Naval category: 2015 books
Coastal Patrol
Royal Navy Airship Operations During the Great War 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In the summer of 1915 the Royal Naval Air Service found itself engaged in an unexpected war at sea, the fight to prevent the German submarine fleet from disrupting the flow of vital supplies to the British Isles, necessary for the conduct of the war. It was a war that had to be won because by the...
Zeebrugge
The Greatest Raid of All
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain’s most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicized as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients.
A...
by Quintin Colville
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen – a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor's life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East...
by Dr Raffaele D’Amato
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The period of relative peace enjoyed by the Roman Empire in its first two centuries ended with the Marcomannic Wars. The following centuries saw near-constant warfare, which brought new challenges for the Roman Navy. It was now not just patrolling the Mediterranean but also fighting against invaders...
The Fighting Sullivans
How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific. The family's loss, the most extraordinary for the United States in its military history, was immortalized—and...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This is the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest reaches of the Empire. To that end pre-war German naval strategists allocated a number of cruisers...
U-Boats off Bermuda
Patrol Summaries and Merchant Ship Survivors Landed in Bermuda 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
For the first time, a book exposes an obscure theatre of the Second World War in great detail and comprehensively, not just in terms of geography, but also from the perspectives of both Allied and Axis participants. U-Boats off Bermuda provides details of specific U-Boat patrols and their commanders,...
by Admiral Lord Cochrane
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This is the exciting true life story of one of Britain’s most controversial admirals: Admiral Lord Cochrane. Napoleon called him le loup des mers (“the sea wolf’). One cannot visit a town in Chile (where he is seen as a hero) without crossing at least one street or town square that bears...
Long Night of the Tankers
Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to...
by Gunnar Åselius
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
This book, based on extensive work in Russian archives, investigates how strategy, organisational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval developments in the Soviet Union, up to the invasion of 1941. Focussing on the Baltic Fleet, the author shows how the perceived balance of power in northern Europe came to have a major influence on Sovie
America's Sailors in the Great War
Seas, Skies, and Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2016 Lyman Awards, presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History
This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I.
When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America’s sailors were immediately...
The Grand Fleet
Warship Design and Development 1906-1922
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history; and only ten years after this all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to...
Scapegoat
The Death of Prince of Wales and Repulse
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Scapegoat: The Death of Prince of Wales and Repulse' is a radical new account of one of Britain's greatest naval disasters. Making full use of modern research and unrivalled access to privazte family papers, it suggests that Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, the commander of the so-called 'Force Z', was made...
The Royal Navy
A History Since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast operational changes. This book tells the story, not just of victory and defeat, but also of how the Navy has adjusted to a century of rapid technological and social change. The extensive reforms made by Admiral Fisher at the dawn of the twentieth century saw...