Naval category: 2015 books
Tirpitz in Norway
X-craft midget submarines raid the fjords, Operation Source 1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2019
In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz. Numerous previous attempts to attack the ship from...
Java Sea 1942
Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2019
The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of the Pacific War and one of the few naval battles of the entire war fought to a decisive victory. It was the culminating point of the Japanese drive to occupy the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and, to defend...
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post-Napoleonic War reorganisation of the...
The Battle of The Nile
A Ladybird Expert Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES
- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?
- Why did the French believe they were unassailable?
- And why did Nelson and the British win?
TRACK the revolutionary roots and dramatic turning points of the British...
Mayday
The Decline of American Naval Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Timely and urgent, Mayday is a clarion call to action--before it's too late. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America's rise to superpower status and the relative peace of the postwar era. Over the past two decades, however, while Washington...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Nations in the Asia-Pacific region are modernizing their naval fleets, and many are choosing to use submarines as the centerpiece of these plans. China, one of the most influential nations...
Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific
The Triumph of Neptune?
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.
In the Asia-Pacific region there has been significant expansion of sea-based economies together with burgeoning naval power. Many claim that these processes will transform the world’s future...
America Spreads Her Sails
U.S. Seapower in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In this new paperback edition of America Spreads Her Sails, fourteen writers and historians demonstrate how American men and goods in American-made ships moved out over Alfred Thayer Mahan’s broad common,” the sea, to extend the country’s commerce, power, political influence, and culture. Capt....
by Robert Booth
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship?
In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain...
Millions for Defense
The Subscription Warships of 1798
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s-millions for defense, not a cent for tribute.” Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France’s galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered towards open war, were...
The Sea Eagle
The Civil War Memoir of LCdr. William B. Cushing, U.S.N.
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
William Barker Cushing is considered one of the navy's greatest heroes of the Civil War. After his expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, Cushing managed to get an appointment as a master's mate on one of the warships of a blockading squadron. Cushing's daring and exceptional performance in...
by Francis J. McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The classic text, U.S. Navy Fundamentals of War Gaming, provides an in-depth introduction to the basics of military gaming and offers historical insights into the development of war gaming methodologies. It covers the evolution of gaming tools such as ancient adaptations of chess and the development...
by Peter Hore
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
The Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, has established itself as a prime source of information and the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely called Nelsons Navy. Successive editors have widened the scope to include all sailing navies...
by Dr Edward Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Heavily armed and formidable, guided missile cruisers formed the core of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. From the last class of conventional Sverdlov-class cruisers through to increasingly complex and formidable missile cruisers, these ships ensured that NATO took the Soviet naval threat seriously....