Naval category: 2015 books
The Silent War
The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2002
The Cold War was the first major conflict between superpowers in which victory and defeat were unambiguously determined without the firing of a shot. Without the shield of a strong, silent deterrent or the intellectual sword of espionage beneath the sea, that war could not have been won.
John P. Craven...
HMS Rodney
Slayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitlers navy, the mighty Bismarck in a thrilling duel. The Rodney carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship finally succeeded in turning her adversary into twisted metal and so...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
At dawn, they saw her masts on the horizon and immediately prepared for battle. They were up against a formidable foe; the Admiral Graf Spee had already sunk nine British merchant ships in the South Atlantic. Now, her modern prototype diesel engines were set at maximum power and she was heading...
Countdown to Pearl Harbor
The Twelve Days to the Attack
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This “riveting” (Los Angeles Times), “crackerjack read” (Smithsonian) turns the lead-up to the most infamous day in American history into a ticking time-bomb thriller. Never before has a story you thought you knew proven so impossible to put down.
In Washington, DC, in late November...
Ship Ablaze
The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
The true story of one of the greatest tragedies in New York history
On June 15, 1904, the steamship General Slocum was heading from Manhattan to Long Island Sound when a fire erupted in one of the storage rooms. Faced with an untrained crew, crumbling life jackets, and inaccessible lifeboats,...
Racing Through the Night
Olympic's Attempt to Reach Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Entering service a full ten months ahead of Titanic, the Olympic was a near identical sister ship,the fi rst of a class of three liners, two of which would sink. Wade Sisson tells the story of the Olympic on the fateful night of April 14 - 15 1912, how she was 500 miles away, outbound from New York,...
The Vikings and Their Enemies
Warfare in Northern Europe, 750?1100
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A fresh account of some of history's greatest warriors.
The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe-raiding, exploring, colonizing-and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They...
Steel Boat, Iron Hearts
The Wartime Saga of Hans Goebeler and U-505
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Hans Goebeler is known as the man who pulled the plug on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. 'Steel Boat, Iron Hearts' is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard for every one of...
by Don Camsell
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Don Camsell joined the men in black of the SBS in 1974. From the deserts of Oman to the hills of Port Stanley, from the bottom of Gibraltar harbour to the deep, cold, black waters of Loch Long and from the QE2 to the back alleys of Belfast, his new role demanded that Don fought in just about every theatre of war - overt or covert.
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired...
Maritime Terrorism
Risk and Liability
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
Policymakers have become increasingly concerned in recent years about the possibility of future maritime terrorist attacks. Though the historical occurrence of such attacks has been limited, recognition that maritime vessels and facilities may be particularly vulnerable to terrorism has galvanized...
by Rob Mundle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The extraordinary story of how Dutch sailors found Australia and an English Pirate almost beat Captain Cook.
On 15 January 1688 - almost 100 years to the day before Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay as commander of the First Fleet - another English ship, the sixteen-gun Cygnet, was...
by Rob Mundle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail
The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition...
Waterloo
The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
#1 Bestseller in the U.K.
From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand.
On...