Naval category: 2015 books
A Voice from the Main Deck
Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Samuel Leech (1798–1848) was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences, titled, in the manner of the time, "A Voice from the Main Deck".
Leech's nautical career...
John Paul Jones
Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy.
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey...
The War Below
The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
“Beautifully researched and masterfully told” (Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from the Deep), this is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific.
Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s...
A Blue Sea of Blood
Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall--under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java--split off from the USS Whipple and the tanker Pecos and was never seen again by Allied forces. Despite the later discovery of bodies...
The Pacific Campaign in World War II
From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific.
Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the...
In the Highest Degree Tragic
The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
When Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, nothing like it had ever been seen before. Heralded by the insidious whine of Stuka dive-bombers, seven divisions of Panzers rolled across the border supported by motorized infantry. While tanks were punching gaping holes through Polish lines and racing...
Victory in Europe: D-Day to the fall of Berlin
D-Day to the Fall of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
By midnight on 6 June 1944, the future of Europe hung in the balance. Allied troops occupied beachheads as Hitler's troops threatened to drive them back into the sea. Karen Farrington presents this remarkable story of the final Allied liberation and the push through to Berlin, the beating heart of the Third Reich.
by Geoff Tibballs
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves.
The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by historians, novelists and film producers...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
GUADALCANAL: Starvation Island by Eric Hammel =- The Japanese defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal decided the outcome of the Pacific War. Guadalcanal was the classic three-dimensional campaign. On land, at sea, and in the air, fierce battles were fought with both sides stretching their supplies and equipment...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
CARRIER CLASHThe Invasion of Guadalcanal &the Battle of the Eastern SolomonsAugust 1942Eric HammelThe Battle of the Eastern Solomons was historys third carrier clash. A collision of U.S. Navy and Imperial Navy carriers in the wake of the invasion of Guadalcanalwhose airfield the United States desperately...
Over the Wire
A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Philip Newman, a British army doctor left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick – and planning to escape.
After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive...
Tirpitz The Life and Death of Germany's Last Supper Battleship
The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
The story of the battleship TirpitzBismarcks sister shipand the desperate Allied efforts to destroy it. After the Royal Navys bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truththe German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
ACES AGAINST JAPAN The American Aces Speak Eric Hammel In this superb, originally conceived offering, noted military historian, Eric Hammel brings us first-person accounts from thirty-nine American fighter aces who blasted their way across the skies of the Pacific and East Asia from December 7, 1941,...