Naval Institute Press: 579 books
by Stephen Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
When submarines failed to return to port from patrol, they were officially listed by the Navy as overdue and presumed lost. Loved ones were notified by the War Department that their siblings, spouses, and sons were missing in action and presumed lost. While 52 U.S. submarines were sunk during World War...
Bold Endeavors
Lessons from Polar and Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
This classic reference is considered the best single source of information on how to facilitate human adjustment and performance in long-term isolation. It is filled with exciting stories of survival-the exploits of explorers, military personnel, scientists and astronauts-along with expert analyses of...
Comics and Conflict
Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Illustration has been an integral part of human history. Particularly before the advent of media such as photography, film, television, and now the Internet, illustrations in all their variety had been the primary visual way to convey history. The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s,...
Red Sun Setting
The Battle of the Philippine Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Many regard this work as the definitive account of a controversial conflict of the war in the Pacific, the June 1944 battle known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot." Drawing on ten years of research and told from the viewpoint of the fliers and sailors who were on the firing line, William T. Y'Blood...
by Edward L. Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
For the World War II submariner, every day was a life-or-death trial: going to sea for months at a time; existing in dank, claustrophobic conditions; enduring long stretches of monotonous silence punctuated by adrenaline-spiked episodes of paralyzing fear and victorious elation. It was a duty few...
Shepherds of the Sea
Destroyer Escorts in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information...
Submarine Diary
The Silent Stalking of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II.
Back from the Deep
The Strange Story of the Sister Subs Squalus and Sculpin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This epic World War II saga follows the USS Squalus and Sculpin as they play out their dramatic destinies in the Pacific. The author, a seasoned journalist, re-creates their entire perilous journey. The Squalus sank during a test dive in 1939, but thirty-three trapped crewmen were saved thanks to the...
Torpedo Junction
U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Slaughter at sea-just miles from U.S. soil!
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from...
by Russell Crenshaw Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II s Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged...
A Special Valor
The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
If the U.S. Marines gave birth to a legend in the halls of Montezuma in the nineteenth century, they added glorious luster to it with their heroism and victories against the Japanese in World War II. For this vivid, foxhole view of the Marines' war, Richard Wheeler draws extensively on frontline eyewitness...
by Walter G. Winslow
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Recounting the last stand of the heavy cruiser Houston, this tale of survival brings to life the 1942 battle at Sunda Strait.
Preparing for Victory
Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This is the first book to examine Thomas Holcomb s crucial role as commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps during the Great Depression and World War II. It blends biographical, institutional, and operational history with leadership studies, organizational theory, and social and cultural history to explain...
Death at a Distance
The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Only seven U.S. submariners earned the Medal of Honor in World War II. Sam Dealey, the USS Harder's commander, was one of them. His honor was awarded posthumously after the entire crew was lost off Bataan during a depth-charge attack in August 1944 by a Japanese convoy. The Harder's fighting spirit is...