Naval category: 2015 books
Fortune's Favorite
Sir Charles Douglas and the Breaking of the Line
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When you think of the great heroes of the 18th Century Royal Navy, you would probably think of Horatio Nelson, possibly Sir Sidney Smith; but would the name Sir Charles Douglas spring to mind? If it doesn’t—it should.
Sir Charles Douglas played a pivotal role in many of the most important...
The British Pacific Fleet
The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines how innovations in technology and doctrine can help trigger revolutions in military affairs by studying historical cases of how technologically advanced systems found their way from the drawing...
The British Carrier Strike Fleet
After 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
As a follow-up to the highly regarded British Pacific Fleet, David Hobbs looks at the post-World War II fortunes of the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy-its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of ignorant politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form...
The British Battleship
1906-1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Norman Friedman brings a new perspective to an ever-popular subject in The British Battleship: 19061946. With a unique ability to frame technologies within the context of politics, economics, and strategy, he offers unique insight into the development of the Royal Navy capital ships. With plans of...
Seapower
A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century.
The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds...
First Rate
The Greatest Warship of the Age of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They...
Broadsides
Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity – encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is an important Marine Corps publication about Expeditionary Warrior 2013, the latest iteration of the Marine Corps' Title 10 wargame. It seeks to provide a venue that spurs innovation for the force of the future....
by Piotr Olender
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fought in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, it originated in emerging 19th-century Balkan nationalism....
British Battleships of World War One
New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1986; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books on the secondhand market.
It presents, in one superb volume, the complete technical history of British capital...
by Lawrence Sondhaus
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Europe ruled the waves for most of the modern era and even when its navies were eclipsed in size by the US force, they continued to dominate world wars. In this unique history of Europe's naval forces, Larry Sondhaus charts the development of naval warfare from the transition to steam to recent...
The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period
An Operational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading...
Master and Madman
The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Anthony Lockwood’s story is at the heart of the Georgian Navy though the man himself has never taken centre stage in its history. His naval career – described by himself as ‘twenty five years’ incessant peregrination’ – followed a somewhat erratic course but almost exactly spanned the...