Naval category: 2015 books
German Naval Camouflage Volume II
1942 – 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012 the 1939-1941 volume was quickly recognized by warship enthusiasts and model makers as a major step forward in the understanding of...
by John Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
While the Naval Biography of England and the other great maritime powers has been written by the ablest authors, and published with every aid of embellishment and typographical elegance, that of the United States has hitherto been permitted to remain mostly unwritten; or has only presented itself...
Turning the Tide
The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College’s Archive. These documents have been published in an accessible format, with specially commissioned commentary by expert military historians, forming an important source...
Sweet Pea at War
A History of USS Portland
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Few ships in American history have had as illustrious a history as the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33), affectionately known by her crew as 'Sweet Pea.' With the destructionof most of the U.S. battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor, cruisers such as Sweet Pea carried the biggest guns the Navy possessed...
A Home on the Rolling Main
A Naval Memoir 1940-1946
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Tony Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. After brief service in the battlecruiser Renown off Norway and against the Italians, he went into destroyers and saw action in most European theatres – against...
The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914
Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet,...
by Dr Raffaele D’Amato
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
The Roman Empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. It was the presence of this fleet that secured the trade routes and maintained the communications within the huge Empire. The superior design of their...
Naval Policy Between Wars. Volume I
The Period of Anglo-American Antagonism 1919-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill...
Naval Policy Between Wars. Volume II
The Period of Reluctant Rearmament 1930-1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill...
From the Dardanelles to Oran
Studies of the Royal Navy in War and Peace, 19151940
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
This collection of essays was first published in 1974, and the fact that it remains relevant today is a testament to Marder’s legacy as arguably the greatest naval historian of the 20th century. Readability is part of what made Marder such an excellent historian, and it is displayed perfectly in this...
European Ironclads 1860–75
The Gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare.
When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the world's first oceangoing ironclad, France had a warship...
Battle Line
The United States Navy 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.S. fleet shrink under the pressure of arms limitation treaties and government economy and then grow again to a world-class force. The authors trace the Navy's evolution from a fleet centered...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In World War II's Pacific Theater, the U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) devoted a small percentage of its long-range capability to aerial minelaying against Japanese warships and commerce....
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
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 naval history. This is a remarkable piece of historical writing, based on original documents, ships’ logs, letters,...