Naval category: 2015 books
The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor
Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
First published in 1808, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor became a standard guide throughout the 19th century in both England and the United States. Author Darcy Lever compiled the text for "a young gentleman whose inclinations at that time led him to the choice of a sea-faring life," and he later...
The Attack on the Liberty
The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The definitive account of the infamous 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces and the continuing controversy over what really happened.
• Notorious incident: In 1967, Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked the spy ship uSS Liberty in international waters during the Six-Day...
U-47 in Scapa Flow
The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak 1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy – nothing could penetrate the defences of this bastion. So how, in the dead of night, was Gunther Prien's U-47 able to slip through the line of protective warships to sink the mighty Royal Oak? This...
by Barry Gough
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this...
by E. Keble Chatterton
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
“No more risky enterprise day after day, week after week, can be conceived than that of hovering about on the sea-lanes, usually within wireless range of the British cruisers; and the narrow escapes, the coincidences, the exciting moments rival breathless fiction.”
In this gripping narrative,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report by the U.S. Navy represents the first comprehensive scholarly attempt to piece together the operational history of the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam from the first coastal patrols in 1965 through the 1968 Tet Offensive....
Gateway to the World
The Port of New York in Colour Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North America. However, its real expansion came in the nineteenth century when increasing industrialisation and the development of canals and then railways caused...
War Beneath the Sea
Submarine Conflict During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Praise for War Beneath the Sea
"I am truly filled with awe and admiration...fascinating and a great contribution to the entire lore of submarines.... I wish I had written the book." ?Capt. Edward L. Beach, USN (Ret.) author of Run Silent, Run Deep
"Peter Padfield is the best...
Schnellboote
A Complete Operational History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Kriegsmarine's Schnellboote – fast attack boats or E-boats to the Allies – were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War.
Operating close to their various bases they became a devastatingly effective weapon in nearly all the Kriegsmarine's theatres...
Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima
The Story of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain’s 8th Army...
Jutland 1916
Twelve Hours to Win the War
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Using a narrative approach, Jutland 1916 – Twelve Hours that Decided the War tells the story of the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval clash of the First World War. Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts, some of which were previously unknown, it weaves a highly original narrative, which...
by Jim Christley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Naval warfare in the Pacific changed completely with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The strategic emphasis shifted from battleships to much more lethal, far-ranging weapons systems; one of these was the submarine. This book details the design and development, classes, weapons and equipment,...
by Innes McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
As the major powers engaged in an arms race in the early years of the 20th century, the Admiralty was tasked with developing that deadly stalker of the high seas the submarine. In 1905, briefed with creating a vessel that could be employed on an enemy's coastline, the Admiralty took several technological...
Hitler's Gray Wolves
U-Boats in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The untold true story of German U-boats in World War II operating alongside the Japanese to wreak havoc in the Pacific Theater.
Very little has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean, where almost forty German submarines were assigned to operate from the Malaysian port of Georgetown...