCHPIN

THE AZORES IN TWO WORLD WARS

By Guy Warner

The significance of the Azores has been overlooked in most military histories, but this extensively researched and copiously illustrated book from historian Guy Warner provides a detailed but balanced appraisal. August 2021 | 192 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ 200 b/w photographs Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39901-093-1

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DRONE WAR VIETNAM By David Axe

Drone War Vietnam is based on military records, official histories and published first-hand accounts from early drone operators, as well as on a close survey of existing scholarship on the topic. September 2021 | 232 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ 106 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52677-026-4

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FAVOURITE OF FORTUNE

CAPTAIN JOHN QUILLIAM, TRAFALGAR HERO

By Andrew Lambert

Born on the Isle of Man two hundred fifty years ago, Captain John Quilliam has, until now, evaded detailed study of his extraordinary life. August 2021 | 256 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 16 color and 15 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39901-270-6

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BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF

THE LARGEST SEA BATTLE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

By John Grehan

In Battle of Leyte Gulf, the actions of the warships as well as the accompanying amphibious landings on Leyte by the U.S. Sixth Army are vividly revealed through a dramatic collection of photographs depicting the ships, sailors, airmen and soldiers who made history. July 2021 | 216 pp. | 7½ x 9¾ 150 b/w illustrations Paperback (USAC)

978-1-52677-039-4

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IMAGES OF WAR THE BATTLECRUISER NEW ZEALAND

A GIFT TO EMPIRE

By Matthew J. Wright

The book outlines the politics, the engineering issues, and provides a fast-paced account of the ship’s career through official documents, eyewitness accounts of her crew and other period documentation, including reports of her dockings and modifications.

August 2021 | 288 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 60 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52678-403-2

$42.95 | Holiday Price: $21.48

BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK

AN ANATOMY FROM BUILDING TO BREAKING

By Ian Buxton

The core of the book is the reproduction in full color of a complete set of as-fitted plans of the ship, including many details and close-ups. July 2021 | 320 pp. | 10 x 12 250 color & b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52677-729-4

$80.00 | Holiday Price: $40.00

ITALIAN BATTLESHIPS

CONTE DI CAVOUR’AND DUIIO CLASSES, 1911–1956

By Erminio Bagnasco

This book covers all the technical details of the ships, both as built and as re-built, but also provides an extended history of their active service, including battle plans and track charts.

July 2021 | 256 pp. | 9⁴⁄₅ x 11¹⁄₅ 300 photographs and line drawings Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52679-987-6

$72.95 | Holiday Price: $36.48

THE KAISER’S CRUISERS, 1871–1918 By Aiden Dodson

The Kaiser’s Cruisers, 1871–1918 covers the full range of cruising vessels operated or ordered by the Imperial German Navy between 1871 and 1918.

November 2021 | 256 pp. | 8½ x 10⁴⁄₅ 175 illustrations and 50 line drawings Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-68247-745-8

$65.95 | Holiday Price: $32.98

TARANTO

AND NAVAL AIR WARFARE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940–1945

By David Hobbs

This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm’s contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war in June 1940. January 2021 | 456 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 100 b/w photos, 6 maps Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52679-383-6

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BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE COLD WAR ERA By Norman Friedman

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. September 2021 | 384 pp. | 9½ x 11¹⁄₃ 300 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52677-122-3

$85.00 | Holiday Price: $42.50

FRENCH WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF STEAM, 1859–1914 By Stephen S. Roberts

This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 January 1859 and World War I.

October 2021 | 432 pp. | 9¾ x 11½ 200 illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52674-533-0

$90.00 | Holiday Price: $45.00

HISTORIC SHIP MODELS

OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES IN THE KRIEGSTEIN COLLECTION

By Arnold Kriegstein

This is an entirely new and revised edition of 17th and 18th Century Ship Models first published in 2007, now expanded to include the additions to the collection since that date.

August 2021 | 288 pp. | 11 x 11 300 color illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39900-977-5

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JAPAN’S PACIFIC WAR

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF THE EMPEROR’S WARRIORS

By Peter Williams

Based on years of research and over on hundred interviews with veterans, Peter Williams has compiled a fascinating collection of personal accounts by former Japanese soldiers, sailors, and airmen. May 2021 | 248 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 80 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-68247-737-3

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LOGISTICS

THE KEY TO VICTORY

By Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black fills a gap in war studies with logistics as a huge subject at the center of all conflict, globally and historically. October 2021 | 240 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39900-601-9

$42.95 | Holiday Price: $21.48

NAVAL SHIP MODELS OF WORLD WAR II IN 1/1250 AND 1/1200 SCALES

ENHANCEMENTS, CONVERSIONS AND SCRATCH BUILDING

By Robert K. Liu

This book focuses on models of the ships of the World War II, probably the most popular subject for miniature model collectors, and the author, a well-known modeler himself, addresses all the practical issues that might confront those many collectors who like to enhance, convert, and modify their models, or even scratchbuild models of ships not commercially available.

