Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Nelson's Battles
The Triumph of British Seapower
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From his first dramatic initiatives at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797 to his last battle at Trafalgar in 1805, Horatio Nelson was a force to be reckoned with and a hero to his countrymen. This illuminating study of the battles that played such an important role in Napoleon's defeat also takes a close...
Lejeune
A Marine's Life, 1867-1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This well-documented and hard-hitting biography of the thirteenth commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps succeeds in converting John A. Lejeune from a near mythical figure in corps history to a flesh and blood officer who helped build the service from a small appendage of the U.S. Navy to an important arm...
21st Century Knox
Innovation, Sea Power, and History for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Leadership within the context of a given profession requires an informed understanding of a particular field of specialization. In maritime affairs, U.S. Navy Commodore Dudley Wright Knox provided a singular example of leadership in his chosen profession. Having graduated with the Naval Academy Class...
The Ablest Navigator
Lieutenant Paul N. Shulman USN, Israel's Volunteer Admiral
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This action-packed biography focuses on a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who was one of only fifty Jewish midshipmen commissioned in his class during World War II. In the Pacific, Lt. Shulman s destroyer survived both a typhoon and a Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack. After leaving the U.S....
Captains of the Old Steam Navy
Makers of the American Naval Tradition, 1840-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
This collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colorful naval leaders who guided the U.S. Navy through four turbulent decades of transition.
by Harold D. Langley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The interests of most naval historians and of American historians who focus on war and diplomacy are on such topics as strategy, leadership, naval ships and battles. In contrast, this book explores the effort to change the rules, regulations and actions of officers which affected the lives, morale and...
America's First Frogman
The Draper Kauffman Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and went on to a distinguished naval career. Today Admiral Kauffman is remembered as the nation's first...
Secret Missions
The Story of an Intelligence Officer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1946, this memoir recounts the author's nearly forty years of service in naval intelligence, beginning in 1908. One of the first to venture into the realm of psychological warfare, Ellis Zacharias was awarded the Legion of Merit with two gold stars...
by Vause
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work:...
Progressives in Navy Blue
Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.S. Navy from 1873 to 1898. The period was a dynamic quarter-century in which Americans witnessed their Navy evolve. Cultures of progress—clusters of ideas, beliefs, values, and practices pertaining to modern warfare...
The Baltimore Sabotage Cell
German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
By the summer of 1915, Germany was faced with two related, but somewhat dissimilar problems; how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. The solution to breaking the blockade was to find a way over it, through it, or under it. Aircraft...
An American Adventure
From Early Aviation through Three Wars to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
A memoir of extraordinary scope, William Lloyd Stearman's reminiscences will attract those interested in early aviation, World War II in the Pacific, life as a diplomat behind the Iron Curtain, the Vietnam War, and the ins and outs of national security decision making in the White House. Stearman begins...
The First South Pacific Campaign
Pacific Fleet Strategy December 1941–June 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese navies met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A strategic victory for the U.S. in spite of the loss of the carrier Lexington, the destroyer Sims and the fleet oiler Neosho, the battle...
by E.B. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly...