Naval category: 2015 books
Harbors and High Seas
An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This companion for fans of the Napoleonic sea sagas offers maps of the novels’ streets, seas, and coasts, and much more.
The tall-masted sailing ships of the early nineteenth century were the technological miracles of their day, allowing their crews to traverse the seas with greater speed...
by Peter B. Mersky; M. T. Wordell; E.N. Seiler; Keith Ayling
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.S. Navy fighter squadron during the invasion of French North Africa in World War II. Lieutenants Wordell and Seiler, with the help of journalist Keith Ayling, vividly recount the exploits of their fellow...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
During World War II the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the forefront of submarine technology. It fielded the largest pre-nuclear submarines in the world, some capable of carrying floatplane bombers, which operated alongside fast combat vessels and midget submarines, all equipped with the best torpedoes...
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
This title follows from New Vanguard 51: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45 (1) and charts the continuing development of the U-boat in German service, including the evolution of the Type IX as a long range 'cruiser' intended for solo operations in distant waters. Also covered is the revolutionary Type...
Under a Blood Red Sun
The remarkable story of PT boats in the Philippines and the rescue of General MacArthur
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
During the opening days of World War II in the Pacific, a small group of American sailors in the Philippines were propelled into the forefront of the fighting. They were manned with six small wooden torpedo (PT) boats and led by a courageous, larger-than-life character in Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley....
by Lester Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over...
by Peter Oldham
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The battle for the possession of the villages of Messines Ridge, Messines, Wytchaete, St. Eloi, took place in 1914-17, and the final battle for Messines in 1918. The 1917 Battle of Messines was preceded by 19 giant mine explosions and was the biggest military mining effort in history. This book gives...
Voices from the Carpathia
Rescuing RMS Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The story of Titanic from the little-considered point of view of the passengers on the rescue vessel CarpathiaWhen Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only vessel to reach the scene in time to save...
The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2000
On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters...
The Real Cruel Sea
The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods...
by John Newton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
John Newton is now best remembered as an Anglican clergyman and the author of the hymn Amazing Grace.
For the first thirty years of his life, however, he was engrossed in the slave trade. His father planned for him to take up a position as slave master on a West Indies plantation but he was instead...
Sea of Gray
The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept byShenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea
The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge...
The H. L. Hunley
The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. Not until World War I—half a century later—would a submarine again accomplish such a feat. But also perishing that moonlit night, vanishing...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Mark Lardas explores the origins of American warships, primarily light and medium frigates, built for the Continental Navy during the years 1776–1783. This was the first navy of the United States and much of the fleet was comprised of ships that had been modified from existing vessels, converted...