Naval

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea.The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the...

Protected cruiser (Pantserdekschip) HNLMS Gelderland was a Holland-class cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This class, of six ships, was considered a modest, but well thought-out design. At a speed of 10 knots the radius of action would have been...

The ships of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class were designed in the United States in the mid-1970's as general-purpose escort vessels. They were inexpensive enough to be bought in large quantities and replace older ships. Meant to protect amphibious landing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012778Author Peter PadfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942316Author Anthony CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger and capable carriers in 1927 with five more being built prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor including three large...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902953618Author Malcolm CranfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Bernard McCallPublisher Bernard McCall

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400046959Author Dick CouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The history of the design, development, and deployment of the famed WWII battleship USS Alabama! The fourth and final battleship in the South Dakota class, the USS Alabama served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II, participating...

Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare describes the fighting techniques of navies throughout the ages, from ancient times to the present day. The book explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available, and points out...

A thorough photographic history of the US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team. Since 1946, the world-famous US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team has performed in airshows in the United States and around the world. This book details...

This illustrated book covers the complete history of the United States' Los Angeles class attack submarines from initial design and construction, through testing and trials, to its current operations. The nuclear-powered USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399178665Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's...

HMS Leander was completed in 1963 as the first ship of the Leander Class Improved Type 12 General Purpose Frigates. In 1974, she joined the 3rd Frigate Squadron, which included other Leander-class frigates. The design was the most successful Western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800554115Author John WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

For three centuries Portsmouth has been the leading base of the Royal Navy, although its history as a port can be traced back to Roman times. From the Roman walls at Portchester to the best preserved Georgian dockyard in the world, and HMS Victory the...

The latest volume covers the hugely important American carrier of the Second World War. Built in larger numbers than any fleet carrier before or since, the Essex class can claim to be the US Navy's most significant weapon in the defeat of Japan. Carrying...

This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences, mirrored here in words and pictures. The pictures are memories of...

A vivid narrative history of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns of World War II, which represented key turning points in the U.S. Navy's campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific. From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903630686Author Hugh HarkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Centurion PublishingPublisher Centurion Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878426843Author Ernest ArroyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pictorial Histories Publishing CompanyPublisher Pictorial Histories Publishing...

Submarine duty in World War II took the lives of more than 20 percent of U.S. submariners. As a young ensign, William J. Ruhe kept a journal on eight action-filled patrols in the South Pacific. His colorful memoir has earned a place with the best naval...

Submarine duty in World War II took the lives of more than 20 percent of U.S. submariners. As a young ensign, William J. Ruhe kept a journal on eight action-filled patrols in the South Pacific. His colorful memoir has earned a place with the best naval...

The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Her story spans 51 years (1961-2012) of active service from the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis to the first global cruise by nuclear-powered ships...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Author Jason Porter is the Director of Education + Programs at MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture) in Seattle. Previously, he was the Director of Education and Public...

Meticulously researched, Rodger's portrait draws the reader into this fascinatingly complex world with vivid, entertaining characters and full details of life below the decks. The Wooden World provides the most complete history of a navy at any age, and...

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall's often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the...

This new and updated edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues, and debates, set within the context of...

The SS Red Oak Victory is now a museum ship in Richmond, California. It is a cargo ship of the type Victory. It was put into service at the end of 1944 and remained in service until 1968.The ship was built in three months at the large Permanente Metals...

This compelling book provides the first global history of the evolution of combined operations since Antiquity. Beginning with amphibious warfare in the ancient world of the Romans, Vikings, and Mongols, Jeremy Black advances through the Gunpowder...

One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761042010Author Mike CarltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760794774Author Kathryn SpurlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 474g

The four battleships of the Iowa class, the crowning achievement of US battleship construction, had exceptionally long careers and each in their way left a distinctive mark not only on the US Navy but on naval history at large. Built as the ultimate...

No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the landing craft he perfected. Those craft, the WWII LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, and LCM, are presented in this volume (the first of two on...

Sighted Sub, Sank Same examines the United States Naval air campaign against German U-boats prowling for allied merchant shipping traversing the waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean; an economic war waged to cut the lifeline of food and...

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833058973Author John F. SchankFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840374162Author Leo MarriottFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher Airlife Publishing Ltd