Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Fire from the Sky
Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
This is the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron of the Vietnam War. The squadron was established "in country" to support the fast, pugnacious river patrol boats of the brown water navy. Flying combat-worn Hueys borrowed from the Army, the...
The U.S. Navy Against the Axis
Surface Combat, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The U.S. Navy against the Axis tells the story of the U.S. Navy’s surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. It advances the thesis that the fleet’s role in America’s ultimate victory was more crucial than commonly realized and that it holds many lessons for today’s...
Moon Men Return
Uss Hornet and the Recovery of the Apollo 11 Astronauts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The splashdown and recovery of Apollo 11 on 24 July 1969 was a historic event, which fulfilled President John F. Kennedy s national goal of placing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth by the end of the 1960s. This book tells the dramatic story of the USS Hornet s recovery of the astronauts...
by Douglas V. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy aviation, this book details the history of U.S. Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy s first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval...
Joe Rochefort's War
The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. Navy’s decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and his key role in breaking the Imperial Japanese Navy’s main code before the Battle of Midway. It brings together the disparate threads of Rochefort’s life and...
Flying Black Ponies
The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The tragic, the comic, the terrifying, the poignant are all part of the story of the Black Pony pilots who distinguished themselves in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. Flying their turboprop Broncos down and dirty, low and slow, they killed more of the enemy and saved more allied lives with...
The Power and the Glory
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The Power and the Glory is the third novel in William C. Hammond’s rousing nautical fiction series. This volume is set in the late 1790s during the Quasi-War with France and offers readers a look at the new American Navy during the Age of Fighting Sail. Following in the wake of his previous novels,...
To the Walls of Derne
William Eaton, the Tripoli Coup, and the End of the First Barbary War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Set amid the backdrop of political infighting, interservice jealousy, and diplomatic intrigue, To the Walls of Derne is the story of William Eaton’s effort to topple Bashaw Yusuf Karamanli, the ruler of Tripoli, and replace him with his brother, Hamet, who was sympathetic to America. Coming in the...
U-Boat Ace
The Story of Wolfgang Luth
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. At one time or another he operated in almost every theater of the undersea war, from...
Pushing the Envelope
The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
First published in 1994, this stirring autobiography of a fighter and test pilot takes readers full throttle through Carl's imposing list of "firsts." Beginning with his World War II career, he gained such commendations as first Marine Corps ace, among the first Marines ever to fly a helicopter, and...
Saltwater Leadership
A Primer on Leadership for the Junior Sea-Service Officer
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Designed for busy junior officers in the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine, this primer teaches the basics of leadership in five sequential steps. It begins with a useful overview of major leadership studies, followed by an informative summary of the wisdom of 380 senior sea-going officers...
Strike Warfare
An Introduction to Non-Nuclear Attack by Air and Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Strike warfare is a term that is rarely used in the popular media even though reports of conflicts often describe its application or effects. Those brief snippets of information seldom provide a complete picture of what is happening at the time, and they almost never explain the operational or technical...
Lighthouses & Keepers
The U.S. Lighthouse Service and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighthouses in the United States. Among the most recognized structures of the maritime world, these lonely sentinels by the sea have long been the subject of...
The Aden Effect
A Connor Stark Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Alpha team was gone, dead to a man. A few crewmen from Bravo team had been blown overboard. Stark reentered the pilothouse and checked the radio hoping to get out one last mayday, but the radio, like the crew, was dead
.Connor Stark was a pariah, a man without a country, a former naval officer whose...