Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Flotilla 13
Israeli Naval Commandos in the Red Sea, 1967-1973
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Flotilla 13 is the elite naval commando unit of the Israeli Defense Forces that specializes in maritime-related combat and counter-terrorist missions. To maintain secrecy, few of its missions have, until now, been made public. With this book, the unit s commander, Rear Adm. Ze ev Almog, unveils the amazing...
From the Dardanelles to Oran
Studies of the Royal Navy in War and Peace, 19151940
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
This collection of essays was first published in 1974, and the fact that it remains relevant today is a testament to Marder’s legacy as arguably the greatest naval historian of the 20th century. Readability is part of what made Marder such an excellent historian, and it is displayed perfectly in this...
Kaigun
Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously...
Battle Line
The United States Navy 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.S. fleet shrink under the pressure of arms limitation treaties and government economy and then grow again to a world-class force. The authors trace the Navy's evolution from a fleet centered...
Learning War
The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Learning War examines the U.S. Navy’s doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history’s greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions...
With Commodore Perry to Japan
The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personable account of Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser’s clerk of the Mississippi. The National Historic Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) -endorsed documentary edition provides excellent coverage of...
by Laura Stavridis
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Naval officers and enlisted personnel undergo extensive training to cope with the special demands of their duties at sea and ashore, but what about their spouses and children? This practical, one-of-a-kind guide fills the gap by helping families navigate the unique challenges of Navy life. Personal,...
The Great Wall at Sea, 2nd Edition
China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China s navy, one that continues to grow while the U.S. Navy shrinks. According to the author, Beijing is now giving increased attention to guarding its vital sea lanes because of the nation s growing dependence on maritime trade, especially...
Warships of the Napoleonic Era
Design, Development and Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of...
Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea
The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions. To imply that Hitler had a rational plan to win the war flies in the face of...
21st Century Mahan
Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today’s problems. This collection of five of Mahan’s essays, along with Benjamin Armstrong’s informative introductions,...
Passport Not Required
U.S. Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.S. citizens went to England and volunteered with the Royal Navy. Commissioned between September 1939 and November 1941, they fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and on a variety of fronts. While the history of Americans serving in the Royal Air Force...
A Different Kind of Victory
A Biogrpahy of Admiral Thomas C. Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart is important not only because it is the story of a man whose central guiding force in life was the U.S. Navy, but also because it is a study of some fifty-five significant years of American history. This book, based in part on the twenty-one volume Hart diary,...
West Wind, Flood Tide
The Battle of Mobile Bay
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
One of history's greatest naval engagements and the Civil War's bloodiest is examined for both its political ramifications and influence on naval tactics and ship design.