Naval category: 2015 books
The World's Greatest Battleships
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
For more than 400 years, the big-gun warship stood as the supreme naval war machine. It was not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation’s power, wealth and pride. So powerful was the link between the battleship and national feeling that even into the nuclear era, some,...
Pirate Alley
Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Rear Admiral Terry McKnight, USN (Ret.) served as Commander, Counter-Piracy Task Force-Gulf of Aden. He wrote the first draft of the Navy’s handbook on fighting piracy while serving as the initial commander of Combined Task Force 151, an international effort to deploy naval vessels from several nations...
Kustenflieger
The Operational History of the German Naval Air Service 1935-1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
From its very inception, the little-known Küstenfliegergruppen, the German coastal air service, was hindered by restrictions imposed at the Treaty of Versailles and the rising dominance of Hermann Göring s Luftwaffe. Its size, capability and mandate were suppressed, and in 1944, the last Küstenfliegerstaffeln...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far from the naval epicentre of the war than were ever killed at Jutland. Gunboat engagements during this...
by Lawrence Sondhaus
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book looks at the transition of wooden sailing fleets to the modern steel navy. It details the technological breakthroughs that brought about this change - steampower, armour, artillery and torpedoes, and looks at their affect on naval strategy and tactics.
Part of the ever-growing and prestigious Warfare and History series, this book is a must for enthusiasts of military history.
Jutland 1916
The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War. For years the myriad factors contributing to the loss of many of the ships remained a mystery, subject only to speculation and theory.
In this book, marine archaeologist and...
by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
On September 2, 1945, surrender ceremonies officially ending World War II were broadcast worldwide from the deck of the USS Missouri. The ceremony also marked the end of one of the most eventful years for any vessel in the history of warfare. USS Missouri at War chronicles the career of this mighty...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. Japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the IJN acquiring a fleet of modern foreign-built warships. Coupled with...
Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis
Flamborough Head 1779
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War is perhaps the most famous single-ship duel in history. This epic battle between two very similar ships – and crews – off the coast of Britain in September 1779 created two naval heroes:...
Secret Flotillas Vol 1
Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany 1940-44
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
As the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These "secret flotillas" landed and picked up agents in and from France, and ferried Allied...
Seven at Santa Cruz
The Life of Fighter Ace Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This riveting biography details how Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa became a World War II naval hero. During the Battle of the Coral Sea, Swede flew an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber and helped sink Shoho, the first aircraft carrier lost by Japan in World War II. The next day, in that same Dauntless, he took...
Tirpitz
And the Imperial German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
“A first-rate biography of this grand admiral who is better known for his political skills than his naval ones.” —US Naval Insitute Proceedings
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World War I, challenging...
Tin Can Titans
The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
An epic narrative of World War II naval action that brings to life the sailors and exploits of the war's most decorated destroyer squadron
When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it...
Submarine Stories
Recollections from the Diesel Boats
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first...