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The 'Stan by Kevin Knodell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49The 'Stan is a collection of short comics about America's longest war. The tales in this book--based on reporting by David Axe and Kevin Knodell and drawn by artist Blue Delliquanti-are all true and... -
Combat in the Sky: Airpower and the Defense of North Vietnam, 1965-1973 by Dong Sy Hung 9781612510279
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £29.18Fought in the skies over North Vietnam, the air war between Vietnamese People’s Air Force (VNPAF) and U.S. airpower lasted nearly eight years with hundreds of thousands of combat missions carried out... -
The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise by Edward P. Stafford 9781557509987
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.05A lasting memorial to the USS Enterprise, this classic tale of the carrier that contributed more than any other single warship to the naval victory in the Pacific has remained a favorite World War II... -
Introduction to Naval Engineering by David Blank 9781591140771
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £39.31This second edition of the basic textbook in shipboard engineering presents the latest information on steam, gas turbine, and nuclear propulsion, as well as auxiliary systems, ship stability, and... -
Command Under Sail: Makers of the American Naval Tradition 1775-1850 by James C. Bradford 9781591140597
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.56This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history. The period from 1775 to 1850 was a trying time for the infant navy, a time when much was demanded... -
Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958 by Kenneth Conboy 9781682473450
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar... -
Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke: The Story of a Fighting Sailor by Ken Jones 9781557500182
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Written by two World War II veterans who later became well-known war correspondents, this biography records the inspiring life of one of America's great naval heroes. Popularly referred to as... -
Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo by Jeffrey Record 9781612515823
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use--or not use--force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to the... -
Bull Halsey by E. B. Potter 9781591146919
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.55Applauded by the public and revered by the men who served under him, Adm. William F. Halsey was one of the leading American personalities of World War II. His reputation as a no-holds-barred fighter... -
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller 9781591145004
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.55`A masterly study of the evolution of history's most successful war plan' -The New York Times Book Review `A magnificent book'- General Colin L. Powell Based on twenty years of research in... -
The Oral History of Adm. James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.): 1955- by James G. Stavridis 9781682699942
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £49.19The Naval Institute Press is proud to present the long-awaited oral history of Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.). Admiral Stavridis, who recently retired as Dean of the Fletcher School of Law... -
The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John B. Lundstrom 9781591144717
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £23.66Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare. From the... -
Fields of Fire by James Webb 9781557509635
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.75Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb that now includes four bestselling... -
Operation KE: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal by Dennis R. Letourneau 9781682471371
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.90Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943 -a topic which has hitherto received very little attention. Operation KE was successful largely... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Paul D. Stroop, USN (Ret.): 1904-1995 by Vice Adm. Paul D. Stroop, USN (Ret.) 9781682690383
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.87After graduation and duty in the USS Arkansas (BB-33), Admiral Stroop competed in gymnastics in the Olympic Games of 1928. He then trained and was designated naval aviator. When Pearl Harbor was... -
Mig Master: The Story of the F-8 Crusader, Second Edition by Barrett Tillman 9781591148685
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18For professional aviators and aviation buffs alike, this biography brings to life the legendary aircraft that scored the highest kill ratio of any U.S. fighter aircraft in the Vietnam War. The... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Roland N. Smoot, USN (Ret.): 1901-1984 by Vice Adm. Roland N. Smoot, USN (Ret.) 9781682690451
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.96After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1923 and earning his MA in Eengineering from Penn State in 1930, Smoot served in the submarine USS Narwhal (SS-167) until 1933. During World War II he was... -
Iwo by Richard Wheeler 9781557509222
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18The story of one of the bloodiest battles in history, resulting in the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, is documented with a personal touch; the author himself was a member of that... -
The Reminiscences of Capt. Thomas H. Dyer, USN (Ret.): 1902-1985 by Thomas H. Dyer, USN (Ret.) 9781682690093
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £45.80This is the memoir of one of the most respected codebreakers of World War II. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1924, Dyer served in the battleship New Mexico (BB-40). During this duty his... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. William I. Martin, USN (Ret.): 1910-1996 by Vice Adm. William I. Martin, USN (Ret.) 9781682691618
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £42.57Two of the main contributions of this oral history are in describing Admiral Martin's work as a naval aviation pioneer, particularly in the area of night and all-weather flying, and his repeated... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Charles S. Minter Jr., USN (Ret.), vol. I: 1915-2008 by Vice Adm. Charles S. Minter, Jr., USN (Ret.) 9781682691779
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00Designated as naval aviator in 1941, Admiral Minter served as a bomber pilot in antisubmarine patrols and convoy coverage flights in the North Atlantic. Later was XO of patrol squadron in Trinidad... -
The Reminiscences of Capt. Grayson Merrill, USN (Ret.): 1912-2011 by Grayson Merrill, USN (Ret.) 9781682691700
