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by Robert Hay
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay joined the Royal Navy and spent the next eight years at sea. His colorful memoir describes a sailor s hard life during the period and includes actions off the French coast and in the East Indies, where he was badly wounded. When his ship ran aground off Plymouth,...
SEAL of Honor
Operation Red Wings and the Life of LT. Michael P. Murphy (USN)
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, commander of Navy SEAL Team 10, posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 28 June 2005 during a fierce battle with Taliban fighters in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Michael was the first recipient of the nation’s highest...
In the Shadow of Greatness
Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service of the Naval Academy Class of 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Their stories needed to be told. And classmates working together, under a blanket of trust and friendship, was the only way to allow people to open up. It was a three year journey into the hearts and souls of America’s youngest heroes to gather these important historical accounts, but it was worth...
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Despite demonstrated prowess in the handling of ships and sailors, five years after receiving his commission, Jim Stavridis was planning on getting out of the Navy and going to law school. His assignments officer, a young lieutenant commander by the name of Mike Mullen (who would go on to become Chairman...
Double Edged Secrets
U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Assigned to the combat intelligence unit in Honolulu from June 1941 until the end of World War II, author W. J. Holmes was an important part of the naval organization that collected, analyzed, and disseminated intelligence information, and his compassionate understanding of the business of intelligence...
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral
Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway & Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
An abundance of new evidence demanded this reevaluation of Frank Jack Fletcher, the ?black shoe? admiral who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface warrior?in contrast to a ?brown shoe? naval aviator--Fletcher led the carrier forces that won against all odds at Coral Sea,...
by Thomas J. Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Adopted by the U.S. Navy for issue to all new Sailors, A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy brings to life the events that have shaped and inspired the Navy of today while highlighting the roles of all Sailors-from seaman to admiral. Rather than focus entirely upon such naval icons as Stephen Decatur...
The Golden Thirteen
Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Foreword by Colin L. Powell. In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men believed they could set back the course of racial...
Destroyer Captain
Lessons of a First Command
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship for the first time and in the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations...
Mahan on Naval Strategy
Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
This book makes a valuable and original contribution to the study of strategic thinking of one of the greatest naval theoreticians of all time. Rather than taking one of Mahan’s many works and reprinting it, this volume offers a unique collection of articles and chapters from many books by Mahan, selected...
The U.S. Navy
A History, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
As readable as fiction, as timely as today's headlines, this authoritative, concise history of the U.S. Navy traces the development of American seapower from the raggle-taggle Continental Navy of 1775 to current efforts to deploy strategic and tactical naval innovations for the twenty-first century....
Germany's Last Mission to Japan
The Failed Voyage of U-234
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
When U-234 slipped out of a Norwegian harbor on her maiden voyage in March 1945, the submarine carried a precious assortment of armaments and a select group of officials destined for Japan. En route came word that Germany had surrendered, and the boat's commander, Johann Heinrich Fehler, suddenly found...
Oliver Hazard Perry
Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy s most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of...
Operation KE
The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943-a topic which has hitherto received very little attention. Operation KE was successful largely because Japanese strategic planning and tactical execution was basically sound. The traditional view holds...