Indiana University Press, 2008. — 473 p. The author examines the entire strategic and operational history of WWII in the Pacific through the lens of Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783. King and Nimitz come off very well indeed while Yamamoto gets blasted for poor follow up of his operations. And it is very difficult to judge MacArthur since he was fighting...
Springer, 2023. — 277 p. This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the individuals who helped build it. Former enemies who fought fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War, the two...
Washington: 1946. — 172 p. An acoustic torpedo is a torpedo that aims itself by listening for characteristic sounds of its target or by searching for it using sonar (acoustic homing). Acoustic torpedoes are usually designed for medium-range use, and often fired from a submarine. The first passive acoustic torpedoes were developed nearly simultaneously by the United States Navy and...
Casemate Publishers, 2023. — 239 p. First book to discuss submarine operations at Midway in detail, including how the Japanese misused their submarines at Midway because of a flawed tactical plan. Most books gloss over submarines at Midway and, if they are mentioned at all, conclude they failed miserably and had little impact on the outcome of the battle. It is undeniable that...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2021. — 255 p. The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against legitimate neutral, largely British, merchant shipping bound for Spanish Republican...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2021. — 255 p. The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against legitimate neutral, largely British, merchant shipping bound for Spanish Republican...
London: C. Gilbert-Wood, 1910. — 423 p. Классическое исследование знаменитого английского историка флота Роджера Андерсона, посвященное истории военно-морских конфликтов на Балтийском море с 1522 по 1850 годы. Дания, Швеция, Россия, Голландия, Англия, Польша и Ганза - основные национальные игроки в этом интересном геополитическом морском противостоянии, затянувшемся более чем на...
Greenpeace International, 1990. — 133 p. Pacific 09/01/74: The first and only Japanese nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Mutsu, develops a reactor leak during its first test voyage in the Pacific. The leakage apparently results from a faulty design in the reactor's shielding system and involves the release of radiation -- gamma rays and neutrons escaping through a hatch cover...
Brill, 2018. — 284 p. — (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 29). In the Name of the Battle against Piracy discusses the naval anti-piracy campaigns in Europe and Asia in the 16th-19th centuries, exploring how the state used them to establish its authority, and how state and non-state actors joined them for personal benefit. Nine contributors argue how important...
London: Cambridge University Press, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. — 146 p. Edward Attwood's fundamental work describes the design, armament, tactical and technical characteristics of battleships and battlecruisers of the pre-war era.
Denizler Kitabevi, 2010. — 287 p. This original book synchronically written by two languages - English and Turkish. The naval Battle of Chesme took place on 5–7 July 1770 during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) near and in Çeşme (Chesme or Chesma) Bay, in the area between the western tip of Anatolia and the island of Chios, which was the site of a number of past naval battles...
Naval Institute Press, 1994. — 156 p. As John Terraine has written, "There has been nothing quite like the Battle of the Atlantic and it is improbable that there ever will be." Sir Winston Churchill for one did not underestimate its importance: he called it 'the dominating factor all through the war'. The true story of what the Battle of the Atlantic was really like is here...
Free Press, 1979. — 325 p. Draws on archival materials to shed light on the personal feud between Roosevelt and Hitler which vented itself in the undeclared and covert German-American naval war of 1939-1941. Fascinating history of the lead-up to America's involvement in the Second World War, and the steadily escalating naval conflicts between the U.S. and the Third Reich. This...
Seafort Publishing, 2022. — 304 p. In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 1945, with the surrender of Japan. Yet, on that day some ninety-eight battleships or ex-battleships might be spotted around the world, and eleven of them were in or around Tokyo Bay for the surrender...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 255 p. This generously illustrated volume examines the role of the British and American navies in the Arabian Gulf from shortly after the Second World War to the present. Ballantyne (editor of WARSHIPS IFR magazine) describes the responses of these navies to various disputes, including the Abadan Crisis of 1951, the Tanker War of the 1980s, and the Iraq War...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 752 p. Iain Ballantyne considers the key episodes of submarine warfare and vividly describes the stories of brave individuals who have risked their lives under the sea, often with fatal consequences. His analysis of underwater conflict begins with Archimedes discovering the Principle of Buoyancy. Our clandestine journey then moves through the centuries...
