Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Saving Big Ben
The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Father Joseph T. O'Callahan was the first military chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor. An unlikely war hero, the bespectacled math professor who became the U.S. Navy's first Jesuit chaplain, served in combat in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He was on board the USS Franklin, an aircraft...
"A Magnificent Fight"
The Battle for Wake Island
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This book recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The author uses extensive Japanese materials--many never before used or available-- to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama.
Black Rock and Blue Water
The Wreck of the Royal Mail Ship Rhone in St. Narciso's Hurricane of October 1867
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands’ population...
People's Liberation Army Navy
Combat System Technology, 1949-2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Rare among books on weapon systems technologies, this work traces China s development from a coastal defense force of obsolete ships with crude weapons to its current complex missile catamarans and Aegis-like destroyers with vertical launch weapons and long-range cruise missiles. As the only book devoted...
We Were Pirates
A Torpedoman's Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
A sailor’s extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedoman’s perspective. Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was everywhere...
At the Dragon's Gate
With the OSS in the Far East
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In the early days of World War II, a young Marine named Charles Fenn was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for undercover operations in the China-Burma-India theatre. Fenn knew exactly what it took to get the job done. His wartime exploits are the stuff of legend, but not even his OSS...
Imperial Crossroads
The Great Powers and the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
For centuries the world’s Great Powers, along with their fleets, armies, and intelligence services, have been drawn to the Persian Gulf region. Lying at the junction of three great continents Asia, Europe, and Africa and sitting athwart the oceanic trade routes that link the cities of the world,...
by Theodore C. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
by James E. Wise, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents. The dramatic accounts--including those of a British sailor who survived 133 days at sea on an open raft and a German sailor who spent 28 hours in the ocean without...
From Kabul to Baghdad and Back
The U.S. at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates. It also evaluates the strategic execution of those military campaigns to identify...
by Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
In 2010, U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) in Afghanistan began a new and innovative program to fight the Taliban insurgency using the movement's structure and strategy against it. The Village Stability Operations/Afghan Local Police initiative consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL...
Big Guns and Brave Men
Mobile Artillery Observers and the Battle for Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Although it was the largest and final battle of the Pacific War, the Battle for Okinawa has long been overshadowed by other dramatic events in 1945. The books that have been written about it emphasize the role of infantrymen, armor, and U.S. Marines. This work takes a fresh perspective and focuses on...
Embassy to the Eastern Courts
America's Secret First Pivot Toward Asia, 183237
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the U.S. found its merchants and traders locked out of their traditional markets in Europe and the Caribbean. Hoping for new and profitable American trade relationships, President Andrew Jackson dispatched an unemployed ship-owner and merchant with no diplomatic...
Next Generation Homeland Security
Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system...