Naval category: 2015 books

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Churchill’s Pirates

The Royal Naval Patrol Service in World War II

by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tate’s Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations. The officers and seamen were mainly ex-fishermen who had manned trawlers in Icelandic waters. The service was armed mostly with obsolete weaponry and suffered heavy...
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Launch the Intruders

A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972

by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

Each pilot and bombardier/navigator sat side by side in an all-weather jet built for low-level bombing runs, precision targeting, and night strikes. Their success—and their very lives—depended on teamwork in flying their versatile A-6 Intruders. And when the North Vietnamese mounted a major offensive...
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A History of the Royal Navy

Empire and Imperialism

by Daniel Owen Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire. What started as a tussle between Britain and France over their North American territories escalated into an international maritime war which engulfed the world. This book looks at...
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Poseidon's Curse

British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution

by Christopher P. Magra
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Poseidon's Curse interprets the American Revolution from the vantage point of the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher P. Magra traces how British naval impressment played a leading role in the rise of Great Britain's seaborne empire, yet ultimately contributed significantly to its decline. Long reliant on...
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by Geoffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany's most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged immediately....
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Jutland

The Unfinished Battle

by Nicholas Jellicoe
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016

**“A compelling, dramatic account of the Royal Navy's last great sea battle.” —Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Dreadnought   More than a century later, historians still argue about this controversial and misunderstood World War I naval battle...
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by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015

From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes and a major aircraft carrier build was underway. Fighters such as the Grumman FLF Hellcat and...
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Canada's Navy, 2nd Edition

The First Century

by Marc Milner
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of...
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The Heroic Record of the British Navy

A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918

by Henry Howarth Bashford, Archibald Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014

Example in this ebook   In the years immediately preceding the Great War, already so hard to reconstruct, it was not uncommonly suggested that the British seafaring instinct had begun to decline. In our professional navy most thinkers had confidence, as in a splendid machine ably...
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by Thomas J. Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Most Americans know little about their Navy and learning about it can be daunting. But this informative yet highly accessible guide explains the sometimes strange ways of the U.S. Navy in terms civilians can understand. It addresses such things as the many titles military people have, the alphanumeric...
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A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham

A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

by Michael Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conference
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by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers.
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Canada's Navy, 2nd Edition

The First Century

by Marc Milner
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy – now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary – has been an expression...
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From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow

Volume II: To The Eve of Jutland 1914-1916

by Arthur Marder
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To
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