This month's book vote sees five Fleet titles battling for your support. Read the full descriptions and have your say by filling out the form below. Plus, check out the results of last month's Campaign vote.

Allied Fleet of the Crimean War 

Mississippi River Gunboats 1861–65

IJN Combined Fleet of the Russo-Japanese War

Kriegsmarine Commerce Raiders 1939–45 

US Atlantic Fleet 19341–45

  
Allied Fleet of the Crimean War 
The Anglo-French fleet that was sent to support the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War was one of the most powerful naval forces to see action in the mid-19th century, a time of rapid and revolutionary changes in naval technology, as steam and shell came to the fore. The fleet dominated the Black Sea in the war against Russia, transporting troops, supplies, and artillery for major operations, and playing a key role in the siege of Sevastopol by blockading Russian ports and providing naval gunfire support. It also conducted operations in the Baltic Sea, threatening Russian coastal defences and diverting Russian resources. 

Mississippi River Gunboats 1861–65
The deployment of gunboats onto the Mississippi was key to General Winfield Scott’s ‘Anaconda Plan’ to cut the Confederacy in two. Often protected by cotton, iron, lumber or tin armour, the steam-powered, paddlewheel-driven boats of the Western Gunboat Flotilla (later the Mississippi River Squadron) brought mobility and firepower to the Mississippi theatre, and they were in constant action. in 1862 the gunboats’ actions reached their peak, with three pitched battles fought against the Confederate river fleet, while in 1863 they aided the Vicksburg campaign, and then later moved further south, launching raids against the Southern population, and protecting Federal troops from Confederate attacks.

IJN Combined Fleet of the Russo-Japanese War
In 1854, Japan’s Home Islands were a set of divided, pre-industrial feudal states. By the 1890s it was united under Emperor Meiji and undergoing an astonishing transformation. At the apex of this transformation was the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1904 it still only ranked as the world’s seventh largest, less than half the size of the top four navies. But Japan had focused both its industrial and organizational effort into building a navy second in quality to no other. This book examines the Combined Fleet, the heart of the Imperial Japanese Navy that destroyed the Tsar’s fleet in 1904–05, from its warships and technology to the vital importance of the training, doctrine, and organization that was modelled on the world’s best.

Kriegsmarine Commerce Raiders 1939–45 
The limitations imposed upon the Kriegsmarine after World War I shaped German naval thinking and encouraged the development of asymmetric maritime warfare, and the resulting commerce-raiding and blockade-running campaign was one of the most daring and strategically imaginative aspects of its naval war in 1939–45. From the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to the Pacific, German auxiliary cruisers and blockade runners operated thousands of miles from home, attacking merchant shipping, laying mines, gathering intelligence, supplying submarines, and attempting to break the Allied naval blockade. This book would examine not only the famous surface raiders such as Atlantis, Kormoran, Pinguin, and Thor, but also the lesser-known network of blockade runners that linked Germany with Japan and occupied territories in the Far East, analysing the command structure, intelligence systems, operational methods, supply chains, and strategic objectives behind these operations, while also charting their gradual decline as Allied intelligence, radar, codebreaking, and naval dominance tightened their grip on the Axis powers.

US Atlantic Fleet 19341–45
While the US Navy’s primary focus on entering World War II was the Pacific Theater, its Atlantic Fleet was given the critical task of keeping the sea lanes between America and Europe open, as well as ensuring security in its own waters. The command went through a steep and shocking learning curve in 1941–42, going to war against the battle-hardened U-boat crews with few resources and little training. However its capabilities improved rapidly and the Atlantic Fleet would come to dominate the ocean, and would safeguard the Allied amphibious landings from Operation Torch to D-Day.

Last month, we asked what you would like to see published in our Campaign series. Thank you to everyone who voted and provided feedback. Here are the results: 

Magnesia 190/189 BC - 18.5%

Nájera 1367 - 12.7%

Red Cloud's War 1866-68 - 35%

Operation Arctic Fox 1941 - 20.3%

Panama 1989-90 - 13.5%