Springer Netherlands, 1923. — 825 p. Классический фундаментальный обзорный труд военно-морского историка, детально исследующий боевые действия, сражения, тактику и составы голландского и британского флотов в Первой Англо-Голландской Войне 1652-1654 годов. Отдельная часть работы подробно освещает военно-морское противостояние на Балтике (в 1658-1659) союзных эскадр голландского и...
New Digital Press, 2019. — 298 p. Una volta tratteggiato un panorama generale, la scelta è stata quel - la d’eseguire un ribaltamento prospettico, abbandonando lo sguardodistante di Londra – e, talvolta, pure quello dell’amministrazione cit -tadina della colonia – per donare voce a diversi singoli protagonisti che potessero gettare nuova luce su tratti misconosciuti...
Laterza, 2012. — 726 p. Barbero ha fatto veramente un ottimo lavoro di ricerca sulle fonti per quanto riguarda Venezia. Deve aver passato più di qualche settimana nel poco ospitale archivio di stato di Venezia, a spulciare documenti ed epistolari privati. Gli estratti di questi si trovano lungo le molte citazioni del libro, e secondo me non appesantiscono affatto la lettura, ma...
Helion Company, 2018. — 140 p. England and the Dutch Republic fought three naval wars in the middle of the 17th century, arising principally from a clash of mercantile interests. In the first of these, under the Commonwealth, England had much the better, due largely to the outstanding leadership of Robert Blake. The second war was more even. By now Charles II had been restored...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 608 p. For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter; a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strategic thinking on both sides of the North Sea. In fact, the unalterable geographic situation meant...
Naval Institute Press, 1983. — 488 p. This collection of 51 essays provides a long world history of amphibious naval landings that include European, Asian, and American operations. It describes in detail some of history's most significant amphibious assaults, as well as planned attacks that were never carried out.
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 159 p. The dawning of aerial warfare is fully recounted in this dramatic memoir of the first bomber squadron mission of the Royal Navy Air Service over the Western front. Very interesting account from a WW1 Aviator, who did his duty on regular basis, constrained mainly by the weather. Great because its a normal sort of bloke doing extraordinary...
Dover Publications, 2013. — 48 р. This collection of magnificent original full-color paintings accurately depicts 100 amazing ships — from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops (2657 B.C.) and the Viking ships that visited North America around A.D. 1001 to Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria (1492), and the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Seawolf. 100 illustrations in full color.
Dover Publications, 2013. — 48 р. This collection of magnificent original full-color paintings accurately depicts 100 amazing ships — from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops (2657 B.C.) and the Viking ships that visited North America around A.D. 1001 to Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria (1492), and the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Seawolf. 100 illustrations in full color.
Casemate, 2018. — 212 p. A journey into the golden age of naval history, when these floating powerhouses ruled the waves. The battleship was the ultimate embodiment of naval power during the latter stages of the British Empire, with the Royal Navy the first to build the dreadnought battleship in 1906. The new design, with a uniform main battery and steam turbines making it...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 212 p. A journey into the golden age of naval history, when these floating powerhouses ruled the waves. The battleship was the ultimate embodiment of naval power during the latter stages of the British Empire, with the Royal Navy the first to build the dreadnought battleship in 1906. The new design, with a uniform main battery and steam turbines...
Harvard University Press, 1933. — 428 p. The introduction of the ironclad warship has never hitherto been made the subject of a monograph based on the archives of the British Admiralty or of the Navy Department at Washington. For documents concerning the period of chief importance in the introduction of ironclads, the British and French naval archives have been open to...
Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 75 p. — (Warships Illustrated No. 3). The Standing NATO Maritime Groups are a multinational, integrated maritime force made up of vessels from allied countries. The ships and any naval aircraft aboard are available to NATO to support Alliance tasking. These groups provide NATO with a continuous maritime capability. The command is also responsible...
