Military History

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is r...

This is the true life story of the adventurous Scottish gardener’s son, John Paul, who became America’s greatest naval hero, John Paul Jones. Briti...

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 ...

The Supercarriers is a comprehensive historical overview with extensive photos, maps, drawings, and operational detail, including all air-wing depl...

Recipient of the 1982 John Lyman Book Award for United States Naval History,this biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart unites fifty-five significant ...

Now in paperback for the first time, this collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colourful naval leaders who guided ...

This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history. The period from 1775 to 1850 was a trying tim...

Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese sur...

In 1921 Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims won the Pulitzer prize in history for Victory at Sea. The commander of U.S. naval forces operating in Euro...

In Rocky Boyer’s War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign...

Less than five years after Naval Aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble. The force had ...

Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in ...

Float Planes and Flying Boats is the first and only written history describing the Coast Guard’s contribution to early Naval Aviation’s development...

Victory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and NearEastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants in theVersa...

This autobiography, published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), highlights Lieutenant General Becton's remarkab...

Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts, and observations aboutcontemporary war taken from over thirty years of research, writing, andpers...

Congress Buys a Navy offers a new look at the nexus of U.S. politics,economics, and the funding and creation of what is thought of as the“modern” U...

Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, however...

Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists is a deliberately compact work aimed at both current and aspiring strategists, especially those who...

Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that ""words become thin...

First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-20...