Naval category: 2015 books
The Naval Route to the Abyss
The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major cause of the Great War, it has become emblematic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study asks whether or not the U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) are sufficiently prepared to operate together if conflict escalates in an area of forward-deployed...
by Conrad Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Now firmly established as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, this annual combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects,...
by David Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
ABC’s of Naval Weaponry sets sail with the historical vessels and weapons that made naval power what it is. From ancient war ships, to the age of sail, to iron clads, to the modern age. Done in the style of a children’s ABC book, with a unique vessel or weapon selected for each letter, and its...
Sea of Thunder
Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo...
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war during World War II: Okinawa.
April 1945. The end...
Guiding Lights
Monuments and Memorials at the U.S. Naval Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the Academy's monuments and memorials. To personalize the memorials and the naval figures they honor, she has included letters, firsthand battle reports, Lucky Bag commentaries, award...
Project Azorian
The CIA and the Raising of the K-129
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under the...
by Frederick Chamier
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamier’s story-telling skills but it is wrong – the...
Storm Over Leyte
The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II—the greatest naval battle in history.
As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing...
The Rules of the Game
Jutland and British Naval Command
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme,...
by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Of the many campaigns in the long history of Britain, naval and otherwise, there have been few more momentous than the campaign in the Mediterranean in 1804-5 culminating in the battle of Trafalgar. They spawned a national hero in the figure of heroic lord Nelson, one-armed and blind in one eye, dying...
Broadsides
The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Praise for BROADSIDES
"Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immortality upon him; envision with Mahan the storm-tossed and ever-watchful ships-of-the-line that kept England secure from invasion; wonder in...