
Note that all books are in English unless the title is in another language.
Some books have appeared on earlier lists. This is either because they were not taken up or, unfortunately, because some people requested them and then opted out―not at all friendly!
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1. Blair, Clay, Hitler’s U-Boat War Volume 1: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (1996)
2. Blair, Clay, Hitler’s U-Boat War Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942-1945 (1998)
3. Breyer, Siegfried, Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970 (1973)
4. Breyer, Siegfried, & Norman Polmar, Guide to the Soviet Navy, 2nd edition (1977)
5. Burt, R.A., British Battleships, 1889-1904 (2013)
6. Burt, R.A., British Battleships of World War One (2012)
7. Burt, R.A., British Battleships, 1919-1945 (2012)
8. Campbell, John, Warship Monographs 2: Queen Elizabeth Class (1972)
9. Canney, Donald L., The Old Steam Navy, Volume 1: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 (1990)
10. Canney, Donald L., The Old Steam Navy, Volume 2: The Ironclads, 1842-1885 (1993)
11. Canney, Donald L., Sailing Warships of the U.S. Navy (2001)
12. Chesneau, Roger, Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1998)
13. Chun, Victor, American PT Boats in World War II, A Pictorial History (1976)
14. Dodson, Aidan, The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1871-1918 (2016)
15. Edwards, Bernard, Death in the Doldrums: U-Cruiser Actions Off West Africa (2005)
16. Ferrell, Bob, The United States Mosquito Fleet (1977)
17. Fock, Harald, Fast Fighting Boats, 1870-1945: Their Design, Construction, and Use (1978)
18. Fontenoy, Paul E., Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (2006)
19. Fontenoy, Paul E., Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (2007)
20. Friedman, Norman, et al., Ship’s Data 3: USS Arizona (BB39) (!976)
21. Friedman, Norman, U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History (1995)
22. Friedman, Norman, U.S. Submarines Since 1945, An Illustrated Design History (1994)
23. Gannon, Michael, Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies’ Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943 (1989)
24. Gardiner, Robert (ed.), Warship 1989
25. Gardiner, Robert (ed.), Warship 1990
26. Garzke, William H. & Robert O. Dulin Jr., Battleships: United States Battleships in World War II (1976)
27. Grann, David, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (2023)
28. Gröner, Erich, & Dieter Jung & Martin Maass, German Warships 1815-1945, Volume 2: U-Boats and Mine Warfare Vessels (1991)
29. Hamilton, Aaron S., Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of U-402, 1941-1943 (2022)
30. Hansen, Chuck, USS San Francisco, A Technical History (1981)
31. Hansen, Hans Jürgen, Die Schiffe der deutschen Flotten 1848-1945 (1977)
32. Haskell, W.A., Shadows on the Horizon: The Battle of Convoy HX-233 (1998)
33. Hellwinkell, Lars, Hitler’s Gateway to the Atlantic: German Naval Bases in France 1940-1945 (2014)
34. Hopkins, Leon, William Phipps and the Diving Bell Bubble (2025)
35. Jordan, John (ed.), Warship 2018
36. Jordan, John (ed.), Warship 2019
37. Jordan, John (ed.), Warship 2020
38. Jordan, John (ed.), Warship 2022
39. Jordan, John (ed.), Warship 2023
40. Koop, Gerhard & Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Battleship Scharnhorst (1998)
41. Koop, Gerhard & Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Battleship Tirpitz (1998)
42. Koop, Gerhard & Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Vom Original zum Modell: Die deutschen Zerstörer 1935-1945 (1995)
43. Koop, Gerhard & Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Vom Original zum Modell: Die Leichten Kreuzer der Königsberg-Klasse (1994)
44. Lambert, Andrew, Warrior: The World's First Ironclad, Then and Now (1987)
45. Layman, R.D. & Stephen McLaughlin, The Hybrid Warship: The Amalgamation of Big Guns and Aircraft (1991)
46. Lenton, H.T., American Gunboats and Minesweepers (1974)
47. Lenton, H.T., German Warships of the Second World War (1975)
48. Mariners’ Museum, Aak to Zumbra: A Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft (2000)
49. McCarthy, Michael, Ships’ Fastenings From Sewn Boat to Steamship (2005)
50. McLean, David & Antony Preston (eds.), Warship 1996
51. McLean, David & Antony Preston (eds.), Warship 1997-1998
52. Meister, Jürg, Soviet Warships of the Second World War (1977)
53. Messimer, Dwight R., Verschollen: World War I U-Boat Losses (2002)
54. Möller, Eberhard & Werner Brack, The Encyclopedia of U-Boats From 1904 to the Present (2002)
55. Niestlé, Axel, German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Details of Destruction (1998)
56. Padfield, Peter, War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II (1995)
57. Parkes, Oscar, British Battleships, 1860 to 1950: A History of Design, Construction, and Armament (1970)
58. Polmar, Norman & Jurrien Noot, Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 (1991)
59. Preston, Antony, Aircraft Carriers, An Illustrated History (1997)
60. Preston, Antony (ed.), Warship 1999-2000
61. Preston, Antony (ed.), Warship 2004
62. Roberts, John, Anatomy of the Ship: The Battleship Dreadnought (1992)
63. Roberts, John, Anatomy of the Ship: The Battlecruiser Hood (1982)
64. Roberts, John (ed.), Warship 1994
65. Roberts, John, Warship Monographs 1: Invincible Class (1972)
66. Rudenno, Victor, Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea (2008)
67. Scher, Rod, Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia (2024)
68. Shoker, Randall S., Technical Reference 1: U.S.S. North Carolina (2000)
69. Showell, Jak. P. Mallmann, U-Boats Under the Swastika (1989)
70. Silverstone, Paul H., The U.S. Navy Warship Series Volume 1: The Sailing Navy 1775-1854 (2001)
71. Silverstone, Paul H., The U.S. Navy Warship Series Volume 2: Civil War Navies 1855-1883 (2001)
72. Smiley, Jane (ed.) The Sagas of the Icelanders (1997)
73. Sowinski, Larry, USS Intrepid Album (1976)
74. Terzibaschitsch, Stefan, Flugzeugträger der US-Navy (!982)
75. Terzibaschitsch, Stefan, Das FRAM-Modernisierungsprogramm der US-Navy (1975)
76. Terzibaschitsch, Stefan, Escort Carriers and Aviation Support Ships of the US Navy (1983)
77. Trapp, Georg von, To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander (2007)
78. Tredrea, John & Eduard Sozaev, Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696-1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2010)
79. Ware, Trevor, Arctic Genius: Sir William Edward Parry: The Original Arctic Explorer (2025)
80. Watts, Anthony J. & Brian G. Gordon, The Imperial Japanese Navy (1971)
81. Wells, John, The Immortal Warrior: Britain's First and Last Battleship (1987)
82. White, John F., U-Boat Tankers 1941-45: Submarine Suppliers to Atlantic Wolf Packs (1998)
83. Williamson, Gordon, Hitler’s Navy: The Kriegsmarine in World War II (2022)
84. Wills, Simon, Shipwrecks in 100 Objects: Stories of Survival, Tragedy, Innovation and Courage (2022)
85. Woodhouse, Henry, Woodhouse’s Textbook of Naval Aeronautics (1991)
86. Wynn, Kenneth, U-Boat Operations of the Second World War, Volume 1: Career Histories, U1-U510 (2003)
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