Naval category: 2015 books
by Dr Edward Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike targets on the eastern coast of the United States....
From Imperial Splendour to Internment
The German Navy in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict.
The impact of this...
Silent Strategists
Harding, Denby, and the U.S. Navy's Trans-Pacific Offensive, World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Both sponsored policies that nourished the nation’s industrial infrastructure. Their legacy would yield a dividend of growth, production,...
The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters
Linchpin of Victory 1935-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This new work tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of the Second World War; it explains why this contribution, made while Russia's fate remained in the balance and before American economic...
Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy
A Glossary of Naval Terminology
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Do you ever get channel fever so bad only a great homeward bounders will cure you? Have you ever met Tug Wilson the brass-pounder, Dusty Miller the blanket stacker, or Nobby Clark the stoker? From aback to...
Death at Dawn
Captain Warburton-Lee VC and the Battle of Narvik, April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Hitler's desperate need for iron ore was the main reason for his attack on Norway in April 1940. The battle for Narvik's ice-free harbor soon became a crucial objective for both Allied and Axis forces. Attack at Dawn covers the two key battles that fought on 10th and 13th of April. The first battle...
by Donald L. Canney
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Donald L. Canneys study is the first book-length history of the U.S. Navys Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty years time the squadron proved ineffective. To officers and enlisted men alike, duty in the squadron was unpopular. The...
by Ursula Stuart Mason
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Women’s Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a man for sea service. At the peak there was over 5,000 women serving in Britain and overseas, but efforts to maintain the service in peace time were unsuccessful, and it was to be 1939, when the Second...
Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2020
During the American War of Independence (1775–83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results....
The Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War, Volume II, 1942-1943
The Fleet Air Arm in Transition – the Mediterranean, Battle of the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This is the second of three volumes covering the transformation of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. As the subtitle of this volume ‘The Fleet Air Arm in Transition’ suggests, the years 1942-1943 marked a stepping stone between the small pre-war cadre operating from a small number...
Navies of South-East Asia
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II.
The navies of South-East Asia have rarely been the subject of systematic attention but, as the maritime strategic balance within Asia becomes more complex...
Admiralty Despatches
The Story of the War from the Battlefront 1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
From at least as early as the eighteenth century it became a tradition that, following operations involving the Royal Navy, the commanding admiral would report to the Admiralty in the form of an official despatch. Following the French wars of 1792–1815 the despatches were published and that set...
U-Boats Attack!
The Battle of the Atlantic Witnessed by the Wolf Packs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Readers can view the Battle of the Atlantic through U-boat periscopes thanks to incredible eyewitness accounts bringing to life the horror of this war below and above sea Readers will taste the salt, smell the nauseating stench of the U-boats, and hear orders being whispered quietly while diving back...