Naval forces and warfare

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Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840 - 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, termed "e;the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Fire from the Sky is the first complete history of the most decorated Navy squadron of the Vietnam War.

Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory.

The need for freedoms of navigation in regional waters is frequently mentioned in statements from regional forums, but a common understanding of what constitutes a particular freedom of navigation or the relevant law is lacking.

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.

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

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.

The history of one of the greatest acts of deception as Kriegsmarine raiders disguised as merchant ships wrecked havoc on Allied shipping and the Allied cruisers who finally destroyed them.

An examination of the 'small boat' war between the Germans and the British in the English Channel.

Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.

Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.

A highly illustrated account of the fourth major carrier battle of the war in the Pacific.

Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward.

This collection of 51 essays provides a history of amphibious landings that include European, Asian, and American operations.

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards.

"e;Goulty tells the story from the perspective of the ordinary sailor or officer who was there.

A fascinating account of his extraordinary life and timesRecord of naval history in the first half of the 19th century.

A highly illustrated account of the naval battles of Coronel and the Falklands in 1914, which saw the destruction of both British and German squadrons.

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace.

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs.

Strategic Hedging in the Arab Peninsula: The Politics of the Gulf-Asian Rapprochement offers a new perspective on the geopolitics of Gulf-Asian relations.

Starting with a brief history of western naval medical care from the ancient Greeks and proceeding to modern times, this book chronicles the evolution of the Navy's first west coast hospital, the Mare Island Naval Hospital, as it grew from a "e;palatial"e; but primitive facility in the 1860s to the Navy's premier amputee center for Marines and sailors returning from the brutal Pacific war.

Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation.

In the years between 1776 and 1815, grand square-rigged sailing ships dominated warfare on the high seas.

The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War.

World War II was over and the U.

At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm.

Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion.

Ideal for enthusiasts of WWII naval aviation, this illustrated volume covers the unequal clash between the United States and Imperial Japanese navies that destroyed the IJN's ability to conduct further carrier operations.

Designed for busy junior officers in the U.

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

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.

The Decline of European Naval Forces aims to provide insight into the evolution of Europe's naval forces since the end of the Cold War.

In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and operate.

How did Britain manage the transportation of large numbers of troops to French controlled territory during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and successfully land them?

Employing rigorous analysis and lively narrative alongside specially commissioned artwork, this study casts new light on the rivalry between two vessels of war in the Mediterranean.

The remarkable World War II story of PC 1264's crew of fifty African-American enlisted men as recounted by the ship's captain

In the build-up to World War II both the United States and Japan believed their battleships would play a central role in battle, but after the Pacific War began in December 1941, the role of the battleship proved to be much more limited than either side expected.

This naval history of the Delaware Estuary spans three centuries, from the arrival of the Europeans to the end of the World War II.

An illustrated study of the uniforms and personal equipment worn by the personnel of the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy of the Third Reich, from 1935 45.

The autobiography of Tony Bentley-Buckle, a child of the Empire who was left to grow up in the care of maiden aunts.

A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I.

Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion.

During the Second World War, when Britain's very survival depended on her Merchant Navy, ships were being sunk faster than they could be replaced.

This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov.

The fateful attack on Pearl Harbor forced the Western world to revise its opinion of Japan's airmen.

Many books and articles have been written on wars in narrow seas.

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.

Bitter Ocean is a masterful, authoritative account of perhaps the least-known major battle of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic.