Naval Institute Press: 579 books
America's Black Sea Fleet
The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 19191923
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
In a high-tempo series of operations throughout the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean, a small American fleet of destroyers and other naval vessels responded ably to several major international crises including the last days of the Russian Revolution and the 1920-1922 Turkish Nationalist...
Naval Officers Under Hitler
The Men of Crew 34
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become professional officers. It traces their lives and mentality from their upbringing in the Weimar Republic through their post-war careers. Unique in its subject matter and methodology in both German and international...
Submarine Stories
Recollections from the Diesel Boats
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
One of the key concerns of naval strategists and planners today is the nature of the Chinese geostrategic challenge. Conceding that no one can know for certain China s intentions in terms of future conflict, the editors of this hot-topic book argue that the trajectory of Chinese nuclear propulsion for...
Blue & Gray Navies
The Civil War Afloat
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
A longtime military history professor at Virginia Military Institute and prolific author, Spencer Tucker examines the important roles played by the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War. His book makes use of recent scholarship as well as official records and the memoirs of participants to...
Guiding Lights
Monuments and Memorials at the U.S. Naval Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the Academy's monuments and memorials. To personalize the memorials and the naval figures they honor, she has included letters, firsthand battle reports, Lucky Bag commentaries, award...
The Rules of the Game
Jutland and British Naval Command
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme,...
John Paul Jones
America's First Sea Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This fresh look at America’s first sea warrior avoids the hero worship of past biographies and provides a more complete understanding of his accomplishments. Writing from the perspective of a naval officer with more than thirty years of experience and a seaman with a lifetime of sailing know-how,...
The Recipient's Son
A Novel of Honor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The names solemnly displayed in Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy serve as a constant reminder of why Annapolis is different from Harvard, or Stanford, or Duke. No midshipman recognizes this more viscerally than Donald Durago, who knows all too well that some will die--heroically, tragically, slowly,...
by Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Military ways are quite enigmatic, resulting in an alien world where acronyms often replace words and where “1330” is a time of day. Add to that, the Navy is not only military, it is nautical, which means that centuries of sea-going terminology and practices are added to the confusion. While the...
Honoring the Enemy
A Captain Peter Wake Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
"Honoring the Enemy is the story of how American sailors, Marines, and soldiers landed in eastern Cuba in 1898 and, against daunting odds, fought their way to victory. Capt. Peter Wake, USN, is a veteran of Office of Naval Intelligence operations inside Spanish-occupied Cuba, who describes with...
Lessons Not Learned
The U.S. Navy's Status Quo Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Despite its reputation as the most impressive naval force in the world, the U.S. Navy is in trouble, according to the author of this book, and systemic weaknesses could be its undoing. Here, military sociologist Roger Thompson provides a compelling, often scathing, assessment of the U.S. Navy and its...
Wings for the Fleet
A Narrative of Naval Aviation's Early Development, 1910-1916
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The men who ventured into the air in the Navy’s first frail aircraft were not only daring-they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value. This is the story of their trials, tragedies,...
Whitey
The Story of Rear Admiral E.L. Feightner, a Naval Fighter Ace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
This book is a long-awaited biography of one of the Navy’s last surviving World War II aces, and one of the Navy’s most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner, like so many of his generation, was in the van of the huge group of young men...