Naval Forces & Warfare

Presents evidence suggesting collusion between US and Israeli intelligence in the attack on a US naval surveillance vessel during the Six-Day War a...

Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War. Upon his release, he joined the Co...

This refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence is important both because ONI was the first official American intelligence ...

John Inglis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a slave trading merchant. I am Determined to Live or Die on Board My Ship covers his action-packed...

Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790--when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine--through World War I, this book describes the...

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.Illustrated by examples from naval and...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and ...

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 Next morning at about 6 o''''clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a ship...

In the U.S. Navy Wheel Books were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique ...

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a Renaissance admiral. A U. S....

The Liberty Incident Revealed is the complete and final story about the Israeli Air Force and Navy attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War...

Never-before- published, first-hand accounts of undersea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine's crew can h...

This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organisation that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1...

In Lincolns Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Unions naval blockade of the Confedera...

No body of water was more vital to the Confederacy's efforts in the Civil War than the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Though the Confede...

Abraham Whipple (1733-1819) commanded insurgents who destroyed HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay and helped direct the successful invasion of the Baha...

Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published achronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on...

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built w...

A PUBLISHER''S WEEKLY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SPRING 2021From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping ...

The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898-1945 examines how the United States became a superpower through amphibious operations in order t...

David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy. The books is divid...

This book provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Columbia-class program, the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) cl...

____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA SÉYDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment . ...

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.Understand the longest battle of World War Two. This is an accessible, insightful and authoritative acco...

First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic a...

This classic study is considered essential reading for its analysis of fast aircraft carrier development in WWII. It provides a fascinating record ...

Named a Notable Naval Book of 2012 by Proceedings MagazineTheir stories needed to be told. And classmates working together, under a blanket of trus...

Named a Notable Naval Book of 2012 by Proceedings MagazineIntrepid Sailors tells one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.S. Navy. U...

Named a Notable Naval Book of 2012 by Proceedings MagazineRear Admiral Terry McKnight, USN (Ret.) served as Commander, Counter-Piracy Task Force-Gu...

In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping, it is hard to appreciate the difficulties involved two centuries ago in collecting and...

A lasting tribute to the USS Enterprise, this heavily illustrated, new edition tells the classic tale of the carrier that contributed more than any...