(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472861368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first in a series of books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472842855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the second volume in a two-part illustrated study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472846723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472819208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fully illustrated book details the unequal clash between the United States and Imperial Japanese navies in the largest carrier battle of the Pacific War which destroyed the IJN's ability to conduct further carrier operations.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472843050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fully illustrated study examines and compares the roles of the US Navy submarines and the Imperial Japanese Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities during World War II.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472851765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472860972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472860491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472854186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472860484
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II. Superbly illustrated, this explains how they became the backbone of the Cold War fleet.
(Hardback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472862068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472818164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472825353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472818102
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472817198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fully illustrated study lifts the veil on two of history's last battleship-vs-battleship battles as the US and Japanese navies clashed in the Pacific during World War II.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472820631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Employing archive photographs and full-color artwork, this study reassesses the role and record of Japan's formidable submarine fleet in the months after Pearl Harbor.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472832269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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During the struggle for the Mediterranean in World War II, British and Italian battleships entered combat on three occasions in 1940 and 1941. In this fully illustrated account of these battles, historian Mark Stille assesses the technology, crews, doctrine, and combat record of the capital ships that took part.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472845818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of the enduring Essex-class ships, the US Navy's finest and most numerous fleet carrier during World War II, which were modernized repeatedly and served with distinction.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472835512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This new title tells the story of Japan's long-range air campaign to destroy the "Cactus Air Force" on Guadalcanal, why Henderson Field was so vital to both sides, and how the Allies defeated the previously all-conquering Japanese.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472840554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new illustrated history and analysis of Italy's World War II destroyers.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472856432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472831613
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Java Sea, a key Japanese victory in their advance throughout Southeast Asia.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472840592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This illustrated study explains how Japan's all-conquering air forces spearheaded the invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and stunned the defending British, Dutch, and American forces.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472811226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of the Imperial Japanese Army's victory over the British forces during World War II, focusing on the significance of the aerial campaign that saw Japan claim air superiority.
