Naval Forces & Warfare

The launch in 1906 of HMS _Dreadnought_, the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same tim...

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states   A superb survey of the perenni...

This is a compilation which brings together in one volume technical descriptions of the Royal Navy's Nelson Class battleships. The Nelson class c...

This book covers the little known period of naval warfare in the Gulf of Finland, sparked by the German intervention in Finland and Estonia in earl...

Uncommon Warriors examines all of the 500 unique miscellaneous auxiliary and unclassified miscellaneous vessels of the US Navy, providing individua...

The details of these operations are described vividly, even passionately. Morison spares no information in describing the grim consequences of the ...

Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their stories in this collection of their experiences, recorded by the author during several years of travel throug...

Allied shipping was in a desperate situation in 1942, as the Germans were building U-boats faster than the British and the Americans could sink the...

A Society of Gentlemen is a social history of US naval officer education at Annapolis, Maryland from 1845 to 1861. By combing statistical and schol...

The U.S. Navys Unmanned Combat Air System aircraft currently in development will transform naval aviation, extending its reach while dramatically r...

The ninth volume in Admiral Morisons history takes up the story of American naval activities in the Mediterranean where Volume II left off, and cov...

Quality paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morisons multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by t...

The seventh volume in Admiral Morisons History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II picks up operations in the Aleutians where the...

Quality paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morisons multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by t...

Quality paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morisons multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by t...

The determining factors in the Battle for Leyte Gulf were superb skill, heroism, and aggressiveness, but confusion, surprise, and faulty assumption...

This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the...

During the Second World War, black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the armed forces and played their part in figh...

The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea f...

Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present.Many...

By far the most controversial sinking during the First World War was that of the Lusitania. As opposed to the loss of the Titanic several years ear...

The airships developed at Kingsnorth Airship Station in Kent played a vital role during the First World War by successfully protecting the Royal Na...

How much can you really find out about the War at Sea during the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass all y...

A Navy pioneer, Vice Adm. Samuel Gravely was the first African American to be commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy, the first to command a Navy...

More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the s...

Samuel Eliot Morisons monumental fifteen volume series, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, covering the complete record of ...

Samuel Eliot Morisons monumental fifteen volume series, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, covering the complete record of ...

Samuel Eliot Morisons monumental fifteen volume series, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, covering the complete record of ...

To succeed in todays Navy, the Operations Officer must understand the global environment where our Navy operates as well as the organisational cont...

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Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with....

From A1 to Zulu, the fully revised and updated third edition of Jackspeak is a comprehensive guide to the slang of the Royal Navy. Discover the hu...

This book explores the nautical history of some of our most common expressions in an entertaining and informative volume. As the crow flies'', ''c...

The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and ...

She was the finest vessel in Henry VIII's navy, the flagship of the fleet and one of the first to be equipped with heavy guns. The Mary Rose struck...

In the late 1890s the Russian Empire sought to strengthen its presence in the Far East, China and Korea. Faced with a growing threat posed by the I...

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine...

In May 1962 the Office of Naval Research and the CIA launched one of the most exotic spy missions of the Cold War: the parachuting of two intellige...

The author of an award-winning memoir about growing up black in Mississippi, Chalmers Archer turns his attention in this book to his experiences as...

In an effort to divert China's attention from the Korean front in 1950 and relieve pressure on the allied forces, the CIA sponsored a series of rai...

The Naval Institute Press will publish the much sought after six volumes of the Kure Maritime Museum's The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album serie...