Naval category: 2015 books
Wings for the Fleet
A Narrative of Naval Aviation's Early Development, 1910-1916
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The men who ventured into the air in the Navy’s first frail aircraft were not only daring-they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value. This is the story of their trials, tragedies,...
Whitey
The Story of Rear Admiral E.L. Feightner, a Naval Fighter Ace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
This book is a long-awaited biography of one of the Navy’s last surviving World War II aces, and one of the Navy’s most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner, like so many of his generation, was in the van of the huge group of young men...
A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War
Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the preeminent land power of the day, Sparta. Only Athens’ superior fleet, her ‘wooden walls’, by protecting her vital supply routes allowed her to survive. It also allowed...
The Age of Titans
The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of Olympias,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Vietnam War allied naval barrier operations to interdict the enemy infiltration of men and supplies coming across the Cambodian border into the Mekong Delta region was successful only...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This publication, The Russian Navy - A Historic Transition, is intended to provide the reader with a basic introduction to the Russian Navy and an appreciation of current developments that...
by B. Perez Galdos
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This is a concise but comprehensive account of the famous Battle of Trafalgar written by a participant who fought there. Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but a select few have been celebrated like the Battle of Trafalgar, one of the most important...
As We Recall
Reminiscences of the Naval Academy Class of 1952
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
As We Recall is the first book of its kind. A collection of reminiscences written by members of the U.S. Naval Academy class of 1952, it is a testament to the value of a Naval Academy education. Some stories are of combat in Korea, exploits in space, aerial combat over Vietnam, or development of major...
Dreadnought
The Ship that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The years before World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of maritime warfare. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
The Naval History and Heritage Command published this history to enhance our understanding of the pivotal role played by the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific from World War II through 2010. This project is in keeping with the Command's ongoing efforts to provide naval personnel with historical...
Quarterdeck and Bridge
Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This superb collection of biographical essays tells the story of the U.S. Navy through the lives of the officers who forged its traditions. The essayists are leading naval historians who assess the careers of these men and their impact on the naval service, from the Continental Navy of the American Revolution to the nuclear Navy of the Cold War.
Stephen Decatur
A Life Most Bold and Daring
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. His short and dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy told by the noted historian and author of some twenty books, Spencer Tucker. Decatur's raid into Tripoli Harbor in 1804 to burn...
by Piotr Olender
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This new book covers the Sino-Japan Naval War 1894-1895, a little-known part of late 19thC naval history.
The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of continuous...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines the role of the Navy in the protection of shipping, the core mission of any navy. Despite this, over the past century, the capital ship primacy of Mahan and offensive ethos of Nelson have repeatedly...