Naval category: 2015 books
by Alfred Thayer Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Courage, loyalty, and service to the state are among the virtues extolled here by Mahan, the father of modern sea power theory. This authoritative 1905 history is based on his lectures as president of the Naval War College. Volume Two takes the story from the winter of 1812/3 and Bainbridge’s Squadron to the peace negotiations which ended the war in February of 1815.
by G. A. Henty
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
It was early in December that H.M.S. Perseus was cruising off the mouth of the Canton River. War had been declared with China in consequence of her continued evasions of the treaty she had made with us, and it was expected that a strong naval force would soon gather to bring her to reason. In the...
by E. Hamilton Currey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
You know about the fleets of Britain, France, Spain, and America; but did you know that some of the most formidable naval forces in history were not European at all?
As the 16th Century opened, the moors had been driven out of Spain and cast onto the barren shores of north Africa. Driven by...
The Lusitania's Last Voyage
Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A first-hand account of the Lusitania’s doomed final voyage.
On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England. This act of war had a terrible toll-of the...
Fighting the Great War at Sea
Strategy, Tactic and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war – even the inevitability of British participation – arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about...
Battles at Sea in World War I
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between the United Kingdom and Germany. The battle took place in the south-eastern North Sea when the British attacked German patrols off the north-west German coast.
The German...
by Jürgen Prommersberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 during the First World War in the South Atlantic. The British, after a defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, had sent a large force to track down and destroy the victorious German...
Secret Flotillas
Vol. I: Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
With the fall of France, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These 'secret flotillas' landed and picked up agents in and from France, and ferried Allied evaders and escapees....
by Dr Alexander Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Soviet Navy that faced the German onslaught in 1941 boasted a mixture of modern warships, often built with foreign technical assistance, and antiquated warships from the Tsarist era that were modernised for the conflict.
Some Soviet naval vessels saw limited involvement in the war against...
Scapa 1919
The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow...
Very Special Ships
Abdiel Class Fast Minelayers of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. They operated not only as offensive minelayers – dashing into enemy waters under cover of darkness – but in many...
Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet
Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs, 1935-53
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated from the Russian.
The British Battle Fleet, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
A classic in its genre, Fred T. Jane’s history of the British battle fleet focuses on how naval ships came to be—their development from crude warships of the past to intricate and complex machines in the early 1900s.
Battleships of the Scharnhorst 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...