In "The Hunt for Hitler's Warship" Patrick Bishop tells not only of the sinking of the Tirpitz but of how the hunt for the German battleship took on such significance that it diverted badly needed resources that could have been better used elsewhere.
Read MoreDespite its nautical title, 'Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron,' covers both the naval and ground war of the War of 1812 and is a fantastic addition to the scholarship that is shedding new light on this 'forgotten' war.
Read More"Steam and Iron" is without doubt the most accurate, comprehensive and detailed of any World War I naval game on the market. It is short on fancy graphics but long on historical detail.
Read MoreThe War Against the Nazi U-boats 1942-1944: The Anti-Submarine Command. L. Douglas Keeney, ed. Premiere, 2012. Paperback. 181 pages. $14.95 During the opening years of World War II, the Nazi military employed one of the deadliest nautical weapons, the submarine, to great effect against Allied shipping. German U-boats scoured the waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean in an effort to disrupt shipments of American goods to Great Britain, hoping to do by sea what they could not do by land or air: choke the life out of the British Isles. Within a few months of American involvement in the war, however, the two Allied nations began making a concerted effort to eliminate the U-boat as a threat. Cooperation between the two nations and improvements in tactics employed against the U-boats suffered in early 1942, but by 1944, the Allies had won the Battle of the Atlantic and elsewhere. The U-boat would play a greatly reduced role for the remainder of the war, mostly maintaining a defensive...
Read More"Death Before Dishonor - The Battle of Santiago Bay" has unexpected depth and requires a number of tactical decisions be made by the player. At a price of $5.95, it will take gamers back to the days of Yaquinto's inexpensive Album games.
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