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ABDA Striking Force 1943: Fleet 19

by Angus Konstam. Softcover (7.25×9.75 inches). 96 pages. 2026. Subtitle: The Joint Allied Command Lost at Java Sea The ABDA (American, British, Dutch, and Australian) command of warships at the opening of WWII in the Pacific Theater seemed reasonable enough,

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Gunboats and Empires

by Boris Karpa. Hardback (6.2×9.2 inches). 153 pages. 2026. Subtitle: The Roots of Naval Policy in Early U.S. History This is not a naval battle book, but as the subtitle says, a naval policy book centered around the post-American Revolution

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D’You Hear There!: Daily Pipes of the Royal Navy

by Richard Harris. Hardback (5.0×7.3 inches). 144 pages. 2026. Pipes are basically public address announcements on a British Royal Navy ship. They range from the serious, like calling the crew to fight a fire, to the frivolous, such as pranks.

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Naval Warfare Under the Byzantine Empire

by Augustine H. Kobayashi Hardback (6.4×9.5 inches). 201 pages. 2026. Subtitle: From Justinian I to the Fourth Crusade This broad overview of Byzantine naval warfare notes a lack of period sources — even with the impressive bibliography (p173-181) divided into

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The Loss of HMS Hood

by Andrew Norman Hardback (6.3×9.5 inches). 190 pages. 2026. Subtitle: Three Minutes to Save The Ship In WWII, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in an eight-minute gun duel. That’s the conventional wisdom, although theories about

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Tragedy & Revenge: Coronel & the Falklands 1914

by Steve R. Dunn. Hardback (6.5×9.5 inches). 320 pages. 2025. Subtitle: The Battles of Coronel & the Falklands 1914 The German East Asiatic Squadron gave the British the slip in China thanks to a British error in judgment that sent

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Secret Warriors: British Submarines in the Cold War

by Paul Brown. Hardback (horizontal: 9.7×12.8 inches). 272 pages. 2026. It has the look of a photo book, and it contains many, but the text delves into the design, development, and deployment of UK submarines during the Cold War. Classes

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The Longest Campaign: Atlantic 1939-1945

by Brian E. Walter. Softcover (6.0×9.0 inches). 332 pages. 2026 reprint of 2020 book. Subtitle: Britain’s Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe 1939-1945 The subtitle says it all — a nice one-volume encapsulation of the naval battle in

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