Naval category: 2015 books

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The Naval Route to the Abyss

The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914

by Matthew S. Seligmann, Frank Nägler
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major cause of the Great War, it has become emblematic...
Cover of Distributed Maritime Capability: Optimized U.S. Navy - U.S. Coast Guard Interoperability, A Case in the South China Sea - Currently Not Adequately Prepared for Conflict with China's PLA Navy
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018

This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study asks whether or not the U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) are sufficiently prepared to operate together if conflict escalates in an area of forward-deployed...
Cover of Seaforth World Naval Review
by Conrad Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Now firmly established as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, this annual combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects,...
Cover of ABC’s of Naval Weaponry
by David Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

ABC’s of Naval Weaponry sets sail with the historical vessels and weapons that made naval power what it is. From ancient war ships, to the age of sail, to iron clads, to the modern age. Done in the style of a children’s ABC book, with a unique vessel or weapon selected for each letter, and its...
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Sea of Thunder

Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945

by Evan Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006

Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific in a way that blends the best of military and cultural history and riveting narrative drama. He follows four men throughout: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo...
Cover of The Twilight Warriors
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

Winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war during World War II: Okinawa. April 1945. The end...
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Guiding Lights

Monuments and Memorials at the U.S. Naval Academy

by Nancy Arbuthnot
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012

In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the Academy's monuments and memorials. To personalize the memorials and the naval figures they honor, she has included letters, firsthand battle reports, Lucky Bag commentaries, award...
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Project Azorian

The CIA and the Raising of the K-129

by Norman C. Polmar, Michael White
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010

Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under the...
Cover of Life of a Sailor
by Frederick Chamier
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamier’s story-telling skills but it is wrong – the...
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Storm Over Leyte

The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy

by John Prados
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II—the greatest naval battle in history. As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral...
Cover of Women in the Navy: The Challenges
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing...
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The Rules of the Game

Jutland and British Naval Command

by Andrew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme,...
Cover of The Campaign of Trafalgar — 1805. Vol. II.
by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Of the many campaigns in the long history of Britain, naval and otherwise, there have been few more momentous than the campaign in the Mediterranean in 1804-5 culminating in the battle of Trafalgar. They spawned a national hero in the figure of heroic lord Nelson, one-armed and blind in one eye, dying...
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Broadsides

The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815

by Nathan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008

Praise for BROADSIDES "Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immortality upon him; envision with Mahan the storm-tossed and ever-watchful ships-of-the-line that kept England secure from invasion; wonder in...
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