Naval category: 2015 books
by Stanley II, Roy M.
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley presents aerial photographs of the German and Italian fleets that were selected as important six decades ago and have long lain dormant, unindexed and unexplained. Extensive use of aerial and other Intelligence imagery from long retired files would be enough...
Battle for the North Atlantic
The Strategic Naval Campaign that Won World War II in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The Battle of the North Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, running from 1939 until the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, though it reached its peak from mid-1940 through the end of 1943. The Battle of the North Atlantic pitted German U-boats and other warships of...
by Tom Grundner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
The book that Ramage fans have long awaitedBetween 1965 and 1989 the British author, Dudley Pope, wrote the 18-volume Ramage series of nautical fiction novels. With its publication Mr. Pope joined C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian as one of the giants of the nautical fiction genre. While...
Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys
The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty’s Secret Anti-Submarine Reports
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, for the first time noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz's memoirs in a parallel text...
by Jürgen Prommersberger
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
GRAF ZEPPELIN – THE ONLY GERMAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarine's attempt...
Bloody Sixteen
The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey’s gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany’s three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam,...
Kaiten
Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine And the First American Ship It Sank in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa exploded. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its first mission.
The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t...
Tidal Wave
From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had the navy faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
However, in the moment of victory on 25 October 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting an enemy that had...
Mutiny
The True Events That Inspired The Hunt For Red October
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international notoriety. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The...
Code Name Caesar
The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway . . . and changed the course of the war.
In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy's heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed. Like the other vessels of the Japanese Navy, the heavy cruisers were technologically superior to and far more innovative...
Treaty Cruisers
The First International Warship Building Competition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
The Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in World War II. In particular they laid down design parameters and tonnage limitations for each class of warship including battleships, aircraft carriers,...
In Harm's Way
The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America's worst naval disaster -- and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived.
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close...
Red Tobruk
Memoirs of a World War II Destroyer Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Red Tobruk, the war memoir of the Captain of HMS Eridge from late 1940 until August 1942 is a superb account of wartime action at sea. Frank Gregory-Smith&supl;s war started on the destroyer Jaguar and he saw action off Norway and during the Dunkirk evacuation, when she was hit by enemy air attack...