Bismarck, the pride of the German navy, displaced more than 50,000 tonnes fully loaded and when commissioned she was the largest warship to date. The Bismarck took part in only one operation that ended with her sinking after just nine days. Three days earlier, she was engaged in a classic naval battle where she sunk Britain's largest warship, the ......

A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding

The story of the Ark Royal and her 'people'

In 2019 PlanesTV is once again producing the official souvenir video programme of the Royal Navy International Air Day at Yeovilton. You can order the action packed DVD / Blu-ray now and with cameras on the ground, on board some of the display aircraft and behind the scenes it promises to be an extra special souvenir of the show.

All ......

In 2019 PlanesTV is once again producing the official souvenir video programme of the Royal Navy International Air Day at Yeovilton. You can order the action packed DVD now and with cameras on the ground, on board some of the display aircraft and behind the scenes it promises to be an extra special souvenir of the show.

All flying ......

A celebration of the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century, by the bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography.

Celebrating passenger ships in colour, large and small, from the 1940s onwards

The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of the Pacific War and one of the few naval battles of the entire war fought to a decisive victory. It was the culminating point of the Japanese drive to occupy the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and, to defend the territory, the Allies assembled a striking ......

This lavishly illustrated and very personal book covers the history of the battleship USS Missouri from her launch to the day when she was decommissioned as the world's last battleship in 1992.

Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963-66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the Falklands, the use of amphibious assault ships was ......