Penguin Random House España, 2017. — 384 p. Un trabajo objetivo sobre el sitio y ataque de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias en 1741. En octubre de 1739, con la excusa del incumplimiento de los acuerdos comerciales obtenidos en América por el tratado de Utrech, Inglaterra declara la guerra a España y ello le da la excusa para intentar la conquista de las posesiones españolas en...
Público, 2018. — 218 p. Sobre el relato de un combate naval entre naves peruanas y chilenas, sucedido en 1879. Se analiza la cultura y vida cotidiana de las personas de finales del siglo XIX; hombres, mujeres y niños. La situación de la niñez, esperanza de vida, trabajo infantil, niños soldados. Fichas sobre Armas, Naves de Guerra, y otras Guerras. Se explica como esta batalla,...
Iniziative Editoriali Il Cerchio, 2012. — 160 p. Detailed account of Italy's biggest naval battle of its Third War of Independence, on the 20th of July 1866, off the Croatian Island of Lissa, against the Austrian Empire. La battaglia di Lissa fu uno scontro navale nell'ambito della terza guerra d'indipendenza italiana e si svolse il 20 luglio 1866 sul mar Adriatico nelle...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 347 p. This book examines how international order at sea is challenged, changed and maintained. The book surveys challenges to the international order at sea in the Asia-Pacific, the Indian Ocean Region, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. It explores the interaction between and cooperation among leading, emerging and smaller naval powers, both...
London, Frank Cass Publishing, 2005. — 250 p. This volume brings together a set of scholarly, readable and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval mutinies of the 20th century, including Russia (1905), Brazil (1910), Austria (1918), Germany (1918), France (1918-19), Great Britain (1931), Chile (1931), the United States (1944), India (1946), China (1949), Australia,...
Amber Books, 2012. — 224 p. The struggle for naval supremacy and the naval arms race inspired by HMS Dreadnought may have captured the headlines, but the opening stages of the naval war were dominated by the threat from German cruisers stationed outside European waters, until they were hunted down and sunk by the Royal Navy, notably at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 320 p. With the call to action stations in August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. This classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements -- battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea--with analysis of the strategy...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 224 p. The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war. Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast. What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently, when Scheer threw his entire fleet in a mission to attack...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 352 p. In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violated previous international agreements; they were targeted explicitly at civilians. A deviant form of warfare quickly became the norm. In...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 352 p. In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violated previous international agreements; they were targeted explicitly at civilians. A deviant form of warfare quickly became the norm. In...
Vintage Canada, 2011. — 368 p. A brilliant work of naval history, Deadly Seas tells the dramatic story of the birth, life, and death of two wartime vessels, one Allied, the other Axis, and, through them, the larger story of the epic Battle of the Atlantic itself.
Nadir Media, 2022. — 305 p. Questo volume, frutto della collaborazione tra la Società italiana di Storia militare e il Laboratorio di Storia marittima e navale dell’Università di Genova, offre spunti di riflessione e di approfondimento su alcuni dei molteplici temi che hanno caratterizzato la storia navale europea tra Cinquecento e medio Ottocento. Il focus è sul Mediterraneo,...
Edizioni dell’Orso, 2018. — 186 p. Nell’arco di tempo tra la fase iniziale della guerra del Peloponneso e quella finale dell’egemonia spartana (più esattamente tra il 430/29 e il 373/2 a.C.) troviamo nelle fonti antiche la maggiore concentrazione di riferimenti all’esistenza di navarchi in attività come comandanti della flotta spartana. Questo arco cronologico corrisponde con...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 184 p. In this work that was partially written while a prisoner of the German's after have his destroyer sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916, Sir Barry Bingham recounts his service in the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the destruction of Graf von Spee's Pacific Squadron during the Battle of the Falklands, and his...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 301 p. The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and warfare worldwide. He focuses...
McFarland, 2011. — 402 p. Between the last battle fought entirely under oars in 1571 and the first fought entirely under steam in 1866, naval warfare in the Middle Seas and adjacent Atlantic waters was dominated by the sailing warship. This exploration of that distinct period in military history begins with an overview of the galley warfare that dominated the Mediterranean for...
