Naval category: 2015 books
by Víctor San Juan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Desde la Caída de Constantinopla y la Guerra de Flandes hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial, conozca catorce desconocidas campañas navales de ámbito universal, que, a pesar de su trascendencia y marcar su época, suelen permanecer ignoradas o minusvaloradas. Un recorrido diferente por la historia naval,...
Letters from HMS Britannia
William Lambert & the Late Victorian Navy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete. He returned to England determined to pursue a career in the Royal Navy. His letters home from the service, assiduously compiled by A....
Away Seaboat
Personal memoirs of Captain Charls Wickham Malins DSO DSC RN
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Charles Wickham Malins was destined for a life at sea from an early age; joining the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth in 1927 at the age of thirteen he was already a Commissioned Officer of His Majesty's Royal Navy before the outbreak of War in 1939. He was, what the Navy calls a 'Salthorse'...
by Arthur H. Pollen
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
To the Admirals, Captains, Officers and Men of the Royal Navy and of the Royal Naval Reserve:
To the men of the merchant service and the landsmen who have volunteered for work afloat:
To all who are serving or fighting for their country at sea:
To all naval officers who are serving—much...
The Victoria Cross at Sea
The Sailors, Marines and Naval Airmen awarded Britain’s Highest Honour
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from Dar es Salaam to Zeebrugge, from the Barents to the Java Sea, from New Zealand to the North Atlantic, and from China to...
Torpedo
The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel – and by extension a small, minor navy – to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The
Coffins of the Brave
Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812, archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial shipbuilding. They range from four small prewar vessels to four 16- or 20-gun brigs, three warships of much greater...
Pirate Nation
Elizabeth I and her Royal Sea Rovers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For all the romantic mythology surrounding the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the financial underpinning of the reign of 'Gloriana' was decidedly sordid. Elizabeth's policy of seizing foreign assets made her popular at home but drew her into a public/private partnership with pirates who preyed on the...
The English Armada
The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been...
Real Armada en el Pacífico Sur
El Apostadero Naval del Callao 1746-1824
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
El presente libro es fruto de una investigación iniciada hace varias décadas, en las que se han consultado archivos y bibliotecas en España, Perú, Chile, México, Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Australia. La labor no ha sido sencilla, pues no se contaba con una bibliografía abundante sobre el...
A Game of Birds and Wolves
The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
The triumphant story of a small group of female volunteers who, alongside a retired British naval captain, devised a winning strategy to defeat the Nazi U-boats and deliver a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic
By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World...
Japanese Battleships, 1897?1945
A Photographic Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The remarkable images, some very rare, constitute an archive that is almost without equal in the West. The book begins with the launch of Japan's first contemporary...
Jutland
World War I's Greatest Naval Battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning...
No Room for Mistakes
British and Allied Submarine Warfare, 19391940
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine...