Naval category: 2015 books
Feeding Nelson's Navy
The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The author of How to Cook from A-Z disproves the myth of British navy culinary misconduct in “a work of serious history that is a delight to read” (British Food in America).
This celebration of the Georgian sailor’s diet reveals how the navy’s administrators fed a fleet of more than...
Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain
The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The Guardian
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless...
Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates.
Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known...
Death of the USS Thresher
The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . . have positive angle . . . attempting to blow . . . Then came the sounds...
The Great Ship
How Battleships Changed the History of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood.
During its reign from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, the battleship was the most powerful weapon of war known to man. Strategically, it determined a war’s outcome....
Killing the Bismarck
Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“An excellent account . . . A suspenseful narrative that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.” —WWII History Magazine
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s...
All Hands Down
The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years. What really happened to the USS Scorpion?
May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode...
by Craig L. Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the...
Empires of the Sea
The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center...
US Destroyers 1934–45
Pre-war classes
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, indispensable in roles large and small – from delivering the mail at sea to screening other vessels and, where larger ships were not present, forming the front line in battle. This title details the 169 ships of ten...
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em
The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Now in paperback, revised and updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em is the first book to recount the tragic and mysterious loss of the World War II submarine USS Gudgeon. In April 1944, the highly...
by Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
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RJ Mitchell: Legend of the Spitfire recounts the extraordinary achievements of one of Britain’s greatest aviation legends, the man responsible for creating Britain’s most iconic fighter aircraft, the Supermarine Spitfire.
The book, which is around the length of...
by Ron Cope
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
On March 1st 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered Operation Weserubung: the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable iron ore being delivered by rail from Sweden to the Norwegian port of Narvik. To complete the task, Hitler sent...
Grumman F-14 Tomcat
Bye - Bye Baby...!: Images & Reminiscences From 35 Years of Active Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
For thirty-five years of active naval service, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the foremost air superiority fighter of the Cold War, with continuing service as a fighter-bomber in the Gulf Wars. Two hundred thousand sailors, both pilots and "ground" crew, served in F-14 squadrons with the Tomcat...