Naval Institute Press, 1978. — 608 p. The book profiles the major navies of the western Pacific. The six forces treated are those of Communist and Nationalist China, North and South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. Part One of the Guide is a series of essays in which the past and present status and future prospects of these navies are considered. Part Two contains detailed...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2007. — 221 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Autor spogląda na bitwę w szerokim kontekście trwającego od 1821 r. powstania greckiego, poszukując odpowiedzi na pytania o historię i narodziny współczesnego państwa greckiego. Stara się dociec, jakie wydarzenia militarne i polityczne zadecydowały o zaistnieniu współczesnej Grecji wśród innych niepodległych państw.
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 432 p. At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk Bönker explores the far-reaching...
The History Press, 2013. — 256 p. The British Grand Fleet which engaged the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland in 1916 was the most formidable in the history of the Royal Navy. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe's 151 warships included 28 battleships and nine battle cruisers, commanded by 13 admirals and 75 commodores and post captains. The Royal Navy and British public confidently...
Il Mulino, 2019. — 302 p. Nelle acque e lungo le coste del Mediterraneo, soprattutto fra la sponda cristiana e quella musulmana, dal Cinque al Settecento imperversarono i corsari: non pirati né predoni, ma guerriglieri del mare che agivano con patenti statali. Erano in gran parte maghrebini insediati ad Algeri, Tunisi e Tripoli, ma anche l’impero ottomano aveva i suoi corsari....
Routledge, 2014. — 297 p. First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and peace, the influence they have on particular situations, and how the relevant organisations can...
Routledge, 2014. — 297 p. First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and peace, the influence they have on particular situations, and how the relevant organisations can...
ABS, 2008. — 136 p. Workhorse of the Fleet - A History of the Liberty Ships, is the most recent of several books about the famous ships built in huge numbers to carry equipment and supplies supporting the war effort in Europe and Asia. Local author Gus Bourneuf begins his account by reiterating the fact that the U.S. was woefully unprepared to meet the challenges of the two...
Instituto de Publicaciones Navales, 2007. — 250 p. Este libro relata por primera vez el bautismo de fuego del arma submarina Argentina y las dos patrullas de guerra llevadas a cabo por el submarino ARA Santa Fe (S-21) durante la guerra de Malvinas (1982) sobre la base de una rigurosa investigacion que incluye un centenar de entrevistas a los protagonistas directos de los hechos.
Routledge, 2024. — 204 p. — ISBN 978-1-032-62657-4. This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in supporting the United States...
Routledge, 2024. — 140 p. This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in supporting the United States and carrying out...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 292 p. This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the diversity in international approaches to the navy-coastguard nexus. It considers the evolving global maritime security landscape and the emergence and proliferation of maritime law enforcement agencies—collectively referred to here as “coastguards”—performing peacetime constabulary duties...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 239 p. This book sheds light on one of the most under-studied but powerful navies in the world. Using a multifaceted approach, it examines how the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) has sought to transform itself from a coastal naval force focused solely on deterring North Korea to a navy capable of operating in the blue waters of East Asia and beyond. The...
John Wiley, 2016. — 404 p. This survey of American naval history features original chapters from key scholars in the field that trace the relationship between the American Navy and the position of the United States on the global political stage over the past 250 years. Places equal weight on the influence of major wartime campaigns and naval efforts to defend and expand...
Brill, 2019. — 762 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 165). Les Fatimides sont connus pour avoir été la première dynastie califale chiite et pour avoir fondé Le Caire qui devint leur capitale à partir de 973 lorsque la dynastie quitta la Tunisie actuelle pour s’installer en Egypte et prendre possession d’un empire qui s’étendait de l’Algérie orientale jusqu’à la Syrie en...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 209 p. The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel - and by extension a small, minor navy - to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required...
