BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new book providing an account of, and examining the circumstances around PQ17.

240 pages Rear Admiral Guy Liardet The title is derived from the loudhailer message delivered to Commodore J C K […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book examining the development of the aircraft carrier in French service through the 20th century and beyond.

288 pages RAdm R G Melly John Jordan, perhaps best known as the editor of the annual Warship volume, is […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers the latest edition of Geoffrey Till’s Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.

438 pages Dr James Bosbotinis Since the first edition of Seapower was published in 2005, as Till explains, “the world […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a timely edited volume on the naval history of the Middle East, providing a wide-ranging set of chapters and case studies.

270 pages Prof Andrew Lambert Kings College London The Middle East, a term coined by Alfred T Mahan at the […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance, whose “achievement is not merely to reconstruct Admiral Raymond A. Spruance’s operational record, but to illuminate a deeper and more unsettling truth: that victory in industrial war may depend less on boldness than on restraint, less on charisma than on intellect, and less on the commander as hero than on the commander as thinker.”