Norman Polmar: 11 books
Death of the USS Thresher
The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . . have positive angle . . . attempting to blow . . . Then came the sounds...
by Norman Polmar; Christopher Cavas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
From historys earliest days men have gone down to seaon logs, then boats, and, subsequently, ships. Norman Polmar and Christopher Cavas maneuver in Most Wanted™ style to find the best and worst of the admirals, ships, inventions, submarines, torpedoes, and aircraft that have fought on, over, and under...
Aircraft Carriers
A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations,...
Spyplanes
The Illustrated Guide to Manned Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft from World War I to Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as "eyes in the sky."
For as long as there has been sustained heavier-than-air human flight, airplanes have been used to gather information about our adversaries. Less than a decade after the...
by Thomas B. Allen; Norman Polmar
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. NavyÆs nuclear propulsion program and revived his career,...
by Norman Polmar; K. J. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversaryÆs homeland,...
DEFCON-2
Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The closest we've ever come to the end of the world
"DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar and Gresham sketch the personalities...
by Brigette Polmar; Norman Polmar
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Long a family-friendly tourist destination and educational mecca for students, Washington, DC, is immediately recognizable for its world-class museums and monuments riddled with symbolism. Washingtons other signature stamppoliticsattracts visitors of a different kind. Power players from around the globe...
Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign
The Rolling Thunder Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved...
Project Azorian
The CIA and the Raising of the K-129
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under the...
Ship of Gold
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Ship of Gold is an exciting, fast-paced tale of action, intrigue, and adventure on the high seas-told with the ringing authenticity only firsthand knowledge can impart.
In 1945, the U.S. submarine Tigerfish mistakenly torpedoed and sunk a Japanese cargo ship. The ship, allegedly carrying supplies...