Naval War College Press, 1993. — 50 p. — (Newport Papers). On the afternoon of 31 May 1916, the British grand fleet and the German High Sea Fleet met in the only massed battle fleet action of the First World War. After a series of exchanges that lasted some twelve hours, both sides, in what became known as the Battle of Jutland, broke off battle and failed to engage each other...
Mayflower Books, 1980. — 400 p. A complete photographic dossier on all capital ships from the Dreadnought (1905) onwards, Battleships of the World is based on the enormous archives of Germany's Library of Contemporary History in Stuttgart. These photos document every aspect of the ships, including construction, on-boards, close-ups of detail, and action shots, and naturally...
München: J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1970. — 506 S. Von etwa 1900 bis in den Zweiten Weltkrieg hinein wurde die Seemacht einer Nation an der Zahl der Schlachtschiffe und Schlachtkreuzer gemessen, über die ihre Marine verfügte. Die Geschichte dieser beiden Schiffsklassen legt Breyer in seinem neuen Buch in aller Ausführlichkeit und mit seltener Akribie dar. In einem einleitenden Teil...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 308 p. This is the story of what were known by the British as 'Q' Ships and by the Germans as 'Decoy Raiders'. Disguised as merchant ships, they could be transformed in moments into killers and were used by both sides in the First World War. This is the remarkable story of what were known by the British as 'Q' Ships and by the Germans as 'Decoy Raiders'....
The Overlook Press, 2017. — 336 p. The true account of the British Royal Navy’s crusade to put an end to the African slave trade once and for all! Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained down the east coast of Africa through the mid-1800s, even after the Civil War ended it in the United States. What further undermined the British Empire...
London: Hambledon Press, 1987. — 517 p. Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design ""that might be both honourable and...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 375 p. 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. At that time, it would be the largest clash of capital ships in the history of modern naval warfare. Arguably, the outcome of World War I was at stake. Focusing on the many...
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 286 p. A warship designer and well-known author of a quartet of books on British warships, David K. Brown takes a detailed look at the Allied ships, weapons, and tactics that won the submarine war in the Atlantic in this handsomely illustrated book. Beginning with the lessons learned from World War I, the author outlines inter-war developments in technology...
Conway Maritime Press, 1990. — 232 p. In the massive revolution that affected warship design between Waterloo and the Warrior, the Royal Navy was traditionally depicted as fiercely resisting every change until it was almost too late, but these old assumptions were first challenged in this authoritative history of the transition from sail to steam. Originally published in 1990,...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 224 p. When first published in 1990, Before the Ironclad was highly regarded and wholly unique. Brown's work challenged old assumptions and started a re-evaluation of British contributions to naval developments of the period. This book traces the transition from sail to steam power to the construction of the HMS Warrior, the first iron hulled...
Naval Institute Press, 1988. — 248 p. This has been done before but never by so qualified an examiner. Brown, the Royal Navy's chief test pilot during World War II, test-flew most of the planes used by the Allies and Axis. He describes their construction, flight characteristics, and tactical strengths and weaknesses, assessing their chances against each other in aerial combat,...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 320 p. This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships during the Falklands War of 1982. Based on new evidence released following freedom of information requests, it will tell the full story of these dramatic events for the first time. The Falklands War was a pivotal event in 20th century British history, and is within...
Checkmark Books, 1999. — 451 р. — ISBN: 978-0816040681. An Encyclopedia of Naval History details the evolution of naval history over the last five centuries. International in scope with a focus on the United States and Britain, the book features descriptions of every notable naval engagement from 1571 onward
Gyldendal, 1879. — 232 p. The Battle of Colberger Heide (also Kolberger Heide) took place on 1 July 1644 during the Torstenson War, off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein. The battle was indecisive, but a minor success for the Dano-Norwegian fleet commanded by Jørgen Vind, assisted by Grabow and King Christian IV, over a Swedish fleet commanded by Klas Fleming, assisted by...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. — 480 p. In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, when an upstart American fleet fought off the legendary Royal Navy and established America as a world power for the first time. Through vivid re-creations of riveting and dramatic encounters at sea, Budiansky shows how this...
