Naval

In an overview of naval campaigns from 1939 to 1945, a military historian explains how sea power changed the course of World War II, depicts pivotal battles, and analyzes each nation's naval tactics and strategy.Book InformationISBN 9780684839141Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425253625Author Jerome PreislerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312335809Author Peter EarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

In 1972, the U.S. was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to the gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war rioted - or, as this book suggests, mutinied. Disturbingly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113928Author Roy AdkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm *...

This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the...

The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation forty-three more years to create a similar school for the navy? The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990572428Author Robert NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Patriot Media, IncorporatedPublisher Patriot Media, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 245g

On January 16, 1944, the submarine rescue vessel USS Macaw (ASR-11) ran aground at Midway Atoll while attempting to get a towing line to the stranded submarine USS Flier (SS-250). The Flier was pulled free six days later, but another three weeks of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451221322Author David SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978763787Author Steven L WatermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Findtech LtdPublisher Findtech LtdWeight(grams) 152g

When the U.S.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, it set off the Spanish-American War, that "splendid little war" which forever changed the United States' position among nations. "Remember the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765324573Author Larry BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ForgePublisher ForgeWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692679371Author Jeannie DeppFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Aykeen PressPublisher Aykeen PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692674888Author Joe KrausFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Celebrity GalleriesPublisher Celebrity GalleriesWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692483596Author Barbara Perkins BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Timekeepers PressPublisher Timekeepers PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615605708Author Art GibersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ArtgibbooksPublisher ArtgibbooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932770Author Peter MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1941, the destroyers of the 5th Emergency Flotilla became known as S-class and served as fleet and convoy escorts in World War II. In the last months of the war, three were transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474537001Author E Keble ChattertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 435g

This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship's history and...

India is poised to resurge as a maritime power, with cooperative engagement as its most prominent pan-regional characteristic. Enabled by a sound national strategy within the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, this would enable successive governments to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187966951Author Admiral Ravi VohraFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Knowledge World InternationalPublisher Knowledge World International

A history of the Soviet Navy's cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II. The Soviet Navy of World War II boasted a cruiser fleet that was among the most eclectic to see service. In...

The emergence of the professional naval officer was related both to the necessities of naval warfare and to the structure of society on land. Originally warships were manned by two separate sets of commanders - gentleman soldiers skilled in fighting, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637587737Author Captain Neal J KusumotoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Knox PressPublisher Knox PressWeight(grams) 386g

The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai-the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had...

For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meager presence...

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union decorated 217 men of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine who had performed "heroic acts" during convoy and anti-submarine duties in the Atlantic. For the last decade, David...

Covering more than two centuries of naval history, this chronology highlights the individuals and events that shaped one of the world's greatest fighting forces-the United States Navy. The United States Navy: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present showcases...

This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many...

A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force. What it should do, what doctrine it holds, what ships it deploys, and how it fights are determined by practical political and military choices in relation to national needs. Choices are made...

As the first comprehensive account of Canada's maritime defense of the West Coast during the early Cold War, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Royal Canadian Navy, maritime air forces, and Canadian defence policy during...

When U-172, commanded by Carl Emmermann left Kiel on 22 April 1942, the second lucky period for German submarines was ending with the Americans setting up convoys along their coast. From the beginning of the conflict, the means of fighting submarines...

The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earth, unpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there. For this reason people remain fascinated by its tides, currents, and mysteries. Life and Death at Cape Disappointment is the author’s first-hand...

The Navy's latest 30-year shipbuilding plan has a force of 33 amphibious warfare ships as its objective. The primary purpose of those ships in wartime is to carry Marine Corps units overseas and to support and sustain them as they deploy ashore. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589804739Author Ernest FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine historian - and a wonderful writer' Peter Frankopan, author of the bestselling The Silk Roads. 'The name of William Barents isn't that familiar to us these days...but this enthralling,...

This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to...