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...

Details Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction,...

Overturns established thinking about the Anglo-American War of 1812-15. Named one of the 20 Notable Naval Books of 2011 in the US Naval Institute ...

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 ...

For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be ...

This volume focuses on naval leadership and ethics with respect to the individual leader and how his or her values and actions affect military cohe...

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouti...

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Next morning at about 6 oclock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and b...

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. Navys surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. It advances...

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

Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-sta...

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

A groundbreaking new chronological study of the role played by the Navy in the successful development of the Roman Empire. Both welcome and useful...

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...

This is the story of how the Second World War affected leisure boating: of the people who managed to overcome huge difficulties to go sailing durin...

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...

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue o...

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...

The formidable force of the Normans at sea has been frequently overlooked. This volume shows their dominance over the Mediterranean, and its far-re...

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...

Watch Officer's Guide, 16th Edition, is a handbook for all deck and combat information center watch officers of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ...

A date which will live in infamy.US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sunday, December 7, 1941, was supposed to be a day of rest for the military...

With updates to every chapter, this new fourth edition serves as the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services. Authored by a na...

During the late stages in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer was wounded in action, but vowed to return. In 1944 he...

Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built vengeance ship USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lo...

On 7 May 1915, one of the most beloved and legendary liners of the North Atlantic was torpedoed by a German U-boat, taking 1,191 of her passengers ...

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau. ...