Naval Institute Press, 1994. — 172 p. The date 6 June 1994 marks the 50th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. This book covers all the vessels which were employed both in the landing and support roles. Detailed descriptions of all the ships, and of the artificial harbor, as well as an analysis of the ship-to-shore bombardment, giving the reader an appraisal of the central...
The History Press, 2013. — 307 p. Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Bart, was easily one of the most successful and deadly pirates in all of history. He went to sea at a young age and took to pirate life well. After his ship was taken by pirates, and he was made to join their ranks, Roberts proved himself and was elected captain in 1719. Two years after Roberts was made...
Udyat, 2007. — 96 р. — (Ships of the World series). — ISBN: 978-8493472856. The proud history and exciting future of the world's naval armadas are brought to life in this expansive volume. From cruisers and destroyers to aircraft carriers and submarines, this study explores the technology, development, and impressive careers of these integral components of military tradition.
CNRS Editions, 2016. — 608 p. Pour nos contemporains les pirates et les corsaires se résument aux aventures flamboyantes de marins dans la mer des Caraïbes ou aux attaques de farouches brigands au large de la Somalie. Moins réductrice, la réalité est à la fois multiple, passionnante et souvent plus riche que la fiction. L'Histoire des corsaires et des pirates propose un tableau...
Praeger Security, 2006. — 251 p. Distant Victory is an examination of the great sea fight at Jutland (1916) that is more than a mere balance sheet of ships sunk and lives lost, or an account of which fleet fled before the other. Rather, it is an a retelling of the battle that reveals its long-term consequences set in motion by the decisions both the Germans and the British made as...
Mondadori, 1992. — 323 p. È Dino Buzzati, che inviato dal “Corriere della Sera” sulle navi come corrispondente di guerra lascia scorrere nelle pagine di queste cronache gli stessi brividi metafisici che percorrono le trame dei suoi romanzi e dei racconti più famosi. Buzzati era attratto dalla vita militare. Lo seducevano la formale eleganza delle divise, l’assodata gerarchia...
Punto de Vista Editores, 2015. — 263 p. Se analiza el entramado de armadas y flotas creado por Carlos I y perfeccionado por su hijo Felipe II para administrar y proteger su imperio. Un apasionante recorrido por la primera potencia naval del siglo XVI. En definitiva, la Corona debía encontrar un modelo naval que le permitiera, por un lado, mantener unas rutas comerciales...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1981. — 285 p. Definitions. Principles and Precedents of Limited Naval Force. The Altered Environment. Naval Capacities and Doctrines. The Soviet Naval Enigma. Applications.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 222 p. Why governments want navies, how they use naval force for political purposes, and what changes this has brought to the world are questions which still matter at the uncertain end of the 20th century. Here James Cable picks the political fruit of five centuries of naval history. He cites examples in which the objective was clear and success or...
Naval Institute Press, 1981. — 265 p. Tells the story of how the U.S. Third Fleet weathered a severe typhoon in the Philippine Sea during December 1944. Calhoun's Typhoon is amazing in that it is part biography, leadership primer, naval architecture text, meteorological text, human interest story and seamanship text rolled into one. This is a quick read but a valuable read to...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 224 p. A narrative account of the Sterett and her 800 sailors. Calhoun was a junior officer serving on the World War II destroyer from 1939 to April 1943, when he was wounded off Guadalcanal. The author supplements his own experiences with interviews of officers and enlisted men, action reports, ship logs, and diaries. He vividly describes the...
Zenith Press, 2006. — 128 p. On December 7, 1941, about twenty minutes into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an armor-piercing bomb struck the USS Arizona, penetrating four decks before exploding. An immense fire, fed by ammunition and fuel oil, swept through the ship, instantly killing hundreds of men. The Arizona quickly settled to the bottom of the harbor, taking most of...
Lyons Press, 2015. — 336 p. On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited...
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. — 403 p. First published in Great Britain in 1985 by Conway Maritime Press. This book is dedicated to the naval weapons of WW II. Read this book and you will form clear apprehension about various types of weapons which are belonged to the different countries - participants of WW II. The list of countries includes: Great Britain, the...
