Naval category: 2015 books
Learning War
The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Learning War examines the U.S. Navy’s doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history’s greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions...
Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714
Design, Construction, Careers & fates
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
For most of the seventeenth century the Netherlands constituted the most important maritime power in the world, with by far the largest merchant fleet and a dominance in seaborne trade that other countries feared and envied. Born out of an 80-year struggle against Spain for independence, the Dutch...
The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1
American Destroyers in Action, Decoying Submarines to Destruction, The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea, German Submarines Visit the American Coast, The Navy Fighting on the Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This 1921 Pulitzer Prize awarded history has been written in response to a demand for some account of the generally...
Southern Trident
Strategy, history and the rise of Australian naval power
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The development of Australia's navy has been a vital factor in its history and evolution as a nation in the century since Federation. Australia has a maritime environment and its national interests stretch far beyond its coastline.
Southern Trident examines the influences on the rise of Australian...
Blue & Gray at Sea
Naval Memoirs of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Excerpted memoirs included are:
- Incidents and Anecdotes of the Cival War by Admiral Porter, including sections dealing with the political schism of the navy at the war's outbreak, as well as accounts of various naval campaigns around the gulf.
- Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan...
With Commodore Perry to Japan
The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personable account of Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser’s clerk of the Mississippi. The National Historic Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) -endorsed documentary edition provides excellent coverage of...
Strange Intelligence
Memoirs of Naval Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting intelligence on naval installations. Recruited by Mansfield Cumming, the first 'C' (or head of what would become MI6), Bywater was given the designation 'H2O'...
Warships of the Napoleonic Era
Design, Development and Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of...
by Geoffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
With the Call to action stations in August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson.
This classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements - battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time,...
by Susan Rose
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2001
How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 provides a wealth of information about the strategy and tactics of these early fleets and the extent to which the possibilities of sea power were understood and exploited. This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and diffic
The Naval Miscellany
Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death! British sailors and...
21st Century Mahan
Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today’s problems. This collection of five of Mahan’s essays, along with Benjamin Armstrong’s informative introductions,...
The End of Barbary Terror
America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and...
by Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661\. Thereafter, Louis XIV"s navy grew rapidly to become the...