Naval forces and warfare

During World War I, American merchant ships were given oddly colored paint jobs to distort their profiles at sea.

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.

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.

A definitive account of the battle of Iwo Jima, from its origins to its hard-fought conclusion.

In 1925, Lewis R Freeman became a correspondent for the United States Navy Fleet, living and working among them.

Stealth Boat is a memoir of Gannon McHale's years in the U.

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Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present.

The Herndon Climb is an important and meaningful ritual in Naval Academy culture.

This was the first study to put 19th century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective.

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Originally published in 1930, this is a wonderfully detailed look at the history of the Sailing Ship in the nineteenth century.

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into its own.

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

During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes.

This book is simultaneously a biography of Rear Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history.

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.

A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea.

Strategic Survey 2022: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics provides objective, in-depth analysis of the events that have shaped relations between major powers, region by region, over the past year, and highlights the pressing geopolitical and geo-economic challenges that will shape the international agenda in 2023.

Newly updated fifth edition: The remarkable reference that is "e;absolutely essential in every naval historian's library"e; (Warship World).

Sunk by a U-boat, Attacked by Kamikazes tells the story of one man’s experiences during the years 1939 to 1947.

The USS Rasher was one of America's most successful Word War II submarines, and her wartime exploits earned her three Presidential Unit Citations.

This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century.

This book offers a unique and scholarly perspective on a little-studied subject: maritime crime and policing.

Designed for busy junior officers in the U.

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War.

Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914?

When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers.

Two things made the battleship possible: the harnessing of steam for propulsion and Britain's vast industrial power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present.

An illustrated exploration of the dangerous and difficult tasks performed by US Navy Special Warfare Units, from combat demolition to deception operations - a vital, but largely unsung, contribution to Allied victory.

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In the first major study of the Royal Canadian Navy's contribution to foreign policy, Nicholas Tracy takes a comprehensive look at the paradox that Canada faces in participating in a system of collective defence as a means of avoiding subordination to other countries.

The Nimitz class aircraft carrier is the ultimate symbol of the United States superpower status.

Bestselling author James Nelson brings us another maritime adventure packed with battle, duty, heroism and tragedy.

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

This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.

A follow-up to the author’s highly regarded history of British ‘Town’ class cruisers, this book takes the same approach, combining coverage of the development, design details and career highlights of the original class as well as the Uganda, Minotaur and Tiger designs that were derived from them.

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II.

A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean from the earliest times until the present.

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The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables.

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

The development of this excellent and successful class of warship only became possible after the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935 eased restrictions on the types of ship Germany could build; even then only five of the class were permitted: the Admiral Hipper, the Bl cher, the Prinz Eugen, the Seydlitz and the L tzow.

AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982.

This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Unregulated or lesser regulated maritime spaces are ideal theatres of operation and mediums of transportation for terrorists, insurgents and pirates.