Naval Institute Press

DescriptionVictory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and Near Eastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 ...

A biography of Charles Stark 'Doc' Draper, the moving force behind the development of the floated gyroscope, which also acts as a chronological acc...

Examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight to the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War ...

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 f...

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...

Tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907, the Home Fleet co...

DescriptionOn July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three...

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

In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the US. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished nuclear diplomacy in an attempt to f...

In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmember...

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...

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

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

Reducere. DescriptionSubmarines played a major role in the war at sea in the years 1939-45, and this major reference book describes all the classes of vessel...

Reducere. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company's gunboat Diana went ...

Reducere. Despite a supreme belief, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share o...

On 4 June 1944 the German submarine U-505 became the first man-of-war captured by the US Navy in battle on the high seas since the War of 1812. Att...

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

DescriptionOriginally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken b...

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

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...

In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime m...

Reducere. DescriptionUSS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When her keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the wor...

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...

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. Churchill famously claimed that the only thing that had really frightened him during the war was the Battle of the Atlantic. Keeping open the lifel...

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

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...

Reducere. Representing five years of research, The Battlecruiser HMS Hood is easily the most comprehensive book ever published on this great warship. Bruce T...

DescriptionThis book is the latest in a series based entirely on original draughts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detai...

Presents a thorough chronology and atlas of naval warfare from the Age of Galleys to The Nuclear Age.

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...

In his November 19, 2005 presidential address, President George W. Bush summarized U.S. military policy as, "Our situation can be summed up this wa...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the night of 13 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second war patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow ...

Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the cou...

Reducere. Tribals, Battles and Darings describes the three classes, each designed under different circumstances along destroyer lines but to general-purpose ...

Reducere. On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level...

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...

Tells one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: neutral Switzerland shot down US aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivor...

DescriptionJohn Lambert was a renowned naval draftsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiast...

Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige...

Reducere. Because of his long experience with the formulation of military strategy in the United States, Admiral Wylie's analyses and opinions are well worth...

Reducere. The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost one hundred strike aircraft. Brought togeth...

Reducere. This is the first paperback edition of the revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of publi...

DescriptionOne Nation Under Drones is an interesting and informative review of how robotic and unmanned systems are impacting every aspect of Ameri...

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

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. One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal k...

Readers with a penchant for real-life cloak-and-dagger stories won't be disappointed with this memoir. Dan Pinck's World War II adventures behind J...

Reducere. While it is a constant throughout history that conflict has inspired and engendered great art, it is a much rarer event for art to impact directly ...

Reducere. One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies' first and most important major combined o...

Reducere. Aimed at the general reader with an interest in World War II and the U.S. Navy, this book looks at the massive salvage effort that followed the att...

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...

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. 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...

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...

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 ...

DescriptionCruisers were the Navy's maids-of-all-work employed in a greater variety of roles than any other warship type. Smaller faster and far mo...

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

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...

DescriptionThe ninth HMS Vanguard bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honors from the Armada to Jutland was the last a...

This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century. It begins with a brief summary of deve...