Naval category: 2015 books
Wolf Pack
The Story of the U-Boat in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Germany's World War II U-Boat fleet represented the elite of their naval personnel. In terms of technology, training, tactics and combat successes, the U-Boat Waffe was far superior to that of any other combatant nation. In this comprehensive book, the wartime development of the U-Boat is traced along...
Ships for all Nations
John Brown & Company Clydebank 1847-1971
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Clydebank shipyard built some of the most famous vessels in maritime history – great transatlantic liners like Lusitania, Queen Mary and QE2, and iconic warships like the battlecruiser Hood, and Britain's last battleship, HMS Vanguard. Starting life as J & G Thomson in 1847, the business...
A World Ago
A Navy Man's Letters Home (1954-1956)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
It's not often one has the chance to become 20 again... A World Ago chronicles, through one young man's journal and vivid letters to his parents, his life, adventures, and experiences at a magical time. It follows him from being a Naval Aviation Cadet to becoming a "regular" sailor aboard the aircraft...
by Terrance McGovern, Nikolai Bogdanovic, Dr Edward C. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Due to its location in the western North Atlantic some 600 miles off the Carolinas and halfway between Halifax in Canada and Jamaica in the West Indies, the island of Bermuda was a key naval haven for the Royal Navy over the centuries. It was vital for the Navy first in the development of its American...
by Patrick O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In May 1915, the RMS Lusitania, then the world’s fastest liner, departed from New York. Seven days later she was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1,198 lives. Suspected by the Germans of carrying clandestine munitions to Britain, the great ship steamed into a fatal encounter with the...
The World War II Collection
The Miracle of Dunkirk, Day of Infamy, and Incredible Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to the beach at Dunkirk. Prime Minister...
Blackbeard
The Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Pirate
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Edward Teach – ‘Blackbeard’-is one of the legends of the so-called ‘golden age of piracy’. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody career that it is hard to see him and his times in a clear historical light. This new study looks for the man behind the legend, and it gives a...
by Robert Hay
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
In 1803, at the age of 14, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy, and for the next eight years experienced the trials and tribulations of a sailor’s life.
Intelligent, agile and willing, he became a boy servant to a series of officers, all of whom helped advance his education as was...
A Voyage to War
An Englishman's Account of Hong Kong 1936-41
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Hugh Dulley’s father (Peter Dulley) and mother (Therese Sander) met in Hong Kong on New Year’s Eve 1935. Four years later at the outbreak of war Peter, a weekend sailor, was called up in the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He eventually graduated to commanding an ocean-going tug of 500...
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
**A New York Times Bestseller
"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative." —Wall Street Journal**
This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when...
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada
The adventurer and map maker's formative years
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2010
The skills, knowledge and experience that took Captain James Cook to the South Seas and around the world seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, as author Jerry Lockett has discovered, their foundation was laid during the time he spent in Atlantic Canada. His experiences on Canada's east coast and...
Castles of Steel
Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power...
by Brayton Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Chester Nimitz was an admiral's Admiral, considered by many to be the greatest naval leader of the last century. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Nimitz assembled the forces, selected the leaders, and - as commander of all U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces in the Pacific Ocean - led the charge...
Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War II
On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would...