Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Before Jutland
The Naval War in Northern European Waters, August 1914February 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Before Jutland is an effort to understand what happened at sea in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic. The book is an extensively revised and extended version of the author’s 1984 work The King’s...
The Captain from Connecticut
The Life and Naval Times of Isaac Hull
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The Captain from Connecticut is the definitive biography of the man who became a national hero as the commander of the USS Constitution in her dramatic victory over HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812. While Isaac Hull’s outstanding seamanship was in evidence throughout his career, Maloney makes the case...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This collection of essays demonstrates the critical role of Sir Julian Corbett (1854-1922) in the development of maritime strategy and sea power theory in the early 20th century. His close connections with Alfred T Mahan and William S Sims helped reinforce the trans-Atlantic axis of sea power theory...
John Paul Jones
Fighter for Freedom and Glory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
This is the true life story of the Scottish gardener’s son, John Paul, who became America’s greatest naval hero, John Paul Jones. British midshipman, African slaver, traveling actor, merchant captain, accused of murder and suspected of freebooting-this was John Paul. Captain in Washington’s Continental...
British Battleships, 1889-1904
New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This volume completes the reissue of R. A. Burt’s magnificent three-volume history of British battleships, and it covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. In this new volume, the author presents full details of design and construction, armament,...
Flash Point North Korea
The Pueblo and EC-121 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
During a dark period of U.S. military history in the late 1960s, North Korean forces captured an American naval vessel and shot down an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, taking the lives of thirty-one U.S. sailors and Marines and striking a damaging blow to American honor. This look back to that earlier...
Proceed to Peshawar
The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains, and of a previously untold Military and Naval Intelligence Mission along about 800 miles of the Durand Line in World War II. The American officers passed through the Tribal Areas and the princely states of the North-West Frontier Province, and...
Rough Waters
Sovereignty and the American Merchant Flag
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book traces the evolution of the role of the U.S. Merchant ship flag, and the U.S. merchant fleet itself, from the earliest days of the American Republic to the present. The book shows how the protection of the U.S. flag aboard merchant ships was often the cause for U.S. naval engagements, ranging...
Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696 - 1860
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Peter the Great created the Russian navy from nothing, but it soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from Europe. During the 18th century it was the third largest navy in the world yet its history, and especially...
Cruise of the Lanikai
Incitement to War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "The Hurricane." Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen...
Far China Station
The U.S. Navy in Asian Waters, 1800-98
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This was the first study to put 19th century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective. Johnson examines the origins of the East India Squadron, defines its import role in the implementation of foreign policy and describes the dangers routinely faced by the squadron’s...
Amirs, Admirals & Desert Sailors
Bahrain, the U.S. Navy, and the Arabian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Host to the U.S. Navy for nearly six decades, Bahrain has been a steadfast American ally in the turbulent Middle East. Its unique relationship with the United States evolved through a series of friendships between Bahrain s ruling Al Khalifa royal family and top U.S. Navy flag officers assigned to the...
The Spectral Tide
True Ghost Stories of the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Now, for the first time, comes a long-overdue book that presents all of the U.S. Navy's rich cargo of paranormal phenomena. There is the great Stephen Decatur, whose mournful apparition still stalks the halls of his famous home, said to be one of the most haunted spots in Washington, D.C. USS The Sullivans,...
Hostage on the Yangtze
Britain, China, and the Amethyst Crisis of 1949
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In 1949, as the Chinese Civil War was about to enter its final, explosive stage, the small British frigate HMS Amethyst was sent on a dangerous mission up the Yangtze River to protect British citizens in Nanking. En route it was attacked by the Chinese Communists and held hostage on the river for several...