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- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:51Where to begin reading about Roman naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:40:06Books and a visit for understanding the Venetian ArsenalQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:45Finding a modern naval warfare primerQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:49Books for studying Italian battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48A visual reference guide to Mussolini's NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:28:56Why hard-fought convoys dominate Atlantic historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:32Where to start reading about the Belgian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20247:23A Christmas shelf of destroyers, U-boats, shipyards, cruisers, and naval aircraftChapter
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:40:51A book on the Tribal, Battle, and Daring-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:00:55A Battle of Midway book for an interested eight-year-oldQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...23:47British Naval Gun Mountings and the industry behind big gunsChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...25:27Elswick gun production and the cost of individual barrelsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...27:21The 1932 estimate for emergency sixteen-inch mountingsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...28:53Why the Admiralty brought Coventry into gun-mounting contractsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...34:22When a general history question needs a specialistNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:08:00Arms for Russia and the Arctic naval warChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:08:52British aid to Russia before officials expected Soviet survivalNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:42:12Osprey fleet studies on Japan and the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:26:28Checking new archive releases before a naval history book goes to pressQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:35:07The British Way of War as an introduction to maritime strategyChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:18:30The Price of Victory and Royal Navy professionalizationChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:19:06HMS Excellent linked gunnery training with research and promotionNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:20:21Why warrant officers occupied different places in the naval hierarchyNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:45:53English-language starting points for German U-boat developmentQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:05:45English-language reading on South American battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:29:06Books for studying the Imperial Russian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:30:24A historical naval-fiction series to readQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:38:25Reginald Custance beyond Mahan and CorbettQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:45:20John Jordan's older illustrated guideQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:58:51Building a naval aviation library from complementary referencesChapter
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:04:08Tracing 801 Squadron through Sturtivant's reference workChapter
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:36:30From Flycatcher to Hawker NimrodChapter
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered4:00:35Ed Heinemann's account of the SBD DauntlessChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:03:33Archival battle summaries of the Pacific WarChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:23:26A Royal Navy minesweeper officer's memoirQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:18:13Reading the Royal Navy battle summary of OkinawaChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:49:22Corbett's operational study of the Russo-Japanese WarChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:03:44The rise of Japanese carrier aircraft designChapter
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...28:25Eastern Fleet is the suggested route beyond Mediterranean narrativesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...58:22Andrew Lambert's books open the Victorian Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:29:27Andrew Lambert's Admirals is the single-book favoriteQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series40:17Where to start reading on Force HQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:23:14The difficulty of recommending an East India Company ship historyQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:37:20Why a Flower-class book began with SackvilleQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:40:21The gap in broad Indian Ocean naval historiesQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:52:58How a historian assesses a disappointing bookQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!42:44Where to start reading modern maritime strategyQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?49:27Carrier-history books to start withQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak27:05Why the Drinkwater novels suit a naval television seriesQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak3:01:21Choosing books for public discussionNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:17:14Reading about daily life aboard a Flower-class corvetteQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:19:19A strong book recommendation does not require agreement with every argumentNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:48:52Plan books and biographies open routes into Black Swan and Captain Walker researchQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War3:18:52Naval Eyewitnesses organizes war through lived experienceChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 326:20Where to find an accurate plan of HMS AchillesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:03:49Finding usable histories of the Soviet Navy at warQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading11:28Ned Low, coerced whalers, and piracy's human costChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading18:12The Harwich Force at Dogger BankChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading37:17Project 66 and the Soviet heavy-cruiser debateChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:08:49From Project 65 to the Sverdlov classChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:16:54Using Cruiser Birmingham to understand ship layoutChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:46:28Fiji-class cruisers under treaty limitsChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:22:20Estimating deaths from the blockade of GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:51:26Cruiser designs that served through both world warsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:58:26Where to read about local naval gun controlQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times16:25Raven and Roberts on British battleship designChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times47:51Roman strategy reconstructed from forts and roadsChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times56:17Finding books on the Italian Navy at warQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:11:53Reading beyond Shattered Sword on MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:25:22Maritime London and the troubled launch of Great EasternChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:58:55London transport from Roman roads to tunnelling shieldsChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:06:43HMS Terror from bomb vessel to discovery shipChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels14:35Nine Sailed Star and the conflict between duty and honorChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels40:11Testing the Roman King Arthur theoryChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:06:37Why modern sparring cannot reproduce historical combatChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:12:44Under Pressure and entry into Britain's Polaris forceChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:09:31How repeated reading becomes project-specific research notesQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:22:00A Royal Navy reading guide to the Indian Ocean warQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:26:43Hubert de Burgh and the Battle of SandwichChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:37:24The Royal Navy in Action as visual naval historyChapter
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...43:17Why Admiral-class histories should not begin with Hood's lossQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:24:39Knight of the North Atlantic reconstructs U-402's patrol warChapter
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:36:28An annotated bibliography as a map of Royal Navy scholarshipChapter
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:36:16Matthew Wright's route into HMS New Zealand's storyNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:06:21Why John Roberts's older British warship reference remains usefulChapter
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:13:44Anson's Navy as a guide to fleet logisticsChapter
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:19:54Why new archival work belongs in later book editionsNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books6:14Reference books for a Tribal-class destroyer modelNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books18:17Neutral shipping in the Spanish Civil WarNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books52:38Why Canadian and Australian destroyer research needed archive visitsQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books53:24Choosing the scope of a history of Tribal, Battle, and Daring destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books1:05:12The Old Gang's trench-breaking TOG tanksChapter
- Bruships 55: New Books1:13:29Valentine variants, the Churchill Crocodile, and less familiar British tanksNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:30:32Following British Cold War submarine designNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail3:16:37Learning frigate history through family memory and booksQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books26:37Hunting Tirpitz as a source-bookNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:02:41Using Norman Friedman to follow Essex design changesChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword7:15A professional reading starter set for a Royal Navy officerQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:37:51A visual guide to British wartime sloops and frigatesChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:46:31Why a history of technological warfare needs naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:13:12Three starting books for Operation Neptune and NormandyQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:21:05Books for tracing how warship classes evolvedQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:14:52How Royal Navy officers find professional readingQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:38:09Hornfischer's destroyer history captured the tin-can sailorsNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!2:03:19Breaking Seas places people around the loss of HMS VictoriaChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!2:14:02The Somerville Papers preserve private and official command recordsNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!2:27:42Are the Somerville Papers research or recreational reading?Q&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment16:19Pepys's Navy as a guide to Restoration warshipsChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment40:45Fleet reviews as a long view of Royal Navy changeNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:03:09Elizabeth's Sea Dogs as a guide to Drake's warNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History19:13Roosevelt's twenty-ship argument for naval preparation before warNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History25:19Does Roosevelt's War of 1812 history cover the Great Lakes?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History41:28Reading Modern Naval Strategy as evidence of interwar thinkingNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History1:04:17A Midway anthology built from specialists and participantsChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History1:23:03Comparing Roosevelt's naval ideas with the policies he carried outNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History2:01:10James Cable beyond Corbett and MahanNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History2:40:43Why do Castle-class corvette totals look inconsistent?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys7:54In Harm's Way and the loss of USS IndianapolisChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys17:10Coastal Forces, MTB 718, and clandestine operationsChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys24:33Winkle Brown's Wings of the Weird and WonderfulChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys46:54The Gathering Storm and the early U-boat warChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:04:57Is there a biography of Admiral Reginald Henderson?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:09:07U-Boats at War in 100 ObjectsChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:19:11Amphibious Assault Falklands on command, lift, and logisticsChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:37:35A critical reading of The Eastern Fleet and the Indian OceanChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:55:04Books on gaming the interwar naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:00:15Trafalgar Chronicle and the reputation of William CornwallisChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:17:25United States Navy Destroyers in photographs and systems detailChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:33:21Junks and Sampans of the YangtzeChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:47:32Lepanto 1571 and the Ottoman composite bowChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:59:15Stringbags as an illustrated naval-aviation historyChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:02:44A reading route into the Battle of the Java SeaQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A8:36Using Brassey’s annuals as naval reference worksChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A23:31First-hand accounts of Pacific carrier warfareChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A36:11A reading path from sail to the dreadnought eraChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A54:03Judge naval history by its evidenceNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A58:42A survey starting point for the Spanish-American WarQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:11B. B. Schofield on Arctic convoys and cold-water warfareChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:12:44A starting history for the post-war Royal NavyQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:13:26The Town-class story beyond HMS BelfastChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:23:17Edward Ashmore’s memoir and checking recollectionChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:22Destroyer actions from the opening war yearsChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:57:13Philip Vian’s view from the sharp endChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:02:27A Canadian destroyer officer’s naval careerChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:08:35A close account of the Falklands amphibious assaultChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:58Cunningham’s career in A Sailor’s OdysseyChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:30:33A participant’s account of the pursuit of BismarckChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A14:17A broad reference work on amphibious assaultNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A20:52Theodore Roosevelt as naval historianNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:19An accessible starting history of DunkirkNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A29:24The candid wartime memoir Happy OdysseyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A37:58Reading the St Nazaire RaidNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A39:56No Picnic and command in the FalklandsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A42:33The Battle of San Carlos and recoverable capabilityNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A46:11Beachhead Assault and Royal Navy commandosNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A59:02James Holland's Normandy '44 from an amphibious perspectiveQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:19:53A starting book on Royal Navy cruiser designQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A19:46A fleet book can be useful while still showing its limitsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A21:39Hawker and Blackburn histories connect aircraft data to design lineagesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A29:38A US Navy aircraft reference recovers overlooked patrol designsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:26Choosing the useful book is not always obviousNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A37:04Some Battle of the Atlantic books introduce rather than exhaustQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A41:45Short aircraft extend the naval-aviation reference shelfQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A58:24Not every naval book works equally well in audioQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:38Robert Massie is useful as a starting pointQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:00:37For Royal Navy Pacific operations, read beyond the obvious campaign booksQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A5:18How to use Norman Friedman's research without inheriting every conclusionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A11:28Japanese naval aviation and Pacific War reading guideChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A11:28Philip Vian's inside account of the British Pacific FleetNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A13:09Two routes into the Zero and prewar Japanese aircraft designNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A17:56War Plan Orange as a guide to American Pacific strategyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A21:27British Pacific Fleet history built from veterans' recollectionsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:05Far-Flung Lines for imperial defence and wider strategyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A26:18Japanese and British naval aces in paired readingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A29:05Reading Theodore Roosevelt as a naval theorist and policymakerNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A30:57Operational maps for Coral Sea and Midway, plus an IJN overviewNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A43:44Why an incomplete history book can spark better researchNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:07:01A Kaneohe Bay history stronger than its coverNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A10:59Theodore Roosevelt's naval histories as recommended readingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A8:46Choosing naval histories by scale and purposeChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A15:26Reading Jackie Fisher's memoirs against his egoNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A20:36How the Tribal-class book balances three historiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A21:57Reading Royal Navy in Eastern Waters criticallyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A22:47What to expect from French Armoured CruisersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A43:03Starting points for interwar torpedo researchQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A2:22Warship 2020 contents and valueChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:28:44Naval reference books beyond Jane's Fighting ShipsQ&A