Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Destined for Glory
Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier Airpower
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
On 4 June 1942, three squadrons of U.S. Navy Dauntless dive bombers destroyed Japan's carrier force at Midway and changed the course of the Pacific war. As Wildenberg demonstrates in this book, the key ingredient to the Navy's success was the planning and training devoted to the tactic of dive bombing....
First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign
Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers though the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picking up the story after Midway, the author presents a scrupulously accurate account of what happened,...
by Barrett Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Popularly known as the Douglas Dauntless, the U.S. Navy's SBD dive bomber was well named. Though considered obsolete at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dauntless turned the tide of war in the Pacific with the destruction of four Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway, making its mark in...
by Steve Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy fighter pilots-Jimmie Thach, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmy Flatley-who developed sweeping changes in aerial combat tactics during World War II. While O'Hare and Flatley were instrumental in making the "weave" a success, Thach was its theoretical innovator,...
Pacific War Remembered
An Oral History Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In this remarkable oral history collection, thirty-three participants in the turbulent epic that began with the day of infamy at Pearl Harbor and ended with the signing of the surrender documents in Tokyo Harbor tell their stories. Their remembrances of heartbreak, frustration, heroism, hope, and triumph...
by Julian Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Unlike Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain’s great maritime strategist Sir Julian Corbett believed that victory in war does not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this has never been the case. Corbett’s keen analysis of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 as presented in this...
by Douglas Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Coast Guardsmen who personify the service's core values. The author highlights the contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as Reserves,...
Overdue and Presumed Lost
The Story of the USS Bullhead
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The USS Bullhead was the last American naval vessel lost in World War II. This is the submarine's history - from launch to disappearance - as told by the only war correspondent allowed on a wartime submarine patrol. Narrow escapes from floating mines, diving to avoid enemy aircraft, and a daring sortie...
In Many a Strife
General Gerald C. Thomas and the U. S. Marine Corps, 1917-1956
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
A veteran of both world wars and the Korean War, Gen. Gerald C. Thomas helped change the Marine Corps in the twentieth century. Though not as well-known as John Lejeune, Chesty Puller, and A. A. Vandegrift, he was, as this book clearly demonstrates, responsible for the transformation of the Marines...
Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke
The Story of a Fighting Sailor
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Burke's World War II heroics and unprecedented three terms as chief of naval operations are recounted in this stirring biography.
Clydebank Battlecruisers
Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty HMS Hood, the largest warship of her day. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of...
Lion in the Bay
The British Invasion of the Chesapeake, 1813-14
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is the story of the War of 1812 like no other, brought to life in narrative form with pinpoint historical details.As the War of 1812 raged on the high seas and along the Canadian border, the British decided to strike at the heart of the United States, the relatively undefended area of the Chesapeake...
Phase Line Green
The Battle for Hue, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The bloody monthlong battle for the Citadel in Hue pitted U.S. Marines against an entrenched North Vietnamese Army force. By official accounts it was a tactical and moral victory for the Marines and the United States. But here survivor Nicholas Warr describes with urgency and outrage the Marines' savage...
The Battleship Builders
Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more...