Naval category: 2015 books
by Harold D. Langley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The interests of most naval historians and of American historians who focus on war and diplomacy are on such topics as strategy, leadership, naval ships and battles. In contrast, this book explores the effort to change the rules, regulations and actions of officers which affected the lives, morale and...
Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
The Turn to Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy.
Economics...
The Naval Actions of the War of 1812
Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Naval Actions of the War of 1812" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "In searching the history of our own country, when it stood together as a united nation, waging just war, we find England, our...
Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696-1860
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Peter the Great created a navy from nothing, but it challenged and soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from the heartland of Europe. In battle it was surprisingly successful, and at times in the eighteenth...
Britain's Naval Power, Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From Trafalgar to the Present Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Volume two illustrates why England’s naval prowess has earned its navy the title “mistress of the sea.” Covering the era from Trafalgar to the late nineteenth century—ending with a chapter on modern naval disasters, this volume surveys the successes and failures of one of the world’s greatest navies, as well as advances in ship design and armaments.
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama...
"Execute against Japan"
The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
“ . . . until now how the Navy managed to instantaneously move from the overt legal restrictions of the naval arms treaties that bound submarines to the cruiser rules of the eighteenth century to a declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan immediately after the attack on Pearl...
Frank McClean
The Godfather to British Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
During aviation’s pioneering years Francis Kennedy McClean used his vast inherited wealth to help the now famous Short Brothers company become established as one of Britain’s greatest aircraft manufacturers and, in doing so, he helped the Royal Navy’s first pilots into the air. In effect, he...
by Paul Silverstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the "New Navy" and ordered removal of all obsolete ships. All US Navy ships since that time have stemmed from these first three cruisers. The numbering...
Militarism in a Global Age
Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk...
Broke of the Shannon
and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Captain Broke's victory in 1813 over Captain Lawrence of USS Chesapeake, which was to have far reaching influence on the future of North America, did much to restore the morale of the Royal Navy, shattered by three successive defeats in single-ship duels with US frigates, and stunned the American...
Progressives in Navy Blue
Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.S. Navy from 1873 to 1898. The period was a dynamic quarter-century in which Americans witnessed their Navy evolve. Cultures of progress—clusters of ideas, beliefs, values, and practices pertaining to modern warfare...
Shaping the Royal Navy
Technology, authority and naval architecture, c.1830–1906
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They were the products of engineering ingenuity,...
The Baltimore Sabotage Cell
German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
By the summer of 1915, Germany was faced with two related, but somewhat dissimilar problems; how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. The solution to breaking the blockade was to find a way over it, through it, or under it. Aircraft...