Naval Forces & Warfare

Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War. It has bee...

Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis. Af...

Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. ...

As U.S. strategy shifts (once again) to focus on great power competition, Strategy Shelved provides a valuable, analytic look back to the Cold War ...

Published fifty years after America's first clash with communism, this highly readable book presents the most authoritative and comprehensive recou...

Zumwalt is a compelling portrait of the controversial military man who is widely regarded as the founder of the modern U.S. Navy, Admiral Elmo Russ...

The Decline of European Naval Forces aims to provide insight into the evolution of Europe's naval forces since the end of the Cold War. To illumina...

The U.S. Navy against the Axis tells the story of the U.S. Navy’s surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. It advance...

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised   Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023...

A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean from the earliest times until the present. This book presents ...

Shows how the political turmoil of the Spanish American Wars of Independence allowed an upsurge in prize-taking activity by navies, privateers and ...

Considers naval leadership and management very widely, moving beyond a focus on leading admirals. Many works on naval history ascribe success to t...

Mariners made a major - but neglected - contribution to England's warfare in the middle ages. Here their role is examined anew, showing their impor...

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 Wa...

How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish? Churchill on...

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces made daily direct contact durin...

American Amphibious Warfare: The Roots of Tradition to 1865 will fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare. As the title imp...

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...

With the launching of Subchaser 1264 in the spring of 1944, the U.S. Navy began a social experiment designed to test the ability of a group of Afri...