Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Takedown
The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was...
In the Gray Area
A Marine Advisor Team at War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In the Gray Area builds on Seth Folsom’s earlier award-winning memoir, The Highway War, which described his 2003 command of one of the first Marine light armored reconnaissance battalion companies to march on Baghdad. In February 2008, he was deployed to Iraq again as the leader of a U.S. Marine advisor...
The Swamp Fox
Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May...
Taiwan's Statesman
Lee Teng-hui and Democracy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A well-known observer of Taiwan and Asian history and culture provides an insightful biography of Lee Teng Hui, the pro-democracy statesman and former president of the Republic of China. As head of the Taiwanese government from 1988 to 2000, Lee managed, without violence or major civil unrest, to reform...
Rough Rider
The Life of Teddy Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Rough Rider is a snapshot study of the significant career of President Theodore Roosevelt. Partly biographical sketch and partly analysis, the book provides an overview of his actions, ideals, and written works, highlighting important events from Roosevelt’s early public life, his presidency, and later...
Anatomy of Failure
Why America Loses Every War It Starts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Since the end of World War II, America lost every war it started and failed in military interventions when it did not use sound strategic thinking or have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the circumstances in deciding to use force. The public and politicians need to understand why we have...
The Last Lincoln Conspirator
John Surratt's Flight from the Gallows
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Despite all that has been written about the April 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the story of John Surratt-the only conspirator who got away-remains untold and largely unknown. The capture and shooting of John Wilkes Booth twelve days after he shot Lincoln is a well-known and well-covered...
Bankrupting the Enemy
The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Award-winning author Edward S. Miller contends in this new work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggression. While researching newly declassified records of the Treasury and Federal Reserve, Miller, a retired chief financial executive of a Fortune 500 resources...
An Unsung Soldier
The Life of Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster was one of the leading soldier-scholars of his time. He was one of the key figures during the Cold War - one who stood among the dominant American military and political personalities of those times. Goodpaster served Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in establishing the international...
by John Limond Hart
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger. In this book a seasoned CIA field operator and station chief looks at what drove these agents to betray their...
Washington's Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950
From Abandonment to Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The declaration of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949 presented American foreign policy officials with two dilemmas: how to deal with the communist government on the mainland and what to do about Chiang Kai-shek’s holdout Nationalist regime on Taiwan. By early 1950 these questions were...
Disaster on the Mississippi
The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
At two o’clock in the morning on 27 April 1865, seven miles north of Memphis on the Mississippi, the sidewheel steamboat Sultana’s boilers suddenly exploded. Legally registered to carry 376 people, the boat was packed with 2,100 recently released Union prisoners-of-war. Over 1,700 people died, making...
MH/CHAOS
The CIA'S Campaign Against the Radical New Left and the Black Panthers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Operation MH/CHAOS was the code name for a domestic espionage project conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in the late1960s and early 1970s. MH/CHAOS: The CIA’s Campaign Against the Radical New Left and the Black Panters is an insider’s account of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Staff’s...
Ruff's War
A Navy Nurse on the Frontline in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Twenty-five years in the Navy had made Cheryl Ruff an independent, resilient, strong woman - and a master at providing patient care while serving at various Navy hospitals around the world. But nothing prepared her mind, body, soul, and spirit for what she experienced on the frontlines of the Iraq war...