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Since the US Navy's beginnings, it has created, adapted, rejected, and sometimes grudgingly accepted new technologies. This entry into the Wheel Bo...

For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, comb...

Now firmly established as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, this a...

From the bloody battle for Normandy to the Nazi heartland, from war's end to the killing fields of Korea, the men of the British Army's Royal Tank ...

Reducere. In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year...

Reducere. Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first publishe...

Reducere. Air Admiral Marc Mitscher, who led the U.S. attack across the Pacific, is a legend in military circles for developing an entirely new concept of wa...

Reducere. The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibran...

Reducere. Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

Studies how the world's navies incorporated new technologies into their ships, their practices, and their doctrine. The book does this by examining...

This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war i...

This is a major new study of Italian naval camouflage schemes developed and used during World War II. When Italy entered the War in June 1940, the ...

Reducere. The story of one of the bloodiest battles in history, resulting in the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, is documented with a personal...

Reducere. In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn th...

The Naval Officer's Guide, intended primarily for commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy, is also a valuable introduction to the sea services for o...

Reducere. The first new book on naval shiphandling in more than a generation, this guide helps beginning and intermediate shiphandlers learn and perfect a sk...

In their fledgling efforts to send robots instead of human beings on the most dangerous aerial missions, U.S. operators in South-East Asia in the 1...

Historian Richard M. Jones recounts fifty stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous, and in some cases t...

Reducere. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...

Reducere. In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention. Yet these 110-foot warships, manned mos...

Reducere. Ward Carroll's electrifying debut, Punk's War, blew away readers, critics, and Navy veterans with an intriguing look at the modern military [that] ...

As naval officers transition to rewarding and challenging jobs ashore, Naval Officer's Guide to the Pentagon offers a valuable helping hand along t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

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

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

Reducere. As paper navigational charts are replaced by vector images on computer screens, magnetic compasses enhanced by digital flux gate technology, and ch...

Reducere. For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star m...

Reducere. Written by the undisputed dean of U.S. denial and deception experts, Practise to Deceive is the most in-depth look at deception as a military strat...

Reducere. Winner of the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award Winner of the W.Y. Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction Sometimes it takes years fo...

DescriptionThis refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence is important both because ONI was the first official American in...

Reducere. A young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.

Reducere. DescriptionFrom about the middle of the seventeenth century the Navy's administrators began to commission models of their ships that were accuratel...

Reducere. This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy fighter pilots--Jimmie Thach, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmy Flatley--who developed sweeping changes ...

DescriptionRMS Titanic has had more written about her than any other ship, but surprisingly there is little information directed at the modelmaker....

Presents a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity, cyberwar, and cyber-terrorism. From basic concepts to advanced principles, Martin Libicki ...

DescriptionMore than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, hist...

Reducere. Punk's War reveals the inner workings of the U.S. Navy as only an insider can. An authentic and riveting thriller, it is a highly acclaimed novel o...

Reducere. On a mission over central Afghanistan, Punk is hit--and taken captive by the Taliban. And after he escapes, the challenge is not over. Because now ...

Reducere. The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guada...

Reducere. Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring singl...

Reducere. 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. Made famous by ...

In 1905, Japan and Russia were at war. With the Russian Far East Fleet destroyed, the Czar decided to send his Baltic Fleet half way around the wor...

When the German army begins its invasion of Soviet Russia, four children are evacuated to the countryside: Maxim, the son of a senior Communist Par...

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational ...

Reducere. Before Jutland is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand...

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history. Commercial shipbuilding output jumped thirteen-fold from 200...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

Reducere. Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for...

Reducere. Description"An award-winning aviation historian chronicles the Navy's efforts to develop a powerful sea-based strike force through the use of long-...

Reducere. The Ship of the Line takes the best models from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to tell the story of the evolution of the ship of the lin...

Reducere. Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese sur...

DescriptionFrom Henri Fabre's first successful take off from water and landing near Marseilles, to the introduction of a hull rather than floats by...

Reducere. Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.S. Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. A narrative of courage, hope, and...

The Royal Navy of Nelson's time was such a huge organization, that it is sometimes hard to comprehend its full scope. Indeed, during the Napoleonic...

Reducere. Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman becam...

Reducere. In the 1950s and early 1960s a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere, reaching the...

Reducere. Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examine...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Darrel D. WhitcombWhen his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old ...

Reducere. This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence...

Reducere. The Good Shepherd was described as one of the best novels of 1955. In it, C.S. Forester departs from the age-of-sail Hornblower genre that made him...

Reducere. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffens...

Reducere. Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for...

DescriptionThe Civil War is often considered a "soldiers' war, " but Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy acknowledges the legacy of service of the office...

Reducere. As Clausewitz observed, In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. The essence of war is a competitive reciprocal relatio...

Publisher: Naval Institute PressAuthor(s): George E. MeltonIllustration(s): 16 black & white photographs, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 280Publication dat...

Reducere. My Men Are My Heroes introduces its readers to a living standard of Marine Corps esprit de corps and military decorum. Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal...

Reducere. Completely revised and expanded since its French publication, Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825-2016 is the first English-language ...

DescriptionThe majority of warship modelers work in smaller scales most often based on plastic or resin kits. Many of these creators harbor ambitio...

Reducere. Also Available in an Audio Edition from Audible via AmazonIn Flight of the Intruder Jake Grafton is an A-6 Intruder pilot during the Vietnam War wh...

Publisher: Naval Institute PressAuthor(s): Christian N. HalidayIllustration(s): 82 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 752Collection: Scarl...