Naval forces and warfare

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.

Britain's War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition.

Warship 2016 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships.

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The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earthunpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there.

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939.

This Whitehall Paper explores the ways in which Mogadishu's inhabitants try to stay out of harm's way, from security officials in the presidential compound of Villa Somalia to the city's powerful district commissioners, from patrolling policemen to the women road-sweepers in the rubbish-filled alleyways of the Waberi district.

As a follow-up to the highly regarded British Pacific Fleet, David Hobbs looks at the post-World War II fortunes of the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy-its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of ignorant politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy.

In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination.

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters.

A commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, the Hanseatic League eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield.

Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, first published in 1985, is one of the few comprehensive treatments on the subject from a strategic perspective.

On the outome of the Battle of the Atlantic from 1939 to 1945 depended Britain's survival in the midst of a global war.

So many histories of the War in the Pacific focus on the Allied experience.

Examines the slogan ''free trade and sailors rights'', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans'' experience with impressment into the British navy.

"e;I thought that this was going to another of those books puffing up the American side of WWII.

Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B.

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

In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and suffered tremendous casualties in so doing.

The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941--1943.

The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II.

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

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A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.

A fresh approach to the Battle of the Atlantic, told through the spectacular story of HG-76, a major turning point in the naval war.

2023 Naval Institute Press Author of the YearFinalist - National Security Book Award This nation';s Cold War and Global War on Terror defense structures need an update.

Presents rich detail on captains' duties and everyday lives.

During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes.

Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III.

This sweeping recasting of American naval history is a bold departure from the conventional ';sea power' approach.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II.

Scholars and policy makers have traditionally viewed portions of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions.

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.

Naval service is an apprenticed profession.

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An epic story of one man's devotion to the American causeIn October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American rebellion.

This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In Desperate Victories, professional historian Harry Bennett provides first-hand accounts and commentary on the British reaction to one of the greatest shocks in military history - the German blitzkrieg in the west.

This edited volume critically examines the concept of the "e;security dilemma"e; and applies it to India-China maritime competition.

An in-depth analysis of aircraft carrier battles in WWII and the evolution of carrier operations—from technology and strategy to life among the crew.

This is Volume 1 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896.

At the outbreak of World War II, the four key Capital German ships comprised the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy - now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary - has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in the complex process of national unity.

A unique collection of superb photographs of vessels of the Royal Navy from 1966 91, ideal for regular buyers of the Warship series.

In modern history, China has been primarily a land power, dominating smaller states along its massive continental flanks.

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Naval Power in Action focuses attention to the United States current competition with China, laying out a case for acting in three areas: strengthen the homeland to economic coercion, modernize and reorganize institutions to successfully compete, and winning the positional fight with China over markets and military posture.

Reid tells one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.

This is the definitive account of a mission thought to be an impossible one.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) represents one of the most successful examples of multilateral treaty making in the modern era.