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Free Download Alexander Stilwell – The Story of HMS Revenge
Pen & Sword | 2009 | ISBN: 1844159817 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 59.11 MB
Between Drake’s Revenge and the Polaris submarine, the most recent Revenge, are the glory years of the Royal Navy. Revenge was at the Armada, the Azores, Trafalgar and Jutland and with weapons capable of terrible destruction.

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Free Download Andrew Norman – HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy
Spellmount | 2008 | ISBN: 1862274533 | English | 162 pages | PDF | 93.38 MB
When the battle cruiser HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismark and her consort Prinz Eugen in May 1941, the shock to the Royal Navy, Britain, and the world was immense. The Hood had seemed invincible and the epitome of naval power with her eight 15-inch and eight 4-inch guns. She would prove be anything but, and would become the tomb of 1,418 men. Basing his narrative on primary sources at the Royal Naval Museum and in Germany, plus a unique interview with one of only three survivors of the disaster, Andrew Norman offers his own theory for the ship’s fantastically rapid loss. Doubts were immediately raised over the official verdict. Just how could an inboard fire break a ship this large in two? And why did she sink in just seven minutes? Andrew Norman suggests a new answer.

Free Download Bruce Taylor – The End of Glory: War & Peace in HMS Hood, 1916-1941
Naval Institute Press | 2012 | ISBN: 1591142350 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 117.16 MB
There have been many fine books, movies, and television shows about the legendary HMS Hood. No work has ever offered the level of in-depth research combined with such a fine narrative as in THE END OF GLORY. The great battlecruiser HMS Hood was the ship that flew the flag across the world in the 1930s during the twilight years of the British Empire. In 1941 she was destroyed in seconds by the battleship Bismarck, a catastrophe that dumbfounded the British public. For the officers and crew who manned her for twenty years, she was a home. This new book, through official documents as well as the personal accounts and memories of more than 150 crewmen, offers a vivid image of the difficult life on a warship in peacetime and in war.

Free Download Ken Otter – HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story
Pen & Sword | 2004 | ISBN: 1844151220 | English | 224 pages | PDF | 115.68 MB
On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting ‘G’) was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats searching for German soldiers who were victims of a previous British naval attack. The fact that Allied destroyers were in the proximity and were not sent to the rescue was a result of poor naval communications and indecision by the local fleet commanders. Gloucester had been low on anti-aircraft ammunition and her crew exhausted before being dispatched from the main fleet to search for the stricken destroyer HMS Greyhound. With only HMS Fiji as company, she came under attack from German bombers and when Gloucester’s ammunition was finally exhausted she suffered several direct hits and was set ablaze from stem to stern and left out of control.

Free Download Nick Hewitt – Firing on Fortress Europe: HMS Belfast at D-Day
Imperial War Museums | 2015 | ISBN: 1904897576 | English | 180 pages | PDF | 114.91 MB
As D-Day unfolded on June 6, 1944, one of the ships supporting the invasion was the HMS Belfast, a Royal Navy light cruiser. Now a popular floating museum on the Thames, the Belfast played an important part not just in the events of that day, but in the longer Battle for Normandy. This book uses firsthand accounts from the rich collections of the Imperial War Museums to tell the story of the planning of and build-up to D-Day, the action and danger of that day, and the ship’s subsequent history. Packed with testimony from oral histories, diaries, memoirs, and letters, as well as more than two hundred color photographs, it brings the heroism of D-Day vigorously to life.

Free Download Ronald Careless – Battleship Nelson: The Story of HMS Nelson
Arms & Armour Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0853687269 | English | 176 pages | PDF | 62.87 MB

Free Download Ross Watton – The Cruiser HMS Belfast
Conway Maritime Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0851779565 | English | 122 pages | PDF | 176.58 MB
Anatomy of the Ship

Free Download Bruce Taylor, Thomas Schmid – The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography 1916-1941
Chatam Publishing | 2005 | ISBN: 186176216X | 274 pages | PDF | 114.89 MB
Over the years I have collected some really great books on HMS Hood, below is my collection, I also have one on the way from ebay, more of that later in the post. As I get closer to starting the model I think these along with the HMS Hood Association web site will be invaluable. Most of these books can still be purchased and as such I will link them accordingly.The Battlecruiser HMS Hood – An Illustrated Biography by Bruce Taylor.Just a superb book, about the best there is, an amazing source of information in words and pictures.Technical details and the ship’s fighting career are detailed, but a remarkable collection of largely unpublished photographs allows this book to concentrate on shipboard life for the crew of the most glamorous warship of her time.

Free Download Angus Konstam, Peter Dennis, Alan Gilliland, "U-47 in Scapa Flow: The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak 1939"
English | 2015 | pages: 82 | ISBN: 1472808908 | PDF | 21,4 mb
Even with Germany in the ascendency at the beginning of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy. Nothing and nobody could penetrate the defences of this bastion, which was built up to formidable levels in World War I and symbolized the faith placed by the British in the invulnerability of their navy. So how, in the dead of night on October 13, was Gunther Prien’s U-47 able to slip through the line of protective warships undetected to sink the mighty Royal Oak? This book provides the answer with an account of one of the most daring naval raids of World War II indeed – in all of history. Drawing on the very latest underwater archaeological research, this study explains how Prien and his crew navigated the North Sea, Kirk Sound and some very unlikely odds to land a devastating blow on the British, and became among the very first German heroes of World War II. It reveals the level of disrepair that Scapa Flow had fallen into, and delves into the intriguing conspiracy theories surrounding the event, including an alleged cover-up by the then First Sea Lord, Winston Churchill.