Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Project Azorian
The CIA and the Raising of the K-129
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under the...
by Thomas J. Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written. First published in hardcover on the battle's fiftieth anniversary in 1994 and drawing on materials not previously...
Toward a New Maritime Strategy
American Naval Thinking in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The book examines the evolution of American naval thinking in the post-Cold War era. It recounts the development of the U.S. Navy’s key strategic documents from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the release in 2007 of the U.S. Navy’s maritime strategy, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century...
Admiral William A. Moffett
Architect of Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Naval aviation historian William F. Trimble provides a clear and detailed portrait of the man who took on the challenge of forming an aeronautical bureau within the U.S. Navy in 1921 and then nurtured the early development of naval aviation. Describing Admiral William A. Moffett as one of the first high-ranking...
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
major work by one of Japan's leading naval historians, this book traces Alfred Thayer Mahan's influence on Japan's rise as a sea power after the publication of his classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. Hailed by the British Admiralty, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the international...
On the Warpath in the Pacific
Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
When J.J. Clark graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at the end of World War I he was ready to be a pioneer in one of the great transformations of the U.S. Navy in the twentieth century - the change from a surface-only force to one in which aviation played a key if not determinant role. Under the...
Utmost Gallantry
The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Focusing on the oceanic war rather than the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at sea-one of the largest fleets in the world and a small, upstart navy just three decades old. While American naval leadership searched for a means...
Torpedo
The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed a small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel-and by extension a small, minor navy-to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets...
Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy
The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book examines President Theodore Roosevelt's use of the United States naval services as supporting components of his diplomatic efforts to facilitate the emergence of the United States as a Great Power at the dawn of the 20th century. After reviewing the development of Roosevelt's personal philosophy...
Agents of Innovation
The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The author examines the influence of the General Board of the U.S. Navy as an agent of innovation in the years between the world wars. A formal body established by the secretary of the Navy, the General Board served as the organizational nexus for the interaction between fleet design and the naval limitations...
In Defence of Naval Supremacy
Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy 1889-1914
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable readers to observe the...
After Jutland
The Naval War in Northern European Waters, June 1916–November 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland. A popular misconception is that Jutland marked the end of the operational career of the German High Sea Fleet and the beginning of a period of stagnation for both it and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgiyevich Gorshkov led the Soviet Navy for almost three decades during the height of the Cold War. He was the architect of the Red Fleet, turning it from little more than a coastal defense force into the most powerful navy that Russia ever possessed....
American Amphibious Warfare
The Roots of Tradition to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in Early America will fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare. As the title implies, this book describes and analyzes early landing operations (from the Revolution through the Civil War) of American history, showing how they contributed...