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.”

368 pages Gp Capt Kevin Billings Andrew K. Blackley’s Wielding the Trident is a biography of paradox. It recounts the […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of life on board the US Navy light cruiser, USS Boise, during the Second World War.

235 pages Kevin Billings Ian S. Bertram’s On Board the USS Boise in World War II: The Battles and Secret […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book examining the development of Japanese carrier airpower from the end of the First World War through to the end of the Second World War.

128 pages Dr James Bosbotinis Originally published in Italy in 2021 and translated into English by the Italian naval historians […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of and analysing the battle off Samar, part of the wider Battle of Leyte Gulf, in which a powerful Japanese surface force, including the Yamato, attacked a US escort carrier task unit.

271 pages Dr James Bosbotinis The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history, with as Mark […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a short book examining the development and operational history of the US Navy’s Atlanta-class light cruisers, which were in service in the 1940s and early 1950s.