Naval category: 2015 books
Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696 - 1860
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Peter the Great created the Russian navy from nothing, but it 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 Europe. During the 18th century it was the third largest navy in the world yet its history, and especially...
A Tale of Two Subs
An Untold Story of World War II, Two Sister Ships, and Extraordinary Heroism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
On November 19, 1943, the submarine USS Sculpin, under attack by the Japanese, slid below the waves for the last time in what would become one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. Naval history. Not only did several crewmembers survive the sinking - an extremely rare event in World War II submarine...
We Have Met the Enemy
Oliver Hazard Perry: Wilderness Commodore
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”
—Oliver Hazard Perry to General William Henry Harrison, September 10, 1813
Oliver Hazard Perry fought perhaps the most perfect single battle in American naval history.
How Perry turned certain defeat in what has become known...
Home of the Fleet
A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
During the past century, the Royal Navy and its support services at Portsmouth dockyard have experienced a pace of change not seen since the 15th century. This book examines the impact of that change on the ships, buildings, and personnel of the naval base. The dockyard has evolved continually as...
by Vause
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work:...
The Spectral Tide
True Ghost Stories of the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Now, for the first time, comes a long-overdue book that presents all of the U.S. Navy's rich cargo of paranormal phenomena. There is the great Stephen Decatur, whose mournful apparition still stalks the halls of his famous home, said to be one of the most haunted spots in Washington, D.C. USS The Sullivans,...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Three times during the 17th century, England and Holland went to war as part of an ongoing struggle for economic and naval supremacy. Primarily fought in the cold waters of the North Sea and the English Channel, the wars proved revolutionary in their impact upon warship design, armament, and naval...
Ship of Ghosts
The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Son, we’re going to Hell."
The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize...
Admiral "Bull" Halsey
The Life and Wars of the Navy's Most Controversial Commander
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The definitive biography of America's best-known naval officer, who commanded the legendary fast carrier force during WWII.
From the tragic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, when he fashioned America's first response to the attack, to the war's final day in Tokyo Bay when he witnessed Japan's surrender,...
Wahoo
The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles.
Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. “Mush” Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results...
Admiral Bill Halsey
A Naval Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
William Halsey, the most famous naval officer of World War II, was known for fearlessness, steely resolve, and impulsive errors. In this definitive biography, Thomas Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the fighting admiral to present a revealing human portrait of his personal and professional life as it was lived in times of war and peace.
In Passage Perilous
Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
An invaluable account of one of the most overlooked sea battles of World War II.
By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold....
Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas
Kriegsmarine Security Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
“A vast amount of information on the German Naval Security Fleet, sicherungsstreitkräfte, producing what is a unique review in depth.” —Firetrench.com
This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in...
In the Hurricane's Eye
The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review
The...