Naval Forces & Warfare

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By 1900, the British government and public had become gripped by a new and growing fear of invasion, not from traditional enemies such as France, b...

The watery, heavily vegetated marshlands of the Mekong Delta served as a formidable natural defense for Viet Cong units in the region, and the wate...

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each bo...

An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947 and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. K...

Sunk in a British ambush in 1708, the Spanish galleon San Jose was rumored to have one of the richest cargos ever lost at sea. Though treasure hunt...

At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy nothing could penetrate the defences of this b...

Gideon Welless 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful...

A photo in the New York Times on June 10, 1942 depicted a young naval officer, John Duncan Bulkeley, and his wife in the back of an open touring ca...

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II. B...

A detailed account of the war-winning role that a handful of Harrier squadrons played in the Falklands War. On 5 April 1982, the British aircraft...

Battleships and Carriers features 300 of the most significant capital ships to have sailed the seas since the age of sail. These include such famou...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named...

The authors of all manuscripts in this monograph were specifically invited for papers that would provide new insights into the complex nature of m...

From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the heigh...

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...

Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy's most respected officers of a...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like sea power derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive b...

The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the b...

For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in th...

This book examines the origins of the US Navys 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US governments Pivot to Asia strategy, and the most rec...

Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy sniper cell and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program th...

This is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. K...

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective. Rather than focusing on the technologies develope...