Naval forces and warfare

In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway with changing fortunes until the very end.

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.

Focusing on the oceanic war rather than the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at seaone of the largest fleets in the world and a small, upstart navy just three decades old.

A brilliantly detailed visual representation of the only US World War II destroyer to have retained its original configuration.

Welcomed as the first book about American submarines in World War II to be written by a man who actually fought them, this compelling personal account of the war beneath the sea firmly established Edward L.

An illustrated examination of the role played by the Sunderland as an antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic, focusing on the key battles of the Biscay campaign in 1943 44.

Unlike Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britains great maritime strategist Sir Julian Corbett believed that victory in war does not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this has never been the case.

With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personable account of Commodore Perrys expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old pursers clerk of the Mississippi.

The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades.

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This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control.

AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2020'This splendid book will appeal to maritime historians, archaeologists, model-makers and nautical enthusiasts across the board.

Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers.

The development of the US Navy's dreadnought battleships was a pivotal part of America's evolution into a true world power.

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.

A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history.

This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history.

The final decade of the Cold War saw unprecedented peacetime expansion of the US Navy, including Naval Aviation.

The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.

The Arctics growing strategic importance in world affairs and the increasing attention it receives from states inside and outside the region warrants greater cooperation and understanding of practical measures for maintaining regional security and stability.

For the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel.

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen.

Shows how Rainier skillfully coped with the immense difficulties of maintaining British naval power in a huge area fraught with difficult circumstances.

Charts the British government's changing perception of the utility of naval control of trade between 1854 and the late 1960sThis collection of departmental files and treaties reviews the changing perceptions in the British government of the utility of naval control of trade over the period from the outbreak of the Russian or 'Crimean' war in 1854 to the United Nations mandated Beira patrol, established in 1966 to stop the flow of oil to Southern Rhodesia.

The birth of the mighty Roman Navy was anchored in the Romans' extraordinary ability to absorb and perfect the technology of other states and empires.

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.

Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility.

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

In the summer of 1814 a squadron of Royal Navy ships attacked the tiny Connecticut seaport of Stonington, and declared its intention of destroying the town.

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.

With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.

Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account.

This collection of essays examines the lives of thirteen naval officers whose careers had lasting effects on the evolution of American naval traditions.

Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I.

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.

This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy.

On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured China's former capital, Nanjing.

The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare.

The German Navy of World War II was small in number, but contained some of the most technologically advanced capital ships in the world.

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

In The Search for the Japanese Fleet, David W.

This book offers a detailed investigation of naval diplomacy, past and present, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of sea power thought.

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

The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day.

This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897.

This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II).

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