Naval category: 2015 books
Oakville's Flower
The History of the HMCS Oakville
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The story of HMCS Oakville, a corvette that fought U-boats in WWII and remains a hero to its hometown in Oakville, Ontario.
This is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of HMCS Oakville, a Canadian World War II corvette that fought in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was one of the few...
In the Shadow of the Alabama
The British Foreign Office and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the Southern States during the American Civil War. As a consequence, the CSS Alabama narrowly escaped seizure by the British Government...
New Brunswick and the Navy
Four Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the corvettes and frigates in the 20th century, New Brunswick has played an important role in Canada's naval history....
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to feature a full-length flight deck was in service....
Tsushima 1905
Death of a Russian Fleet
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France and Russia divided the globe in the nineteenth century, but Japan was catching up. Its army and navy were retrained by Western powers and equipped with the latest weapons and ships. Japan...
Abandon Ship!
The Post-War Memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum RN
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Captain Tony McCrum’s naval career started in 1932. He survived the sinking of HMS Skipjack at Dunkirk and went on to serve on minesweepers and at sea during the landings at Salerno. His wartime experiences were recently published as Sunk by Stukas.
This book covers the second part of his...
The Royal Navy and the Arctic Convoys
A Naval Staff History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published here for the first time, this volume presents a superb range of insights into this crucial effort of the Second World War.
This Naval Staff History describes the vital role of the Arctic Convoys, 1941-1945 and was first issued by the Historical Section of the Admiralty as a confidential...
Beneath the Waves
The Life and Navy of Capt. Edward L. Beach, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
One of the U.S. Navy s best known submarine officers, Capt. Edward L. Beach, enjoyed fame both as a bestselling author and as a highly decorated naval officer. Not long after the success of his first novel Run Silent, Run Deep, which was later made into a major feature film, he commanded the first...
Girl at Sea
A Story of Courage, Strength, and Growth from One of the First Women to Serve on US Warships
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The true story of one woman’s ground-breaking Naval career on combatant warships, and her struggle to prove herself in a man’s world.
When the combat exclusion law was repealed in 1993, women in the military were allowed to select warfare specialties as their path for the first time in history....
The Battle of the River Plate
The First Naval Battle of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser – ‘I think it is a pocket battleship.’
It was. The Deutschland-class heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, marauder...
Big Gun Battles
Warship Duels of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The outcome of much of the maritime warfare in the Second World War was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making relatively recent warship types, the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters naval conflict. Yet despite this, there was a surprising number of traditional ship-to-ship...
Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
This volume brings together a set of scholarly, readable and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval mutinies of the 20th century, including Russia (1905), Brazil (1910), Austria (1918), Germany (1918), France (1918-19), Great Britain (1931), Chile (1931), the United States (1944), India (1946), China (1949), Australia, and Canada (19
Poseidon’s Warriors
Classical Naval Warfare 480–31 BC
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Poseidon's Warriors is a set of wargaming rules for large-scale naval actions between fleets of Classical galleys from the Greek and Persian clash at the battle of Salamis to the battle of Actium that decided the fate of Rome. With so many of these battles taking place around islands or in narrow...
by Thomas Hodgskin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Thomas Hodgskin was a member of the British Navy, and a socialist writer, critical of what he saw as the ills of capitalism. Later in his career, he wrote for The Economist. An Essay on Naval Discipline is a critical piece on the authoritarianism in the British Navy at the time.