July 2021 | 160 pp. | 7½ x 9½ 300 color halftones Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52679-391-1

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NELSON’S NAVY IN 100 OBJECTS By Gareth Glover

Objects Glover investigates all aspects of this incredible organization and the lives of the men who served within it, including Nelson himself, using historical artifacts and naval terms that are now part of everyday language to illustrate them. July 2021 | 248 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ 100 color illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52673-132-6

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PENDANT NUMBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY

A HISTORY OF THE ALLOCATION OF PENDANT NUMBERS TO ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS AND AUXILIARIES

By Ben Warlow and Steve Bush

This book is designed as an easy-to-use reference work and as such is, in the main, composed of alpha-numeric listings to enable the user to find and identify warships by reference to ship name and to identify specific pendant numbers assigned to that name; or by pendant number to identify specific vessels assigned that number at various times. July 2021 | 440 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 32 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52679-378-2

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THE POWER AND THE GLORY

ROYAL NAVY FLEET REVIEWS FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO 2005

By Steve R. Dunn

The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review.

January 2021 | 288 pp. | 6¾ x 9¾ 85 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52676-902-2

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ROOSEVELT’S AND CHURCHILL’S ATLANTIC CHARTER

A RISKY MEETING AT SEA THAT SAVED DEMOCRACY

By Michael Kluger and Richard Evans

Michael Kluger and Richard Evans delve into the lives of the two most prominent and influential figures of the twentieth century. January 2021 | 248 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 16 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52678-630-2

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THE SEAFORTH WORLD NAVAL REVIEW 2022 By Conrad Waters

As well as its regular regional reviews, the 2022 volume focusses on three fleets: the Sri Lankan Navy, the Spanish Navy and the Royal Navy. March 2021 | 416 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52679-327-0

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THE SECOND WORLD WAR TANK CRISIS

THE FALL AND RISE OF BRITISH ARMOUR, 1919–1945

By Dick Taylor

Dick Taylor looks at the flaws in British financial policy, tank doctrine, design, production, and development before and throughout the war years which often had fatal consequences for the crews.

July 2021 | 248 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 16 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52679-213-6

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SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, 5TH EDITION

THE COMPLETE RECORD OF ALL FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY FROM THE 15TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT

By J .J. Colledge and Ben Warlow

The first stop for anyone wanting more information on any British warship from the fifteenth century to the present day when only the name is known.

November 2021 | 192 pp. | 10¼ x 9¾ 200 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-68247-746-5

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SPY SWAP

THE HUMILIATION OF RUSSIA’S INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

By Nigel West

The Vienna spy swap was the culmination of a CIA plan to free a specific individual, Gennadi Vasilenko, who had been the Agency’s key mole inside the KGB since March 1979.

May 2021 | 240 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 30 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39900-352-0

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TANK BATTLES OF THE COLD WAR, 1948–1991 By Anthony Tucker-Jones

As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield. May 2021 | 256 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 70 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52677-801-7

$43.95 | Holiday Price: $21.98

TASK FORCE 58

THE US NAVY’S FAST CARRIER STRIKE FORCE THAT WON THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC

By Rod Macdonald

Historian Rod Macdonald has created the most detailed account to date of the fast carrier strike force, the force that brought Japan to its knees and brought World War II to its crashing conclusion. November 2021 | 336 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x 9¼ 75 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-68247-738-0

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TRIBALS, BATTLES AND DARINGS

THE GENESIS OF THE MODERN DESTROYER

By Alexander Clarke

This is the first work to focus these three classes side by side, to examine their conception, their creation and their operational stories, many heroic, and to provide an insight into ship design, operation and culture.

January 2022 | 208 pp. | 7¾ x 10¼ 100 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52677-290-9

$52.95 | Holiday Price: $26.48

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MUTINY ON HMAV BOUNTY AND THE FATE OF FLETCHER CHRISTIAN By Glynn Christian

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the twenty-first century. June 2021 | 200 pp. | 6¹⁄₈ x ¼ 20 b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39901-418-2

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U-BOATS AT WAR IN 100 OBJECTS, 1939–1945 By Gordon Williamson

Gordon Williamson, using a carefully selected range of both wartime images and color images of surviving U-boat memorabilia from private collections, describes one hundred iconic elements of the U-boat service and its campaigns. April 2021 | 224 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ 186 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52675-902-3

$39.95 | Holiday Price: $19.98

WHAT SHIP, WHERE BOUND?

A HISTORY OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AT SEA

By David Craddock

What Ship, Where Bound? takes its title from the familiar opening exchange of signals between passing ships and celebrates the long history of visual communications at sea.

February 2021 | 96 pp. | 6¾ x 9¾ 300 color and b/w illustrations Paperback (USAC)

978-1-52678-482-7

$24.95 | Holiday Price: $12.48

WHEN ZIPPO WENT TO WAR

A LIGHTER LEGEND

By Philip Kaplan

When Zippo Went to War is illustrated with more than 140 unpublished photos those unique little lighters of old. Like the remarkable Zippo itself, the book works well and sheds some new light on its subject. May 2021 | 208 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ 150 color and b/w illustrations Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-52677-769-0

$37.95 | Holiday Price: $18.98

YEARS OF ENDURANCE

LIFE ABOARD THE BATTLECRUISER TIGER 1914–16

By John R. Muir

This memoir is perhaps one of the most immediate and vivid recollections of life in a Royal Navy battlecruiser to come out of World War I.

November 2021 | 312 pp. | 5½ x 8½ 4 b/w photographs Hardcover (USAC)

978-1-39901-720-6

$34.95 | Holiday Price: $17.48