Naval Institute Press: 579 books
The Battle for Britain
Interservice Rivalry between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, 19091940
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The book is a short review of British air and naval power from 1909 -1940 and represents an attack upon independent” airpower. When Bleriot became the first man to fly the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine in 1909, it seemed to mark the beginning of a fundamental decline in British...
Gear Up, Mishaps down
The Evolution of Naval Aviation Safety, 1950-2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Less than five years after Naval Aviation had been in the forefront of the forces that defeated Imperial Japan, it found itself in serious trouble. The force had been slashed in people and numbers and growing national sentiment supported by no less than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs argued that...
Naval Innovation for the 21st Century
The Office of Naval Research Since the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The Office of Naval Research, known widely as ONR, was formed in 1946 largely to support the pursuit of basic science to help ensure future U.S. naval dominance-and as such, it set the model for the subsequently created National Science Foundation. But everything changed after the Cold War. The U.S....
Tennessee Patriot
The Naval Career of Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence, U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Bill Lawrence served his country for thirty-seven years in a remarkable naval career filled with triumphs and adversities. A naval aviator and test pilot who commanded a fighter squadron in the Vietnam War, he was shot down in combat and held by the North Vietnamese at the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison...
Asian Maritime Strategies
Navigating Troubled Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book is concerned with both the national security concerns of Asian maritime nations and the security of the Asian maritime commons. These are defined as the Pacific and Indian Oceans and associated seas, bays, and gulfs, with their included sea lines of communication (SLOCs). The most useful geographical...
by Paul G. Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas. This book offers for the first time a balanced history of the naval war as a whole, viewed from the perspective of all participants in all major...
Erich Raeder
Admiral of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
From 1928 to 1943, Erich Raeder led the German navy during the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and through World War II, yet until now there has not been a full-length biography written about him. This study draws on archival resources and the rich scholarship of German...
Harnessing the Sky
Frederick "Trap" Trapnell, the U.S. Navy's Aviation Pioneer, 1923-1952
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Harnessing the Sky is one of the best untold stories in 100 years of naval aviation. This biography fills an important void in the history of flight test and explores the legacy of the man who has been called the godfather of current naval aviation.”Vice Admiral Frederick M. Trapnell’s calculated...
21st Century Sims
Innovation, Education, and Leadership for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
For more than two decades at the beginning of the 20th century William S. Sims was at the forefront of naval affairs. From the revolution in naval gunnery that he led as a junior officer, to his advocacy for the Dreadnaught style all-big-gun battleship, to his development of torpedo boat and destroyer...
by Castex
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Admiral Raoul Castex is France’s most important modern naval strategist. Military historian Eugenia Kiesling offers the essence of Castex’s original five volume study, Théories Stratégiques, in a useful one-volume abridgment and a very readable translation. It emphasizes the admiral’s method...
by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what Friedman’s Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It traces the growing aerial threat from its inception in WWI and the response of each of the major navies down...
Ungentle Goodnights
Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to describe the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831...
A Tale Of Two Navies
Geopolitics, Technology, and Strategy in the United States Navy and the Royal Navy, 1960-2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book describes and analyses in hitherto unexplored ways the unique relationship of the United States Navy and the Royal Navy as exemplars of the US-UK Special Relationship” in the context of strategy, operations, technology, and intelligence. A continuous thread of 55 years of maritime strategic...
Neglected Skies
The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922–42
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Neglected Skies is a reconsideration of one of the Second World War’s most forgotten naval engagements – the abortive clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy’s First Air Fleet (Kido Butai) to the south of Ceylon, over a period of ten days in late March/early April...