Naval

Thanks to the PBY's daring pilots and their effective tactics, the slow outdated Catalina patrol bombers became the scourge of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific during World War II. Painted black and hunting at night, the Black Cats, as they were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934840160Author Fred T JaneFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 1334g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385699054Author R P SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Frontier India TechnologyPublisher Frontier India TechnologyWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540204769Author Amy Waters YarsinskeFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

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Charles Stewart's life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick O'Brien's fictional hero, Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy captain and served longer (63 years) than any officer in American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193005552Author Sushil K N (Retd)Format PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Frontier India TechnologyPublisher Frontier India Technology

The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later...

The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century fills an important void in the history of Canada's navy. Those who carry the burden of high command have a critical niche in not only guiding the day-to-day concerns of running an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608882403Author Fred T JaneFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 1334g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574885361Author A. Jay CristolFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Brassey's USPublisher Potomac Books Inc

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During the first quarter of the 20th century, the major naval powers of the world built hundreds of Dreadnought-style battleships. Today there is only one. The battleship Texas was for a time the most powerful weapon on earth. When it was commissioned in...

Originally published in 1972, Christopher McKee's biography of Edward Preble remains the most authoritative source on this influential early shaper of the U.S. naval tradition. McKee documents Preble's rise from obscurity to become Thomas Jefferson's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512805123Author Frank Lawrence OwsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608880911Author W Frederick ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 216g

Charles Stewart's life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick O'Brien's fictional hero, Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy captain and served longer (63 years) than any officer in American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596292925Author Eugene, Ph.D. AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039129153Author M L BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 1052Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 216g

The Boston Marine Barracks is one of the oldest in the U.S.: it stands within eyeshot of the USS Constitution. Lt. Col. John R. Yates Jr., the last commanding officer of the Barracks when it closed in 1974, researched the hundreds of letters left behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574883367Author Dennis L. NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Brassey's USPublisher Potomac Books Inc

Sailing on Friday recounts the growth and decline of what twice became the world's most powerful maritime flect. This is a tale of operatic dimension, peopled with patriots, politicians, industrial geniuses, fearless seamen, and gallant swashbucklers. It...

The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the nineteenth century, she became famous as Admiral George Dewey's flagship at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498041713Author Ralph ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 463g

America's Anchor articulates the naval history of the Delaware River and Bay, spanning the three centuries from discovery to the end of the Second World War. Offering a narrative tale of ships, and the men from the Delaware Valley who sailed them, it...

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war on their own, isolated from the rest of the U.S. naval forces. Their fate in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498128704Author Frederick HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 692Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 912g

With a unique prewar history as a snagboat and James B. Eads' noted catamaran salvage vessel, the Benton survived a tumultuous government acquisition process and conversion to become flagship of the Union's Civil War Western river navy. From Island No...

This book addresses the issues raised by Chinese and North Korean maritime ‘gray zone’ activities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.For years, China has been harassing its neighbors in South China Sea and East China Sea, employing both coast guard and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467135269Author Joseph G. BilbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421835426Author Gerald A CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint 1st World PublishingPublisher 1st World PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence. Over the centuries, and with particular velocity over recent decades, the techniques of detecting and destroying military (and commercial) shipping have improved,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250853493Author Doug StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 137g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781163425091Author John MasefieldFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Kessinger PublishingPublisher Kessinger PublishingWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738575322Author Gina NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Between the last battle fought entirely under oars in 1571 and the first fought entirely under steam in 1866, naval warfare in the Middle Seas and adjacent Atlantic waters was dominated by the sailing warship. This exploration of that distinct period in...

Now in paperback for the first time, this collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colourful naval leaders who guided the U.S. Navy through four turbulent decades of transition. Interpretive in approach, each essay emphasises...

Perhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the duration of the war--brought down the Confederacy. The daring exploits of Confederate blockade...