Military forces and sectors

Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year's Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford.

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A Special Forces veteran and security advisor shares what he's learned about dealing with conflict: "e;A powerful book"e; (Peter Bergen).

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany-the two largest fleets of World War I-against one another for the first time.

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The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War.

The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898-1945 examines how the United States became a military superpower through the use of amphibious operations.

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.

From Kites to Cold War tells the story of the evolution of manned airborne reconnaissance.

After 2005, the United States and coalition partners led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF).

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

Developed by French physicist Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques, the bathyscaph Trieste was a scientific marvel that allowed unprecedented scientific, technical, and military feats in the ocean depths.

General Power: Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of 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.

Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G.

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

Red Crew is a first-hand account 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.

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.

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.

The General Board of the Navy was a uniquely American strategic planning organization with few analogs at the time of its establishment, except perhaps the various components of the Admiralty in Great Britain.

Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in Early America will fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare.

Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.

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

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

As We Recall is the first book of its kind.

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

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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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An important rethinking of the Normandy war narrativeBeyond 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.

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

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.

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