Naval category: 2015 books
by Michael Epkenhans
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849û1930), who joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 as a midshipman, was chiefly responsible for rapidly developing and enlarging the German Navy, especially the High Seas Fleet, from 1897 until the years immediately prior to the First World War. Epkenhans uses newly discovered documents...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this exceptional book examines the watershed period in carrier development that occurred immediately following World War II, when design advances were made that would be crucial to the centrality in national-security policy...
by John Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.
When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and...
A Century of Naval Aviation 1909-2009
The Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding color to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical take-off, and in operations, including the sinking of...
by David Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Compiled by the author of Jane’s Air Forces of the World, this book is a must for naval experts and enthusiasts. In one volume the reader will find the composition and details of all naval elements of a staggering 137 nations’ armed forces including paramilitary organizations as the US Coast Guard...
by Don Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The War of 1812, often known also as the Second War of American Independence, was hugely influential in shaping the United States as we know it today. It was fought between the U.S. and Great Britain and its provinces—Upper and Lower Canada—with France acting as a thorn in both of their sides....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This important 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study examines the U.S. Navy's current strategy in the Persian Gulf and assesses which aspect of that strategy—deterrence or assurance—makes a more significant contribution...
War Letters 1914-1918, Vol. 2
From a Midshipman at Sea with the Royal Navy during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This is the second book in the War Letters 1914–1918 series. It is based on the letters of sixteen-year-old Philip Malet de Carteret, a midshipman with the Royal Navy who sailed with HMS Canopus during the First World War.
Philip's letters describe his experience of the Battles of Coronel...
A Signal Victory
The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812. Made famous by the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry's comment, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," the battle marked the U.S. Navy's first successful...
The Siege of Tsingtau
The German-Japanese War 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germanys Micronesian islands. Japans naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States...
Striking the Hornets' Nest
Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Striking the Hornets’ Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy’s most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world’s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy’s aviation activities...
Home Squadron
The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897. At the beginning of this period, the warships assigned to this station were collectively administered by a rear-admiral, but were operationally...
Nothing Too Daring
A Biography of Commodore David Porter, 1783-1843
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Commodore David Dixon Porter made history when he took the Essex into the Pacific and crippled the British whaling industry in the War of 1812. He was the first to suggest that the U.S. Navy force open Japan. He was also court-martialed and convicted on charges arising out of his unauthorized invasion...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War. It provides the overall political and economic...