Mark Lardas
Author · 18 books
Mark Lardas holds a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but spent his early career at the Johnson Space Center doing Space Shuttle structural analysis, and space navigation. An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeller, Mark Lardas is currently a freelance writer in Palestine, Texas. He has written extensively about modelling as well as naval, maritime, and military history.
Series
Books

Constitution vs Guerriere
Frigates during the War of 1812
2009

American Light and Medium Frigates 1794-1836
2008

Chattanooga 1863
Grant and Bragg in Central Tennessee
2016

British Frigate vs French Frigate
1793-1814
2013

Rabaul 1943-44
Reducing Japan's great island fortress
2018

Roughshod Through Dixie
2006

Tsushima 1905
Death of a Russian Fleet
2018

South China Sea 1945
Task Force 38's bold carrier rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina
2023

Decatur's Bold and Daring Act - The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804
2011

Japan 1944-45
LeMay's B-29 strategic bombing campaign
2019

The Battleship Texas
2016

Ships of the American Revolutionary Navy
2009

American Heavy Frigates 1794-1826
2003

Great Lakes Warships 1812-1815
2012

African American Soldier in the Civil War
USCT 1862-66
2006

George Washington
2011

CSS Alabama vs USS Kearsarge
Cherbourg 1864
2011

Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis
Flamborough Head 1779
2012