Naval forces and warfare

The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina.

The realities of WWII underwater warfare come to life in this chronicle of a submarine sunk in the Philippines-and the remarkable sailors who survived.

This book is about the applicability of the high seas regime in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

While the US Marine Corps was one of the smallest of American armed services in World War II, its contribution to the final victory cannot be overstated.

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

This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars.

From the mid-19th century to the early Cold War, the United States has a long history with China, and that interaction has not always been positive or productive.

In this, the first of a five volume series covering the capital ships of the German Navy of World War II, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine.

Although the war in the Pacific is usually considered a carrier war, it was the cruisers that dominated the early fighting.

The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe.

In 2001, while vacationing on Panama's Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P.

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.

In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist.

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century.

During World War II the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the forefront of submarine technology.

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

Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "e;Laird rams"e; were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.

Throughout the history of the U.

Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations.

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

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

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.

By the outbreak of World War II, Germany had done much to replace the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled following their surrender at the end of World War I.

A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent.

This is the first book to examine Thomas Holcomb s crucial role as commandant of the U.

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.

A Times History Book of the Year 2022From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.

In the first of a series of books, naval expert Phil Carradice takes us through the war at sea in 1939, using previously unpublished and rare images of the battles, the ships and the people involved.

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service.

The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812.

This superbly researched book gives a complete account of the war in the Mediterranean on, above and beneath the sea up until Italy's armistice in September 1943.

A history of the World War II clandestine special operations group that linked German-occupied Norway with Scotland’s Shetland Islands.

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Despite being relatively unknown compared to famous ships like Graf Spee or Bismarke, or the more famous U-boats, the Auxiliary Cruisers were immensely successful, not only in the number of enemy ships they sank, but in the resources which were tied up trying to track them down.

This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

Using four warship-centered examples, this book shows how naval battles are won or lost-and how technological advantage is rarely as decisive in defeat or victory as is often claimed.

The Imperial Japanese Navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships.

This title follows from New Vanguard 51: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939 45 (1) and charts the continuing development of the U-boat in German service, including the evolution of the Type IX as a long range 'cruiser' intended for solo operations in distant waters.

Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century.

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.

Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.

A critical survey of the vocabulary of Viking ships and their crews, of fleets and sailing and battles at sea, based on the runic and skaldic evidence from c.

Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat.

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship.

Combining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-power theory, the authors assess how the rise of Chinese sea power will affect U.

This book examines the evolution of China's maritime security strategy, and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy.

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