Royal Navy Monitors of World War II
Britain's battleship-calibre gunboats
$29.12
- Paperback
48 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2026
Summary
A superbly illustrated history of the Royal Navy’s World War II monitors – gunboats armed with a single, large-calibre gun turret – and their roles and battles around the world.
When World War II broke out, the Royal Navy possessed a sizeable fleet of battleships and battlecruisers. However, these formed the core of the battle fleets, and were rarely free to perform an equally vital mission – the naval bombardment of targets ashore.
In the first book to focus on the subject, n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472868138 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472868137 |
| Author: | Angus Konstam, Adam Tooby |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Osprey Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 182mm x 248mm |
| Series: | New Vanguard |
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Critics Review
a readable and detailed account * The Naval Review *
There are of course a good selection of archive photos of the ships, and the colour artwork to accompany the text is once again first class in my view. * Military Model Scene *
Angus Konstam
Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.
Adam Tooby is a renowned 3D modeller and digital artist.
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