BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers Brian Lavery’s recent book examining the Royal and US Navies in the Second World War.

624 pages Rear Admiral R. G. Melly Brian Lavery, with his background as a senior curator at the National Maritime […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. Professor Andrew Lambert considers a book originally published in 1691, edited and contextualised by Professors John Hattendorf and Geoffrey Till.

212 pages Prof Andrew Lambert Henry Maydman served in the Royal Navy as a sailor, and latterly a Purser, from […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a reprint of Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton’s 1964 memoir of his experiences in the Battle of the Atlantic.

256 pages David Collins The works of Peter Gretton are having a resurgence thanks to the beneficial republishing programme of […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book, published in 2017, telling the story of the Royal Navy’s last Gunroom, which also supported Operation GRAPPLE.

320 pages Capt. Andrew Welch (retd.) This is the most entertaining book I’ve read in ages. It tells, with many […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. Professor Andrew Lambert considers a book on the War of 1812, which ‘provides the ideal introduction to a complex, and much misunderstood conflict’.