John Winton
Author · 16 books
A former officer in the Royal Navy, John Pratt was the author of a variety of fiction and non-fiction works published under the pen name John Winton. Pratt also served for 14 years as an obituarist for The Daily Telegraph.
Books

Below the Belt
Novelty, Subterfuge and Surprise in Naval Warfare
1981

Sink the Haguro!
Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War
1979

The Forgotten Fleet
The Story of the British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45
1969

The Submariners
Life in British Submarines, 1901-1999
2023

HMS Leviathan
1968

The fighting Téméraire
1971

Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor!
Life on the Lower-deck of the Victorian Navy
1977

Carrier Glorious
The Life and Death of an Aircraft Carrier
1986

Death of the Scharnhorst
1983

War in the Pacific
Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
1978

Ultra in the Pacific
How breaking Japanese codes & cyphers affected naval operations against Japan 1941-45
1993

Cunningham
The Greatest Admiral Since Nelson
1997

We Saw the Sea
1960

We Joined the Navy
1959

Ultra at Sea
How Breaking the Nazi Code Affected Allied Naval Strategy During World War II
1988

A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories
2008