ME Naval Non-Fiction - Battles Book List

Non-Fiction books which discuss particular fleet battles or ship engagements in the Modern Era

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• Angus Konstam
  • Barents Sea 1942: The Battle for Russia’s Arctic Lifeline
  • Convoy PQ-17 1942: Disaster in the Arctic
  • Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship
  • Jutland 1916: Twelve Hours That Decided The Great War
  • Naval Battle of Crete 1941: The Royal Navy at Breaking Point
  • North Cape 1943: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst
  • Operation Pedestal 1942: The Battle for Malta’s Lifeline
  • River Plate 1939: The sinking of the Graf Spee
  • Second Sirte 1942: The Desperate Battle to Relieve Malta
  • Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship
  • Taranto 1940: The Fleet Air Arm's Precursor to Pearl Harbor
  • The Battle of the North Cape: The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943
  • Tirpitz in Norway: X-craft midget submarines raid the fjords, Operation Source 1943
• Craig L. Symonds
  • Operation Neptune: D-Day Landings in Normandy June 1944
  • The Battle of Midway
• David Syrett
  • The Defeat of the German U-Boat: The Battle of the Atlantic
• Dudley Pope
  • 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea 1942
  • The Battle of the River Plate
• Edwin P. Hoyt
  • Blue Skies and Blood: The Battle of the Coral Sea
  • The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Death Knell of the Japanese Fleet
• Gary Staff
  • Skagerrak: The Battle of Jutland Through German Eyes
• Geirr H. Haarr & Tor Melien
  • The Sinking of the Blucher: The Battle of Drøbak Narrows, April 1940
• Geoffrey Bennett
  • Battle of the River Plate
  • Coronel and the Falklands
  • The Battle of Jutland
• Jak P Mallman Showell
  • U-Boats Attack!: The Battle of the Atlantic Witnessed by the Wolf Packs
• James D. Hornfischer
  • Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
  • The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
• John Jellicoe
  • The Grand Fleet 1914-1916: Its Creation, Development And Work
• John R. McKay
  • Arctic Convoy PQ18: 25 Days That Changed the Course of the War
• John Winton
  • Carrier Glorious: The Life and Death of an Aircraft Carrier
  • Death of the Scharnhorst: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Fearsome Warship
  • Sink the Haguro!: Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War
• Lawrence A. De Graw
  • Sitting Ducks at Guadalcanal: The U.S. Navy’s Disaster at the Battle of Savo Island in World War II
• Mark Lardas
  • Tsushima 1905: Death of a Russian Fleet
• Mark Stille
  • Battle of the Atlantic (1): The U-Boat Campaign against Britain, 1939–41
  • Battle of the Atlantic (2): From Operation Drumbeat to the Defeat of the Wolfpacks, 1942–43
  • Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid 1942: The Allies' Lowest Ebb
  • Java Sea 1942: Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies
  • Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar
  • Leyte Gulf 1944 (2): Surigao Strait and Cape Engaño
  • Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific
  • Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster
  • Philippines Naval Campaign 1944–45: The Battles After Leyte Gulf
  • Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier Duel in the South Pacific
  • The Coral Sea 1942: The First Carrier Battle
  • The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for Supremacy in the Pacific
  • The Philippine Sea 1944: The last great carrier battle
• Nicholas Jellicoe
  • Jutland: The Unfinished Battle
• Nick Hewitt
  • D-Day Fleet 1944, British Sector: The Royal Navy's Eastern Task Force
  • Normandy: The Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign
• Peter C. Smith
  • Midway, Dauntless Victory: Fresh Perspectives on America's Seminal Naval Victory of World War II
• Richard Doherty
  • Churchill's Greatest Fear: The Battle of the Atlantic - 3 September 1939 to 7 May 1945
• Richard Freeman
  • Atlantic Nightmare: The longest continuous military campaign in World War II
  • Coral Sea 1942: Turning the Tide
  • Midway: The Battle That Made the Modern World
  • Whirlwind: War in the Pacific
• Richard Hough
  • Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century
  • The Hunting Of Force Z: Britain's Greatest Modern Naval Disaster
• Richard Woodman
  • Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion
• Steve R Dunn
  • Tragedy and Revenge: The Battles of Coronel & the Falklands, 1914
• Thomas J. Cutler
  • The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23-26 October 1944