Naval category: 2015 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Launched in 2009, this annual is rapidly establishing a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other...
Sky Ships
A History of the Airship in the United States Navy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication.Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins,...
First Class
Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers...
NIS/NCIS San Diego
History Of The Naval Investigative Service And Naval Criminal Investigative Service In The San Diego Region
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In early 1966, the U.S. Naval Investigative Service (NIS) was created from resources of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Chartered to investigate major crime, fraud, and counterintelligence matters in the Department of the Navy, the NIS grew in numbers and responsibilities and became a worldwide...
Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.
Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense;...
by Claude Berube; John Rodgaard
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2005
Charles StewartÆs life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick OÆBrienÆs fictional hero, Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy captain and served longer (63 years) than any officer in American naval history. He commanded every type of warship,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
A companion to our Pearl Harbor Encyclopedia, this unique document provides definitions for thousands of Navy abbreviations and code words used during the period of Pearl Harbor and later during World War II.
The roads around Pearl Harbor were alive in wartime with vehicles marked "AdComPhibsPac."...
by William R. Stein, the PBY-Naval Air Museum
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island in Washington State has a long and storied history that began in 1942 and continues to the present day. Tucked away on an island that is its namesake, NAS Whidbey was originally conceptualized as a small support base for an existing air station in nearby Seattle....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study looks at the forward deployment of American naval forces to Australia. Per the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the U.S. Navy intends to increase its presence in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately,...
Kings of the Sea
Charles II, James II and the Royal Navy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
It has always been widely accepted that the Stuart kings, Charles II and James II, had an interest in the navy and more generally in the sea. Their enthusiastic delight in sailing, for instance, is often cited as marking the establishment of yachting in England. The major naval developments in their...
The Fleet at Flood Tide
America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower
Winner, Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States...
by Tom Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends...
by Donald M. Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the...
Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812
The Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small...