Naval Institute Press: 579 books
by Anthony J. Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the defense of Britain. Without denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming challenges the effectiveness of the Royal Air Force in 1940 and...
by Daniel V. Gallery
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In June 1944, U.S. Navy Task Group 22.3, a "hunter-killer" force commanded by Daniel Gallery to track down German submarines, boarded and captured U-505 off the coast of Africa. It was the first time that an enemy ship of war had been captured on the high seas by U.S. Navy sailors since 1815, when the...
The Unseen War
Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The Unseen War offers a comprehensive assessment of the air contribution to the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2003. Unlike in the earlier instance of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the role of allied air power in the nation’s second war against Iraq...
A Handful of Bullets
How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Great War or the War to end all Wars” as promised by President Woodrow Wilson was neither great nor ultimately conclusive. Precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in the streets of Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, World War I demolished the...
Gunn Sights
Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes Industry of International Aerospace
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Tom Gunn had a life-altering career change in 1975 when he went from an eight-year stint as staff lawyer with the U.S. Senate to a job in aerospace sales and marketing at McDonnell Douglas. He knew a lot about military appropriations and classified developments, but almost nothing about marketing. Over...
Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
Six Characteristics of High Performance Teams
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the Hanoi Hilton” so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers? This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere. The authors offer examples...
Potomac Fever
A Memoir of Politics and Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
After a highly successful career in investment banking with his own firm and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, J. William Middendorf became restive and looked for new challenges. Having learned how to make money,” he writes in this memoir, he wanted to learn how to make a difference.”...
Leadership in Dangerous Situations
A Handbook for the Armed Forces, Emergency Services, and First Responders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Leadership in Dangerous Situations provides in-depth coverage of the key psychological, social and organization factors that impact individual and organizational effectiveness for First Responders in dangerous environments. Leading scholars discuss how current theories and empirical research provides...
by William Tuttle, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The last comprehensive study of defense logistics was published in 1959. In the ensuing forty-five years a revolutionary change in information technology and defense strategy has swept the field and mandated a new understanding of the objectives and principles of military logistics. The author, renowned...
The Military Advantage, 2014 Edition
The Military.com Guide to Military and Veteran's Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Military Advantage, 2014 Edition is the most complete annual reference guide to Military and Veteran’s benefits. Written by Terry Howell, Managing Editor for Benefits for Military.com, the guide is backed by the resources of Military.com and its parent company, Monster.com. The Military Advantage,...
The Hostile Sky
A Hellcat Flyer in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old college student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program and by the spring of 1945 was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS Ticonderoga off of the coast of Japan. This memoir of his years at war provides a carrier pilot's...
Katusha
Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
"On Sunday, June 22, 1941, the morning after Katusha’s graduation, the Germans invade the Soviet Union. As enemy forces occupy Kiev, Ukraine, Katusha and her family learn the Nazis are not there to liberate them from harsh communist rule, but to conquer. They discover there is a special danger...
Punk's War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
An F-14 aviator takes his readers into the cockpits, ready-rooms, and bunkrooms of today's Navy to show what it's like to fight in a time of so-called peace. From the opening chapter where a Tomcat fighter squadron's commanding officer botches an intercept of a hostile Iranian F-4 to the final uplifting...
by Yoshida Mitsuru, Richard Minear
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
A young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.