Naval category: 2015 books
US Standard-type Battleships 1941–45 (1)
Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Mexico Classes
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed investigation into the histories of each of the warships in the Standard-type battleship classes, the first three of which, the Nevada, Pennsylvania and...
Heritage of the Sea
Famous Preserved Ships around the UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The 21st century saw the naval power of Great Britain rise from that of an obscure island to that of a worldwide empire. British shipping and seamen dominated the globe for four centuries and the ships that explored the world and those which guarded them represent a unique treasure-trove of maritime...
Ships and Shipbuilders
Pioneers of Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators...
US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922–45
Prewar classes
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The USS Langley, the first American aircraft carrier, entered service in 1922. Despite being converted into an aircraft tender, it was the first step in a new direction for the US Navy and naval warfare. This book covers the design, development and operation of USN aircraft carriers built prior to...
Undersea Warrior
The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
No man above or below the waves was as admired--or feared--as this determined naval commander...
Among submariners in World War II, Dudley "Mush" Morton stood out as a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the sea war was fought in the Pacific. He...
Dive Truk Lagoon
The Japanese WWII Pacific Shipwrecks
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world. Scores of virtually intact large WWII wrecks filled with cargoes of tanks, trucks, artillery, beach mines, shells and aircraft rest in the crystal clear waters of the Lagoon – each a man-made reef teeming with life. Truk...
British Submarines at War
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an international reputation for being second-to-none in evoking the claustrophobic horror of war beneath the waves. Accurate in detail,...
Aircraft Carriers
A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations,...
Destroyer Battles
Epics of Naval Close Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence....
by Roger Litwiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II). These histories give a unique account of the small ships that have been the backbone of the Canadian Navy during the Second World War and the Cold...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
When war broke out in 1812, neither the United States Navy nor the Royal Navy had more than a token force on the Great Lakes. However, once the shooting started, it sparked a ship-building arms race that continued throughout the war. This book examines the design and development of the warships built...
by David Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
World War I is often thought of as just being a land war with men entrenched across the Western Front, but this "war to end all wars" was won as much at sea and in the air, as it was on land. This accessible guide takes readers through all the major naval battles of World War I, as well as exploring the stories of the ships and men that fought in them.
The Road to Russia
Arctic Convoys 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Bernard Edwards, the formidable naval historian, has researched the fate of Convoys PQ13 and PQ17 bound from Iceland to Northern Russia as well as the westbound Convoy QP13. Attacked relentlessly by aircraft and U-boats, the former lost a total of thirty ships while QP13 ran into a British minefield...
Gallant Lady
A Biography of the USS Archerfish
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
She looked like just about like the other diesel powered, Balao-class submarines crafted in the '40s. But there the similarity ends. Because the Archerfish--named for a fish that kills its victims with a lethal blast of water from below--won a unique, heroic place in military history and the memories...