Naval category: 2015 books
Red Star Under the Baltic
A Firsthand Account of Life on board a Soviet Submarine in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Red Star Under The Baltic is the graphic memoir of a Soviet submariner during his years at sea in the Baltic during the Second World War. Not only is this a superb record of the appalling conditions endured on these basic craft, but a very human account detailing the comradeship and tensions among...
At Close Quarters
PT Boats in the United States Navy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Small though they were, PT boats played a key role in World War II, carrying out an astonishing variety of missions where fast, versatile, and strongly armed vessels were needed. Called "weapons of opportunity," they met the enemy at closer quarters and with greater frequency than any other type of surface...
Fighting for MacArthur
The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Phillipines
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Fighting for MacArthur is the only book that focuses on the role of the Navy and Marine Corps during the 1941-42 defense of the Philippines. The book includes the most detailed account ever published of the Japanese bombing of the Cavite Navy Yard outside Manila on 10 December 1941, the worst destruction...
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow
Volume I: The Road to War 1904-1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To
by B.B. Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Admiral Schofield’s accounts of the Taranto and Bismarck battles make for unforgettable reading.
The author traces the development of British naval aviation from its early beginnings in 1912, through the First World War and the frustrations of the inter-war years. The November 1940 attack...
Dark Seas
The Battle of Cape Matapan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The most decisive engagement between surface ships in the Mediterranean during World War II was undoubtedly the Battle of Cape Matapan (27–29 March, 1941). The Battle Summary, written post war, draws on reports of action on both sides. Reproduced in full in Dark Seas, this is a detailed and thoughtful...
Great Powers, Grand Strategies
The New Game in the South China Sea
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This book focuses on grand strategic approaches to the South China Sea dispute by major powers in the region -- those capable of projecting force to the South China Sea and abroad. It explores international dimensions of the South China Sea dispute, and how military, diplomatic, and economic strategies...
The Dardanelles Disaster
Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Acclaimed naval military expert Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles prolonged the war by two years, led to the Russian Revolution, forced Britain to the brink of starvation, and contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East. With never before published information on...
Carriers at War
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners.
The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2...
by Dr Raffaele D’Amato
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
The birth of the mighty Roman Navy was anchored in the Romans' extraordinary ability to absorb and perfect the technology of other states and empires. This is the story of the design, development and operation of the Republican Roman warship in the age of the conquest of the Mediterranean, from the...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coastline. As its merchant marine dramatically grew, admirals believed that the navy should take a more...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This official AEC-sponsored history of the Naval nuclear propulsion program provides an authoritative account of the historic effort to develop the first atomic powered submarines and carriers under the celebrated leadership of Hyman Rickover.
Subjects and topics covered include: Hyman Rickover,...
German Battlecruisers of World War One
Their Design, Construction and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy’s battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally armored cruiser,” the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the great pitched...
by Andrew C. Jampoler
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
On August 25, 1833, the British convict transport Amphitrite, filled with more than one hundred women prisoners and their children, together with a crew of sixteen, left London for the convict colony in New South Wales. Less than a week later, all but three died when a savage storm battered their ship...