Naval category: 2015 books
Battleships: The First Big Guns
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This new addition to the Images of War series takes as its focus the early Big Gun battleships that saw development and deployment during the First World War. Iconic ships such as HMS Warspite and Malaya feature amidst this pictorial history that is sure to appeal to fans of the series, and naval...
The Bird Farm
Carrier Aviation and Naval Aviators?A History and Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
See the excitement and danger of life on an aircraft carrier like never before.
How does it feel to sit aboard a thirty-ton jet and be hurled over a ship’s bow at 140 miles per hour? And how does a deck crew coordinate its efforts to achieve such a feat every thirty seconds?
Offering...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines the role of anti-submarine warfare in the new U.S. Navy maritime strategy. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has called for the development of a new Maritime Strategy. Critical to this new strategy...
From Hot War to Cold
The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book presents a review, analysis and comparison of the World War Two military strategies of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance at the Battle of Midway, and Admiral William P. Halsey at the Battle Of Leyte Gulf. This...
The Fight for the Old North State
The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
On a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate president Jefferson Davis “The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to capture the enemy’s forces at New Berne, it should be done.” Over the next few months, Lee’s dispatch would precipitate a momentous series...
by John Blake
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
A familiar sight on the Thames at London Bridge, HMS Belfast is a Royal Navy light cruiser, launched in March 1938. Belfast was part of the British naval blockade against Germany and from November 1942 escorted Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union and assisted in the destruction of the German warship...
by Chris Sams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
German raiders posed an incredible threat against the Allied forces in August 1914, particularly to British merchant vessels and their naval superiority. As the world plunged into war, two fleets of German raiders and cruisers lay beyond the North Sea. Several German admirals ventured across the world,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. China's rising maritime power is encountering American maritime power along the sea lines of communication (SLOCs) that connect China to vital energy resources in the Middle East and...
The Defence of the Dardanelles
From Bombards to Battleships
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The Straits of Dardanelles that separates Europe and Asia Anatolia, were fortified in the 15th century with massive bronze bombards and history has proved that unwelcome ships have to run a formidable gauntlet.
On 18 March 1915, a powerful fleet of British and French warships attempted to overwhelm...
Opposing the Slavers
The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little...
by Steve Wiper
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or...
The Trafalgar Chronicle
New Series 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, has established itself as a prime source of information and the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely called Nelson's navy. Successive editors have widened the scope to include all sailing navies...
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear
The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.