Naval category: 2015 books
by Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
When Admiral Mahan passed away in 1914, his ideas and thoughts lived on in his writings, which spanned the naval strategy of his own times and the lessons learnt from history. They are still read today at the modern naval academies and the ideas permeate the teachings at Annapolis. A flag officer...
Maritime Strategy and Sea Control
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control.
During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes...
Carrier Battles
Command Decision in Harm's Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War...
The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 2
From Washington to Tokyo, 1922–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts—the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the seas, Great Britain saw its supremacy weakened...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual provides techniques and procedures for Marine Corps pistol marksmanship.
Marines must have the versatility, flexibility, and skills to deal with any situation at any level of intensity...
by Ross H. MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
The Naval Academy's culture is a unique and sometimes baffling phenomenon to the outside world, but with this newly updated guide in hand relatives and friends of midshipmen will find answers to all the questions they might have about Academy life. Since it was first published more than a decade ago,...
Professor Krylov's Navy
Memoir of a Naval Architect
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Memoir of Alexey Krylov, Russian naval engineer, scientist, and businessman, about his childhood, his education in Russia and France in XIX century, his years in the Naval Academy, and his naval career and business endeavors before and after Russian Revolution, his interactions with numerous historical...
The Admirals' Advantage
U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This analytic and historical study provides a revealing look at naval operational intelligence by embracing the fundamental question of what OPINTEL is and how it answers the fundamental question "Where is the enemy, in what strength, and disposition, and what is he doing right now?" It is primarily...
by W.M. James
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Published in the months leading up to the Battle of Jutland, W.M. James’ New Battleship Organisations, was the ultimate guide to command and organization of every aspect of a modern First World War capital ship. The book provides a unique, and highly revealing, insight into life aboard ship, the...
Seizing the Enigma
The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939–1943
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
“An absorbing and thoroughly well documented account” of WWII naval intelligence and the Allied hunt for the Nazi code machine known as the Enigma (Warship).
From the start of World War II to mid-1943, British and American naval forces fought a desperate battle against German submarine...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Theodore Roosevelt, ‘The Naval War of 1812.’
Roosevelt was 23 when this was published. He had just been elected to the New York State Assembly; it was begun as his senior thesis at Harvard. A masterpiece, for those of us who relish...
Victory without Peace
The United States Navy in European Waters, 1919-1924
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Victory Without Peace is about the US Navy in European and Near Eastern waters in the post World War I era. It is the third book in the author’s study of the US Navy in European waters. The author discusses the Navy’s participation in the peace negotiations at Versailles. The Navy was involved...
Sea Power
A Naval History, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
A classic work widely acknowledged over the past 20 years as the definitive text on its subject. All aspects of over 2,000 years of naval history are covered, from Greek and Roman galley warfare to Vietnam and beyond, with emphasis on the evolution of strategy, tactics, and weapons development.With 14...
Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919 -1939
Grand Strategy and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2003
The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic...