Biography
Iain Ballantyne has written extensively about navies past and present, including visiting warships to report on front-line operations in the Middle East, Mediterranean, Asia-Pacific and the Arctic.
A former newspaper and news agency defence reporter he is the founding and current Editor of the global naval news magazine WARSHIPS IFR www.warshipsifr.com in addition to editing the ‘WARSHIPS IFR Guide to the Royal Navy’ and ‘WARSHIPS IFR Guide to the US Navy’.
Iain has also contributed to national and regional newspapers, international magazines, as well as to television news, documentary programmes, podcasts and radio shows.
In 2017 Iain was presented with a prestigious Fellowship Award by the UK’s Maritime Foundation for making ‘a truly outstanding contribution to stimulating public engagement in maritime issues.’
HMS London
The new, expanded, revised edition of ‘HMS London’ is a crisply produced paperback. It takes readers on a voyage from the English Civil War, through the American War of Independence, Napoleonic Wars, Victorian era and into WW1, WW2, the Cold War, Desert Storm, and even the naval side of the Ukraine War. It also ventures into the Royal Navy’s future as embodied by a forthcoming new HMS London. That vessel, as detailed in a new final chapter, will be a City Class (Type 26) anti-submarine frigate, joining the fleet in the 2030s.
(Pen & Sword, 2022)
ISBN-10:139901286X
ISBN-13:978-1399012867
Hunter Killers
A ground-breaking work on the Cold War undersea confrontation between the Royal Navy’s submariners and those of the Russian Navy. It includes the exploits of daring British submarine captains whose adventures were consigned to the shadows until now. The story takes the reader on voyages in WW2-era submarines under Arctic ice, aboard nuclear-powered hunter-killer boats for espionage missions in Soviet-dominated seas and into dangerous undersea encounters in UK waters, the Mediterranean and East of Suez.
Also published in the USA as ‘Undersea Warriors’ (Pegasus Books, 2019)
(Orion, 2013)
Paperback
497 pages
Paperback and e-book £12.99
PAPERBACK / ISBN-13: 9781409139010
EBOOK / ISBN-13: 9781409144205
ASIN: B00CYKHQM4
The Deadly Trade
Taking readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achieve victory, first for the Kaiser and then 20 years later for Adolf Hitler. The Deadly Trade takes us into the post-WW2 face-off between the Soviets and NATO and concludes with Putin’s ‘missile boat diplomacy’ along with the use of cruise missiles to try and decapitate rogue regimes.
Also published in the USA, as ‘The Deadly Deep’ (Pegasus Books, 2018)
Paperback
744 pages
Paperback and e-book £12.99
PAPERBACK / ISBN-13: 9781409158523
EBOOK / ISBN-13: 9781409158530
ASIN: B0117JD97I
Iain is represented by the Peters Fraser + Dunlop (PFD) Literary Agents.
Contact Tim Bates, Head of Books and Literary Agent tbates@pfd.co.uk Daisy Chandley dchandley@pfd.co.uk
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