Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Capturing Jonathan Pollard
How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified...
Beyond the Barrier
The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Without discrediting the expedition's success or Admiral Richard Byrd's leadership, this book makes clear for the first time that the admiral was not the saintly hero he and the press depicted. A provocative reassessment of an American hero, but a scrupulously objective book that makes a major contribution to history.
Female Tars
Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The wives and female guests of commissioned officers often went to sea in the sailing ships of the British Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries, but there were other women on board as well, rarely mentioned in print. Suzanne Stark has written the story of the women who lived on the lower decks....
Red Crew
Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan’s Coast Guard
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,”...
The Galloping Ghost
The Extraordinary Life of Submarine Legend Eugene
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Eugene Fluckey was one of the great naval heroes of World War II. His exploits as captain of the submarine USS Barb revolutionized undersea warfare and laid the groundwork for a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine fleet. He retired as a rear admiral and was awarded numerous presidential, congressional,...
Refighting the Pacific War
An Alternative History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Refighting the Pacific War presents the viewpoints of more than thirty historians, authors, and veterans regarding what happened and what might have happened if events in the Pacific had unfolded differently during World War II. Contributors to this alternative history include the noted military historians...
Master of Seapower
A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This is the first time in paperback for this standard biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who was the controversial architect of the American victory in the Pacific. Once asked if it was he who said, 'When they get in trouble they send for the sonsabitches,' King replied that he was not, but that...
by Richard C. Knott
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Thanks to the PBY's daring pilots and their effective tactics, the slow outdated Catalina patrol bombers became the scourge of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific during World War II. Painted black and hunting at night, the Black Cats, as they were called, are credited with sinking or disabling hundreds...
Empires in the Balance
Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The respected British military historian H. P. Willmott presents the first of a three-volume appraisal of the strategic policies of the countries involved in the Pacific War. Remarkable in its scope and depth of research, his thoughtful analysis covers the whole range of political, economic, military,...
To Crown the Waves
The Great Navies of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine,...
The Dragon's War
Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.S. Naval Academy professor Maochun Yu provides Western readers with the first detailed account of military and intelligence operations conducted inside China by foreign powers between 1937 and 1945. He also addresses the profound...
Ask the Chief
Backbone of the Navy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Whenever sailors are confronted with 'unsolvable' problems--be it a fouled anchor or paint that won't dry--they often throw up their hands and exclaim, 'We'd better ask the Chief.' That refrain, heard for generations throughout the Navy, is the theme for Jack Leahy's newest book. Written at sea, his...
Lady in the Navy
A Personal Reminiscence
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
When legislation was passed in 1948 giving women permanent status in the regular and reserve Navy, it was largely due to the efforts of Joy Bright Hancock, the author of this revealing memoir. Her prominent role was acknowledged at the time by the secretary of the navy who credited her ideals, energy,...
Black Ops, Vietnam
An Operational History of MACVSOG
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA....