Naval category: 2015 books
by William Weir
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Ranked in order of their relevance to the modern world, these struggles range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe...
Norman's Navy Years
1942-1959
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1944, A.L. Simon, a sailor at the Norman Naval Air Station, illustrated a booklet, "On the Beach," about Navy life in Norman, Oklahoma. The title he chose reflected the irony of the US Navy establishing two bases in a landlocked prairie town in 1942. The initial activation of the Navy bases (from...
by Søren Nørby, Tom Wismann
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
The two Danish support ships Absalon and Esbern Snare are a symbol of the new Danish navy that emerged following the end of the Cold War. The absence of a direct territorial threat enabled Denmark to pursue a new activist foreign policy with greater emphasis on military operations far from home. The...
Hitler's Gateway to the Atlantic
German Naval Bases in France 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.
When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The CNO has directed that the Navy position itself to remain pre-eminent in the fields of Intelligence, Cyber Warfare, Command and Control, Electronic Warfare and Battle & Knowledge Management. There is no other Service or nation that is as good, collectively, across these mission areas as the...
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume I: Capital Ships 1895–1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the inter-war years Richard Perkins, a keen amateur photographer and avid collector, amassed one of the world’s largest personal collections of warship negatives. This he eventually bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum, where it still forms the core of the historic photos naval section....
Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class
Warships of the Kriegsmarine
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 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...
La bataille de Trafalgar
Le combat naval qui ruine les ambitions anglaises de Napoléon
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Trafalgar en moins d’une heure !
Depuis le début de son règne, Napoléon Ier n’a qu’une envie : envahir l’Angleterre. Mais, pour cela, il devra combattre sur la mer, terrain de prédilection des Britanniques. Le 21 octobre...
Blockade
Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Blockade is the story of a long-running battle at sea, a battle for trade which both Britain and Germany had to win in order to survive; in particular, it tells the story of the Northern Barrage and the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
The Royal Navy’s role during WWI in denying Germany access to the sea,...
The Battle of Jutland
History’s Greatest Sea Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime force on the planet. Britain could boast more warships, and particularly more Dreadnoughts and battle-cruisers than any other nation. But the Germans had undertaken an enormously-expensive...
Poxed and Scurvied
The Story of Sickness & Health at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
When European sailors began to explore the rest of the world, the problem of keeping healthy on such long voyages became acute. Malnourishment and crowded conditions bred disease, but they also carried epidemics that decimated the indigenous populations they encountered – and brought back new diseases...
The Seasick Admiral
Nelson and the Health of the Navy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Horatio Nelson did not enjoy robust good health. From his childhood he was prone to many of the ailments so common in the eighteenth century, and after he joined the Navy he contracted fevers that further undermined his strength: he was even seasick whenever he first put to sea. Nevertheless, he saw...
by Paul Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but has gone far toward explaining...
Mr Midshipman VC
The Short Accident-Prone Life of George Drewry, Gallipoli Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry.
At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nation’s premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In...