Military forces and sectors

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.

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For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers.

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur's return in October 1944.

This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A.

"e;We were certainly pioneers as the Trieste was one of only two such vehicles in the world-the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS-3 was the other.

To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill's ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested.

Drawing on extensive State Department files, declassified Navy policy papers, interviews with both former top officials and individuals who were involved in incidents, David F.

Always at War is the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the early decades of the Cold War.

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

After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland.

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him.

American Amphibious Warfare offers analysis of the early amphibious landing operations from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.

HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War.

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.

The elaborate Allied schemes to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII-featuring the real-life spy work of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

As We Recall is the first book of its kind.

Since 1977 Nathan Miller's concise history of the U.

More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service's core values.

All naval professionals-without exception-encounter, directly participate, or play a supporting role in naval cooperation.

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.

Since the 1980s, strategic sealift has been formally designated as a U.

In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon on the Western Front during World War I required a radical and unprecedented change in the way that national resources were employed to exploit a technological opportunity.

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Beyond the Beach examines the Allied air war against France in 1944.

In the early nineteenth century, the United States of America was far from united.

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

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.

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940.

This book examines President Theodore Roosevelt's use of the United States naval services as supporting components of his diplomatic efforts to facilitate the emergence of the United States as a Great Power at the dawn of the 20th century.

Just five hours after radio contact was first made with Basher 52-O'Grady's call sign-the Air Force captain was safely on board the USS Kearsarge.

For more than two decades William S.

Sergeant Major Devaney's They Were Heroes presents moving portraits of warriors who have not been fully celebrated.

Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm.

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "e;Renaissance admiral.

The Supercarriers is a comprehensive historical overview with extensive photos, maps, drawings, and operational detail, including all air-wing deployments.

An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1946, this memoir recounts the author's nearly forty years of service in naval intelligence, beginning in 1908.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

The respected British military historian H.

In 1943 the U.

Naval officers and enlisted personnel undergo extensive training to cope with the special demands of their duties at sea and ashore, but what about their spouses and children?

In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death.

More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II.

As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece.