This is the sixth volume in the ShipCraft series of books covering the history and the modelling of a famous class of warship.

Setting an unsurpassed standard of cartographic excellence, this new atlas of the Great War at Sea offers the First truly graphic account of the naval conflict that was to determine the very outcome of the war itself.

The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership.

On 15 June 1940, the British Admiralty launched Operation Ariel – a rescue effort in western France that followed the Dunkirk evacuations. Over the course of 10 days, Allied ships took terrible risks to snatch more than 500,000 civilian refugees and British soldiers from the grasp of advancing German forces.