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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 Despite a supreme belief, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share o...

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

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. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. The book follows the histories of both the German and American divisions from their inceptions until their fateful confrontation and serves as a te...

Reducere. Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources o...

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

Reducere. DescriptionCombining a close knowledge of Asia and an ability to tap Chinese-language sources with naval combat experience and expertise in sea-pow...

Reducere. This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achie...

Reducere. The result of more than fifteen years of research, Ironclad Down is a treasure trove of detailed information about one of history's most famous ves...

Reducere. Seizing the Enigma tells the thrilling story of the Royal Navy's battle to crack the Germans' supposedly unbreakable U-boat Enigma code, which woul...

DescriptionThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as...

Contributor(s): Author: Conrad WatersThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completi...

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

DescriptionThe arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce interservice r...

The subject of this volume is best known for the disaster of 22 September 1914 where Cressy and two sister-ships, Aboukir and Hogue, were sunk with...

The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review, commemorating the...

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

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...

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...

Reducere. Decision at Strasbourg relates the remarkable and largely unknown story of Lt. General Jacob Devers' lost opportunity to launch a bold attack into ...