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £32.94Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1934, Merrill served in the battleship West Virginia (BB-48) and destroyers USS Brooks (DD-232) and USS Dorsey (DD-117). In 1937 he became a naval... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Charles S. Minter Jr., USN (Ret.), vol. II: 1915-2008 by Vice Adm. Charles S. Minter, Jr., USN (Ret.) 9781682691786
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00Designated as naval aviator in 1941, Admiral Minter served as a bomber pilot in antisubmarine patrols and convoy coverage flights in the North Atlantic. Later was XO of patrol squadron in Trinidad... -
The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Albert G. Mumma, USN (Ret.): 1906-1997 by Albert G. Mumma, USN (Ret.) 9781682691816
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00This is one of the most technical oral histories in the Naval Institute's collection because of Admiral Mumma's long service as an engineering duty specialist. After his graduation from the Naval... -
The Reminiscences of Adm. Harry D. Train II, USN (Ret.): 1927- by Harry D. Train, II, USN (Ret.) 9781682692516
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £42.03Because he grew up in a Navy family, Train was imbued from childhood with the goal of attending the Naval Academy. His career as a midshipman included playing center on the football team that played... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Joe Williams Jr., USN (Ret.): 1922-2015 by Joe Williams 9781682692684
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £42.57This volume describes a remarkable career that began when Williams entered boot camp in 1940 and then went through machinist's mate school at the Ford Motor Company. He served 1941-44 in the seaplane... -
The Oral History of Adm. Thomas H. Collins, USCG (Ret.): 1946- by Thomas H. Collins 9781682699713
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00Admiral Collins served for an eventful 38 years, from the time he entered the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in the summer of 1964 until his retirement as the 22nd Commandant of the Coast Guard in May 2006... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Lloyd M. Mustin, USN (Ret.), vol. 2: 1911-1999 by Vice Adm. Lloyd M. Mustin, USN (Ret.) 9781682690154
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £58.03This is the longest oral history, in terms of number of interviews and number of words, ever conducted by the Naval Institute. Between the two volumes, the transcript comprises nearly 600,000 words... -
The Reminiscences of Adm. Charles Donald Griffin, USN (Ret.), vol. II: 1906-1996 by Charles Donald Griffin, USN (Ret.) 9781682691168
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £45.80The first volume overs his early career up to his command of the Seventh Fleet. Was designated naval aviator in 1930 and served as scouting pilot in the Chester, then Scouting Squadron Six in the USS... -
The Reminiscences of Mr. James E. Hair, Member of the Golden Thirteen: 1915-1992 by Mr. James E. Hair 9781682691175
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.96As the member of a large family, Mr. Hair grew up in South Carolina and Florida at a time when life in the South was still rigidly segregated. In 1935 his brother-in-law Estes Wright, a man Hair... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Olaf M. Hustvedt, USN (Ret.): 1886-1978 by Vice Adm. Olaf M. Hustvedt, USN (Ret.) 9781682691243
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00After graduation from the USNA in 1909, he served in the armored cruiser West Virginia (Armored Cruiser No. 5), cruising from the West Coast to many ports in the Orient. Following studies at George... -
The Reminiscences of Adm. John J. Hyland Jr., USN (Ret.), vol. I: 1912-1999 by John J. Hyland, Jr, USN (Ret.) 9781682691250
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00Hyland was designated a naval aviator three years after his graduation with the Naval Academy class of 1934. He was with Patrol Squadron 102 at the outbreak of World War II, and participated in the... -
The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Doniphan B. Shelton, USN (Ret.): 1921-2021 by Doniphan B. Shelton, USN (Ret.) 9781682692301
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £32.94Following boyhood in Missouri, Shelton entered the Navy in 1939 as an enlisted man. He served in the battleships USS New Mexico (BB-40) and USS California (BB-44) before attending prep school and... -
The Reminiscences of Vice Adm. John L. McCrea, USN (Ret.): 1891-1990 by Vice Adm. John L. McCrea, USN (Ret.) 9781682472378
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00Even though in his 90s when the interviews were completed, McCrea demonstrated a remarkable memory for details in talking about his naval career. He was a Naval Academy midshipman in 1914 when his... -
The Reminiscences of Adm. Harry Donald Felt, USN (Ret.), vol. II: 1902-1992 by Harry Donald Felt, USN (Ret.) 9781682691083
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00The first volume covers career up to assignment as CinCPac in 1958. Served five years in battleships and destroyers. In 1929 was designated naval aviator and served with Scouting Squadron Three in... -
The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Samuel B. Frankel, USN (Ret.): 1905-1996 by Samuel B. Frankel, USN (Ret.) 9781682691120
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £51.88In the early part of his career Frankel served in the USS Trenton (CL-11) Augusta (CA-31), Chester (CA-27), and Chaumont (AP-5). Following this sea duty, he was Russian language student in Riga,... -
The Reminiscences of Adm. Harold Page Smith, USN (Ret.): 1904-1993 by Harold Page Smith, USN (Ret.) 9781682692332
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £32.94The main ingredients in this oral history are Admiral Smith's recollections of service in two battleships, the USS Arizona (BB-39) in 1928-29 and the USS Missouri (BB-63) in 1949-50. As a captain he... -
The Reminiscences of Adm. Willard J. Smith, USCG (Ret.): 1910-2000 by Willard J. Smith, USCG (Ret.) 9781682692363
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £43.37After graduation from the Coast Guard Academy in 1933, Smith served a tour in the cutter USCGC Saranac before reporting to Washington for the first of two tours as aide to long-time commandant... -
The Reminiscences of Capt. Henri Smith-Hutton, USN (Ret.), vol. II: 1901-1977 by Henri Smith-Hutton, USN (Ret.) 9781682692387
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.00Anyone with an interest in the operations of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet during the pre-World War II period will find much of interest in this memoir. Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1922,... -
The Reminiscences of Capt. Willard G. Triest, CEC, USNR (Ret.): 1905-1989 by Willard G. Triest, CEC, USNR (Ret.) 9781682699119
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £31.98Captain Triest joined the Civil Engineer Corps in 1941, and his first assignment was the design and logistics for building a secret base, "Bobcat," as a refueling station in the Christmas Islands. He...