Naval category: 2015 books
Seize the Fire
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero?...
Nightmare at Scapa Flow
The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak"
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navy's home anchorage, with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germany's first shattering blow against Britain in the 1939-45 war. Within six weeks the long-standing German dream of breaching the defences of Scapa Flow had been achieved. Germany...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II surpassed the Allied and Axis fleets in innovation and technology. This title covers the 12 Japanese battleships that saw service between 1941 and 1945, including the mighty Yamato. Each class is considered in light of its design and construction, its armament...
The Coral Sea 1942
The first carrier battle
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The Battle of the Coral Sea is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another. Instead, aircraft launched from carrier decks were sent out to attack the enemy with bombs and torpedoes. In May of 1942, the Japanese fleet moved...
Santa Cruz 1942
Carrier duel in the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Despite myth, the Japanese carrier force was not destroyed at Midway but survived to still prove a threat in the Pacific Theater. Nowhere was this clearer than in the battle of Santa Cruz of October 1942. The stalemate on the ground in the Guadalcanal campaign led to the major naval forces of both...
The Hunters and the Hunted
The Elimination of German Surface Warships around the World 1914-15
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
At the start of World War One the Imperial German Navy had a large number of surface warships deployed around the world. These posed a considerable threat to British mercantile interests, particularly the import of food and fuel supplies. Their elimination was a matter of urgency.This book covers...
Battle on the Seven Seas
German Cruiser Battles 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. Drawing on first-hand accounts and original research in German archives, the...
by James Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The frank and revealing memoirs of James Lowry, a young surgeon in Nelson's Mediterranean fleet 1797 to 1804.This is his hand-written journal, never intended for publication, describing his rugged life afloat and fascinating (often erotic) adventures ashore.As one reviewer wrote, it is a "fantastic...
by Edgar Stanton Maclay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historians tell us that the United States Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. But was it?
In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government employed a total 70 warships, carrying 1,800 guns and swivels. In those same two wars there were 1,300 privateers operating with almost 16,000...
The Ice Diaries
The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.
The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Bristling with newly classified, never-before-published...
Tarawa 1943
The turning of the tide
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering amphibious invasion, the Marines of the...
Day of Infamy
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Lord’s classic, bestselling account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on the Pacific fleet, soldiers, generals, and civilians alike felt shock, then fear,...
by Cindy Horrell Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
On July 11, 1942, the USS North Carolina steamed into Pearl Harbor. She was a magnificent ship—the first in a new class of battleships, simultaneously monstrous and fast. She was two-and-a-half-football-fields long and so wide she could barely pass through the Panama Canal on her journey to Hawaii....
by Alvin B. Kernan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of his experience as a young enlisted sailor with a rich historical account of the Pacific war. Kernan served in many battles and was aboard the Hornet when it was sunk by torpedoes in the Battle...