Naval

The Supercarriers is a comprehensive historical overview with extensive photos, maps, drawings, and operational detail, including all air-wing deployments. It covers all of the Forrestal class supercarriers and the follow-on ships, which are basically of...

This first general survey of European naval and maritime history for the period from A.D. 300 to 1500 focuses on Western Europe, including the Baltic, North Sea, and Atlantic traditions, and on the Mediterranean, particularly Byzantine and Moslem naval...

Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Peter Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China's ancient enmity...

Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/-76. Their primary task was area air defense. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander Netherlands Task Group). Their large radome (which housed a 3D radar antenna) is why the ships had the...

A critical survey of the vocabulary of Viking ships and their crews, of fleets and sailing and battles at sea, based on the runic and skaldic evidence from c.950-1100, and studied within the context of Viking activity in the period. The Vikings were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390557Author Ben SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

"Aircraft Carriers" is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar's revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and...

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both...

Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis. After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of...

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...

This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.S. Navy from 1873 to 1898. These dates bracket a dynamic quarter-century duringwhich Americans witnessed their navy transform from a modest imperial constabulary into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096740Author Anthony ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The "Smelyi" type destroyer, Project 30 bis (Skoryi class, according to NATO classification), was the first destroyer designed and built after World War two with new shipbuilding technologies available in the USSR. World War Two demonstrated that all...

In the U.S. Navy ""Wheel Books"" were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique to the Sailor carrying it, but all had in common a collection of data and wisdom that the individual...

A survey of the activities of the British navy in the Caribbean from the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake through the great wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries against the Dutch, Spanish...

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces made daily direct contact during the Cold War. Often confrontational and occasionally violent, air-to-air contacts alone killed more than...

The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established British dominance in Asian waters in the 19th century. The world's first iron warship, the first vessel with truly watertight compartments, and the first...

Made famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full chronicle of PT-109's wartime story has heretofore been lacking. Behind the familiar account of the future...

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

This book is an illustrated documentation showing the nuclear powered submarines of the Soviet Union and Russia, including rare photos of type overviews and interior details.Book InformationISBN 9780764313165Author Wilfried KopenhagenFormat PaperbackPage...

The Hussar V was launched in the early 1930s, first built for Marjorie Merriweather Post, owner of General Foods and heir to the Post Cereals fortune. By 1935, when Post married Joseph Davies, US ambassador to the Soviet Union, the ship was renamed Sea...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989980432Author John M MianoFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint John MianoPublisher John MianoWeight(grams) 1284gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm * 24mm

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...

A fascinating insight into an industry that shaped the Yorkshire landscape which will appeal to those interested in the history of the county, Keighley, knitting and our industrial heritage generally. Marriner's wool and patterns have clothed generations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456314682Author William Eugene WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is...

A small island in Halifax's beautiful Northwest Arm was the site for a British military prison from 1794 to 1816. More than 10,000 French, Spanish and American seamen, privateers and soldiers passed through the prison during its 22-year existence. Of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783337302528Author Samuel Rawson GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 528g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975626306Author Michael A MatrozosFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anonymous Publishing HousePublisher Anonymous Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937592301Author Harold W GoforthFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint FortisPublisher FortisWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

John Low came to America from England in 1856 at the suggestion of his uncle, Andrew Low, a prosperous Savannah- Liverpool businessman. Just as he established himself in nautical businesses in Savannah the Civil War broke out. Low was ordered to England...

A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593186671Author Stephen L. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451219565Author Barrett TillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

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An illustrated history of the American-built destroyers and frigates supplied to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, which played a crucial role in Britain's war in the Atlantic. As U-boat attacks on Britain’s vital sea lanes increased in ferocity, and...

A ship is not just a mode of transport, it is a life support system. Ideally, it provides fresh air at a comfortable temperature and humidity, healthy food and drink, adequate lighting at night and below deck (but without setting the ship on fire or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228172Author John B TisdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Arx PublishingPublisher Arx PublishingWeight(grams) 313g