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From the outbreak of war in 1914 to the creation of the Mercantile Marine Reserve and the eventual introduction of convoys in 1917, this book charts the experiences, contribution and sacrifices made by merchant mariners from Wales.

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

This book critically analyzes US political-military strategy by arguing that freedom of the seas discourse is fundamentally unfit for an era of maritime great power competition.

The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on.

Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic tells the story of the creation of the American Navy.

Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

'Gorgeous, spellbinding and important' Sunday Times'Rampaging, brilliant, passionate history' Wall Street Journal'Magnificent Dalrymple has uncovered sources never used before' Guardian'Vivid unmatched revolutionary humane' Sunday Telegraph____________________________From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a four-book collection chronicling the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of the East India Company.

On a dark night in February 2005, Sara Sheldon arrived at Camp Fallujah, outside the dangerous ancient city for which it was named.

The final year of the Second World War was very quiet in terms of naval operations, as European leaders turned their minds towards peace with the promise of unconditional German surrender.

This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific.

First published in 1986 and lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature.

As 1942, the fourth year of the war, began, victory for the Allies was still a long way off.

This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy.

Winner: Richard Barksdale Harwell AwardWinner: Emerging Civil War Book AwardOn a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E.

Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an ideathe concept of ';Sea Power,'a term first coined by Capt.

Shows how Britain and its empire was not a strong centralised imperial state and that it was only through manifold activities taking place in different colonial centres with varied colonial arrangements that the surge in piracy inthis period was contained and reduced.

After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet throughout the First World War.

For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley presents aerial photographs of the German and Italian fleets that were selected as important six decades ago and have long lain dormant, unindexed and unexplained.

A highly illustrated history of the US Navy's nuclear submarine program, from the postwar years to the 2020 Columbia-class SSBNs.

This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.

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

A pioneer in the field of deep-sea diving, George F.

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 American objections to the vice-admiralty system.

This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region.

Asia is headed toward an uncertain and potentially volatile future in the maritime arena.

This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea, and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux.

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

The Petty Officer's Guide is written and edited by petty officers for petty officers.

The US naval aviator of World War II played a pivotal part in the winning of the war.

In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants.

Submarines and blockades dominated the war at sea in 1915.

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia.

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.

Winston Churchill called it "e;the Beast.

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Carl Benn examines the War of 1812 and its significance in US history.

A survey of the activities of the British navy in the Caribbean from the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake through the great wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries against the Dutch, Spanish and French and Britain's declining role thereafter.

In 1906, the Germans began building their own dreadnought fleet armed with larger guns, word of which soon reached the British Admiralty.

Compiled by an acclaimed Civil War historian, this beautiful volume illustrated with stunning photography examines America's deadliest conflict through the camera's lens.

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

On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem .

Several books have been written about US naval patrol aviation in World War 2, but none do full justice to the role played by patrol squadrons of the US Navy in the longest, most bitterly fought campaign of the war - the Battle of the Atlantic.

The availability of land bases from which to launch and maintain military, diplomatic, and humanitarian relief operations is becoming increasingly uncertain because of physical or political constraints.

Toward a New Maritime Strategy examines the evolution of American naval thinking in the post-Cold War era.

Actor Richard Beale was a young officer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

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.

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has never been as complete.

The invasion and conquest of Hong Kong formed part of the staggering series of Japanese conquests across the Far East in late 1941 and early 1942.

This is the thrilling story of USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.