Naval category: 2015 books
by Douglas Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Coast Guardsmen who personify the service's core values. The author highlights the contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as Reserves,...
by Tom Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
World War II naval history has been discussed and examined from almost every possible angle. One story that has never been told in detail, however, is that of the U.S. Navy's vessel designated the landing craft, tank (LCT). Even though they are known for ferrying troops and supplies to the beaches of...
In Many a Strife
General Gerald C. Thomas and the U. S. Marine Corps, 1917-1956
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
A veteran of both world wars and the Korean War, Gen. Gerald C. Thomas helped change the Marine Corps in the twentieth century. Though not as well-known as John Lejeune, Chesty Puller, and A. A. Vandegrift, he was, as this book clearly demonstrates, responsible for the transformation of the Marines...
The Tattie Lads
The untold story of the Rescue Tug Service in two world wars and its battles to save cargoes, ships and lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Enduring great danger and often terrible conditions in heavy seas, the Rescue Tug Services worked tirelessly to bring to port damaged vessels and keep up the supply of food and essential items during two world wars.They were first deployed towards the end of the First World War to support and if necessary...
British Aircraft Carriers
Design, Development & Service Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class,...
by Katherine C. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial...
Clydebank Battlecruisers
Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty HMS Hood, the largest warship of her day. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of...
by Oliver Warner
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
First published in 1960, this is a gripping account of the decisive sea battle between the forces of Napoleon and the British under Nelson in 1798.
The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy...
by A. T. Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840 - 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, termed "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His idea on "sea power" based on the concept that countries with greater naval power will have greater...
by Mervyn Wingfield, Captain Peter Hore
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Captain Mervyn Wingfield was one of the last of his generation of submariners who made their reputation in the Second World War. Pre-war he had served on the China station and lived the riotous life of a young officer; in the war he commanded three submarines, Umpire, Sturgeon and Taurus, survived...
The Battleship Builders
Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more...
1914 The First World War at Sea in photographs
Grand Fleet vs German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The arms race that led to the First World War started in 1897 at the Spithead Naval Review, when Kaiser Wilhelm saw the might of Britain's Navy. He wanted to equal or better the fleet of Britain, and set about a huge building programme of warships. By 1914, tensions in Europe were at a breaking point...
Silent and Unseen
On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In Silent and Unseen, veteran submarine commander Captain Alfred S. McLaren describes in riveting detail the more significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-1965, onboard three attack submarines: the USS Greenfish (SS-351), USS Seadragon (SSN-584), and USS Skipjack...
Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. He also commanded...