Naval forces and warfare

The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables.

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For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers.

"e;We were certainly pioneers as the Trieste was one of only two such vehicles in the world-the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS-3 was the other.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

Drawing on extensive State Department files, declassified Navy policy papers, interviews with both former top officials and individuals who were involved in incidents, David F.

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers.

After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland.

American Amphibious Warfare offers analysis of the early amphibious landing operations from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.

HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.

As We Recall is the first book of its kind.

Since 1977 Nathan Miller's concise history of the U.

More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service's core values.

All naval professionals-without exception-encounter, directly participate, or play a supporting role in naval cooperation.

From unpromising beginnings in March 1942, the Allied submarine base at Fremantle on the west coast of Australia became a vital part of the Allied offensive against Japan.

Since the 1980s, strategic sealift has been formally designated as a U.

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In the early nineteenth century, the United States of America was far from united.

Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.

This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the southern States during the American Civil War.

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940.

For more than two decades William S.

Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm.

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "e;Renaissance admiral.

The Supercarriers is a comprehensive historical overview with extensive photos, maps, drawings, and operational detail, including all air-wing deployments.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

Naval officers and enlisted personnel undergo extensive training to cope with the special demands of their duties at sea and ashore, but what about their spouses and children?

More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II.

Written 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.

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Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water during World War II-and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their contributions to the war effort.

When U-234 slipped out of a Norwegian harbor in March 1945 destined for Japan, it was loaded with some of the most technically advanced weaponry and electronic detection devices of the era, along with a select group of officials.

While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia.

A research analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses offers a rare historical account of the Royal and U.

The Office of Naval Research, known widely as ONR, was formed in 1946 largely to support the pursuit of basic science to help ensure future U.

Far China Station was the first work to put nineteenth century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective.

In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "e;Dreadnought Revolution"e; of 1906.

The geopolitical situation in the Mediterranean before the First World War has been generally ignored by historians.

This is the true life story of the Scottish gardener's son, John Paul, who became America's greatest naval hero, John Paul Jones.

merican seapower requires a robust constellation of bases to support global power projection.

When submarines failed to return to port from patrol, they were officially listed by the Navy as overdue and presumed lost.

Bill Lawrence served his country for thirty-seven years in a remarkable naval career filled with triumphs and adversities.

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When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.

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The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

Despite its reputation as the most impressive naval force in the world, the U.