Naval category: 2015 books
French Destroyers
Torpilleurs d'Escadres and Contre-Torpilleurs, 19221956
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Like its highly successful predecessors, French Battleships and French Cruisers, this beautifully presented book blends technical and historical analysis to produce the only comprehensive study of French destroyers in the English language. Between the world wars, France produced some of the largest...
Commemorating the Seafarer
Monuments, Memorials and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book discusses memorials - stained glass windows, church, cemetery and public monuments - commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century to the present. Examples have been chosen mainly from Great Britain and Ireland with a few from wider afield....
Naval Frogmen
Wartime Underwater Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The first modern frogmen were the Italian commando frogmen of Decima Flottiglia MAS which was first in action in 1940. They were nicknamed Uomini Rana, Italian for frogmen, because of their swimming frog kick style and because their fins looked like frogs’ feet. Their success against Royal Navy...
U.S. Navy Codebreakers, Linguists, and Intelligence Officers against Japan, 1910-1941
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from...
Peace on the Lakes
Canada and the Rush-Bagot Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The Rush Bagot Agreement is the oldest arms limitation agreement in the world. It originated in the aftermath of the War of 1812 when both Great Britain and the United States feared a descent into a naval arms race on the Great Lakes of North America. Two hundred years later the Rush-Bagot Agreement...
by Alfred Thayer Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Classic work of American history. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before...
by Paul Silverstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Civil War Navies 1855-1883 is the second in the five-volume US Navy Warships encyclopedia set. This valuable reference lists the ships of the U.S. Navy and Confederate Navy during the Civil War and the years immediately following - a significant period in the evolution of warships, the use of steam...
British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000
Influences and Actions
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those issues addressed presented, but new avenues for further research are clearly outlined. Th
by Thomas P. Ostrom, David H. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790—when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine—through World War I, this book describes the service’s national defense missions, including actions during the War of 1812, clashes with pirates, slave ships and Seminole Indians, the Civil War...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War I, spending most of it at anchor off the entrance to the Adriatic, keeping watch over the Austro-Hungarian...
Innovation and Empire in Turkey
Sultan Selim III and the Modernisation of the Ottoman Navy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III. New types of sailing warships such as two- and three-decked galleons, frigates and corvettes began to dominate the Ottoman fleet, rendering the galley-type oared ships obsolete. This period saw technological innovations...
Global Reach
Revolutionizing the Use of Commercial Vessels and Intermodal Systems for Military Sealift, 19902012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Global Reach presents a unique view of the fiscal constraints facing the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government. It calls for U.S. policymakers and the general public to understand the message within the book. With this understanding, the United States will ensure its future ability to acquire...
Modern Maritime Piracy
Genesis, Evolution and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book examines the complex phenomena of modern maritime piracy.
The work offers a cutting-edge analysis of modern maritime piracy in the two most pirate-prone regions – southeast Asia and northeast Africa – from the late twentieth century to the modern day. These case studies present...
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
The Question of Fire Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, Br