Naval forces and warfare

The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory   During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships.

Over recent decades, it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping.

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 length, scale and intensity of the Battle of the Atlantic led the British and German navies to make substantial changes to their organisation, strategy and tactics.

This well-documented and hard-hitting biography of the thirteenth commandant of the U.

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

A World War II tabletop miniatures naval wargame set in the Pacific.

Bloodstained Sands tells the untold story of the men who stormed beaches around the globe during World War II, from the Sword and Juno Beaches on D-Day to the sands of Iwo Jima.

In a last desperate bid to stave off defeat, Japan's High Command launched the terrifying kamikaze attacks.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the British Empire encompassing the globe, the Royal Navy indisputably ruled the waves.

Charles Stewart's life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick O'Brien's fictional hero, Jack Aubrey.

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.

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Examines Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia and the often underappreciated prowess of the Russian navy.

David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy.

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.

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route once and for all.

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels.

It is now almost exactly a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning flying at sea made unique demands on men and machines.

This Whitehall Paper provides an in-depth analysis of Russia's Ground Forces, including airborne and naval troops.

An important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland.

From the Spanish galleons of the 16th century to the cruise ships and crude oil tankers of the 21st, maritime industries have been central to American economic, political, and cultural life.

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.

This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War.

The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.

NATO's Northern members are increasingly concerned about Russia's military activities.

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.

A biography of the British American who captained a blockade runner for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy.

This collection of essays was first published in 1974, and the fact that it remains relevant today is a testament to Marder's legacy as arguably the greatest naval historian of the 20th century.

Peter the Great created the Russian navy from nothing, but it soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from Europe.

In General Naval Tactics, Naval War College professor and renowned tactical expert Milan Vego describes and explains those aspects of naval tactics most closely related to the human factor.

This is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains, and of a previously untold Military and Naval Intelligence Mission along about 800 miles of the Durand Line in World War II.

A heavily illustrated account of the evolution, design and deployment of dreadnought battleships.

Indonesia is the largest archipelago state in the world comprising 17,480 islands, with a maritime territory measuring close to 6 million square kilometres.

During the First World War, rumors of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy.

This book introduces the concept of "e;oceanic strategy,"e; expanding beyond traditional maritime and naval perspectives to include political, economic, socio-cultural, and ecological dimensions.

While there is abundant literature discussing non-traditional security issues, there is little mention of such issues existing in the South China Sea.

This book contains the Naval Staff History originally issued by the Admiralty in 1957 as a confidential book for use within the Royal Navy.

This book explores the question "e;Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea at all?

A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II.

From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare.

New York Times-Bestselling Authors: An "e;outstanding"e; accountof the admiral scapegoated for the Pearl Harbor disaster-and the long effort to clear his name (Christian Science Monitor).

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

During the 1920s and 1930s Adm.

On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.