Naval category: 2015 books
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the Hosho. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it experimented with its carriers, perfecting their design and construction. As a result, by the time Japan entered World War...
Yangtze Patrol
The U.S. Navy in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In this entertaining history of the Yangtze Patrol, Tolley gives a lively presentation of the Chinese political situation over the past century and describes the bombing of the Panay, the siege of Shanghai, the battle of Wanhsien, and the Nanking incident. He also offers a liberal serving of colorful anecdotes and numerous period photographs.
Nelson to Vanguard
Warship Design and Development 1923–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Nelson to Vanguard is the third volume in D K Brown’s bestselling series on warship design and development looks at the Royal Navy’s response to the restrictions placed on it by the Washington Naval Treaties in the inter-war years, and analyses the fleet that was constructed to fight the Second...
Down to the Sea
An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's...
by Jerry Copas
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The USS Shenandoah was the pride of the American Navy in 1925 and America's first rigid dirigible. Her name is a Native American word often said to mean "Daughter of the Stars." While performing a publicity tour in the Midwest, the ship was ripped to pieces by a violent storm. Fourteen men...
Around the World Submerged
The Voyage of the Triton
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L. Beach, planned a routine shakedown cruise in the North Atlantic. Two weeks before the scheduled cruise, however, Beach was summoned to Washington and told of the immediate necessity...
Beyond the Barrier
The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Without discrediting the expedition's success or Admiral Richard Byrd's leadership, this book makes clear for the first time that the admiral was not the saintly hero he and the press depicted. A provocative reassessment of an American hero, but a scrupulously objective book that makes a major contribution to history.
Unrestricted Warfare
How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing extensively from now declassified files, Japanese...
Hunt And Kill U-505 And The Battle Of The Atlantic
U-505 and the Battle of the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2004
One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war U-505 was transported to Chicago where today 1 000 000 visitors a year pass...
US Cruisers 1883–1904
The birth of the steel navy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
By the end of the Civil War the US Navy was the most advanced in the world, but in subsequent years America's naval might dwindled. However, in the 1880s a 'New Navy' was born and at the forefront of its fleet were the mighty cruisers. Naval historian Lawrence Burr details how these cruisers allowed...
German Light Cruisers of World War II
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River and in the first few months both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla, converting existing riverboats for naval use. These ships were transformed into powerful naval weapons despite a lack of resources, trained...
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The seventeenth century saw the transformation of Britain from a minor state on the fringes of Europe into a global economic power, whose interests were protected and promoted by the largest navy in the world. The character of this navy was forged by a bloody civil war, three fiercely disputed conflicts...
by Julian Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Unlike Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain’s great maritime strategist Sir Julian Corbett believed that victory in war does not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this has never been the case. Corbett’s keen analysis of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 as presented in this...