Naval category: 2015 books
Strike Warfare
An Introduction to Non-Nuclear Attack by Air and Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Strike warfare is a term that is rarely used in the popular media even though reports of conflicts often describe its application or effects. Those brief snippets of information seldom provide a complete picture of what is happening at the time, and they almost never explain the operational or technical...
Lighthouses & Keepers
The U.S. Lighthouse Service and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighthouses in the United States. Among the most recognized structures of the maritime world, these lonely sentinels by the sea have long been the subject of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Fully illustrated and updated for 2017, this massive report provides details about hundreds of U.S. Navy systems - patrol craft, carriers, ships, aircraft, nuclear submarines, transports, helicopters, electronic systems, and much more. Every major ongoing project of the Navy is comprehensively described...
The Age of Fighting Sail
The Story of the Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
C.S.Forester’s distinguished account of the Anglo-American naval war of 1812. Age of Fighting Sail (1956) is a shrewd and skillful telling of a complex war that made it possible for a new republic to diminish the cock and swagger of a nation boasting one hundred years of sea triumphs. Britain invulnerable?...
Proudly We Served
The Men of the USS Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Few Americans know the history-changing story of the USS Mason, a World War II warship manned by an African-American crew that served as a role model for the integration of U.S. Navy ships. At a time when most blacks in the Navy were relegated to mess duties, the crew of the USS Mason escorted six convoys...
Canada's Bastions of Empire
Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria...
With Tegetthoff at Lissa
The Memoirs of an Austrian Naval Officer 1861-66
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The imperial Austrian navy which fought and won the signal victory of Lissa on 20 July 1866, during the so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866, has in recent years been subjected to more detailed scrutiny than has hitherto been its lot, and it is with an eye to following this trend that we present the...
Confrontation at Lepanto
Christendom vs. Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Like an angry lion, the Turkish menace growled at the frontiers of Europe. In 1453, the last remnant of the mighty Roman Empire was obliterated when Turkish forces overran Constantinople. Western civilization was being threatened by medieval Islam. By 1570, a huge Turkish fleet had begun to turn the...
Sea Flight
The Wartime Memoirs of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Hugh Popham joined the Fleet Air Arm in the summer of 1940 and was soon in training as a pilot at HMS Vincent and then Yeovilton; thereafter his wartime career as a naval pilot took him to the far corners of the world, notably to the Indian Ocean where he had to contend against the Japanese.
His...
Endgame
The U-Boat Inshore Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
By the time of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, the U-boats were a beaten force, hunted and harried wherever they appeared by Allied warships and aircraft. The U-boats proved to be little more than pinpricks against the landings, and advancing Anglo-American armies had driven them out of their...
Fight for the Sea
Naval Adventures from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This collection of popular naval stories covers the entire span of World War II, beginning when the British Royal Navy faced fascist forces on its own until the final Allied victory over the Japanese in 1945. Fight for the Sea offers a rich mixture of accounts about such large and well-known battles...
Stay the Rising Sun
The True Story of USS Lexington, Her Valiant Crew, and Changing the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Her crew called her the "Lady Lex" - see how her fierce battle turned the tide in the Allies' favor. In May 1942, the United States' first first naval victory against the Japanese in the Coral Sea was marred by the loss of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. Another carrier was nearly ready...
Red Mutiny
Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
In 1905 more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard the battleship Potemkin, one of the most powerful battleships in the world. Led by the charismatic firebrand Matyushenko, they risked their lives to take control of their ship and fly the red flag of revolution....
The Last Sentry
The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Providing inspiration for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet government. Valery Sablin, a brilliant young political officer, seized control of the...