The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Innovation, Paperback - ***

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

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...

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. 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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. During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty sh...

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

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

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. 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. 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...

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

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

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

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. 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...

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

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...

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.By combin...

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. 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...

DescriptionThe experiences and achievements of the United States land sea and air forces on 6 June 1944 and the weeks following have been deservedl...

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

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

Reducere. Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation's maritime war on drugs. Jim Ho...

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-...