Conway Maritime Press, 1978. — 114 p. Battlecruisers - Линейные крейсера. Класс кораблей просуществовавший чуть более четверти века , но оставивший яркий след в истории морской войны. Они были построены всего тремя странами - Англией , Германией и Японией. Из 24 кораблей этого класса 10 погибли в боях двух мировых войн. Книга посвящена английским и немецким линейным крейсерам...
Helion and Company, 2013. — 264 p. During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO. This membership resulted in a modernizing of its navy and its integration into the Atlantic Alliance. By 1960, when other colonial powers were abandoning their empires, Portugal made the decision to cling to its possessions, as...
Da Capo Press, 2008. — 472 p. When the heavily manned fleet of the Ottoman Empire met the ships of a fragile coalition of Christian European states in 1571, the waters off the coast of Greece, they say, “ran red with blood.” It was a victory of the West-the first major victory of Europeans against the Ottoman Empire. In this compelling piece of narrative history, Niccolò...
Roli Books, 2006. — 176 p. 9 December 1971. 8.45 p.m. Torpedoed by a Pakistani submarine, the INS Khukri sank within minutes. Along with the ship, 178 sailors and 18 officers made the supreme sacrifice. Last seen calmly puffing on his cigarette, Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, captain of the Khukri, chose to go down with his ship. This defining moment of the 1971 war between India...
Casemate, 2019. — 250 p. Sighted Sub, Sank Same examines the United States Naval air campaign against German U-boats prowling for allied merchant shipping traversing the waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean; an economic war waged to cut the lifeline of food and armaments sailing across the Atlantic from North America. This battle of the Atlantic evolved into a...
William Heinemann Australia, 2010. — 720 p. Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth. Most were young—many were still teenagers—from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they did battle with the forces of Nazi...
Random House, 2014. — 496 p. When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of having "a crack at the Kaiser." And indeed the...
Random House Australia, 2016. — 753 p. In 1928, the RAN acquired a new ship of the same name, the fast and modern heavy cruiser HMAS Australia II. During the Depression of the early 1930s the navy virtually rotted on the beach – until the world so belatedly awoke to the menace of Hitler's Germany. Australia saw her first action of World War II against the Vichy French, during...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 144 p. Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof had the distinction of being the flagship, and by far the biggest warship, of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armored cruisers still in existence in the world. Originally intended for the Italian navy,...
Hutchinson and Company, 1930. — 253 p. A record of the activities and exploits of British submarines during the First World War, together with something about the men who commanded them. Starting with action of the E-14 and E-11 in the Sea of Marmora to the end of WWI.
Amberley, 2014. — 144 p. In the first of a series of books, naval expert Phil Carradice takes us through the war at sea in 1939, using previously unpublished and rare images of the battles, the ships and the people involved. The Second World War at sea began badly for the Allies. On the day that war was declared, the unarmed passenger liner Athenia was sunk off Rockall,...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 128 p. As 1942, the fourth year of the war, began, victory for the Allies was still a long way off. German submarines were sinking ships off the coast of the United States in what would become known as the Second Happy Time’ for the U-boat crews while Allied vessels were falling victim to Japanese aircraft and warships in the Far East. Scharnhorst,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 256 p. This is the second of three volumes covering the U-boat campaign in the Atlantic during the Second World War. This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939 through to Germany’s defeat in 1945. At its...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 489 p. This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939 through to Germany’s defeat in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, which was announced the day after the declaration of war, although...
Finial Publishing, 2008. — 116 p. It was whilst researching for another book on the histories of the eleven ‘Merchant Navy’ class locomotives rescued at the end of BR steam in the 1960s that details emerged of the particularly traumatic events the relevant shipping lines had encountered during the war. It is some of the wartime stories of these eleven shipping lines which are...
Doubleday and Company, 1964. — 278 p. This is book about many different types of the military and merchant ships (from time of ancient models) is amazing, is really simple to understand and surprisingly enjoyable, no question why the author is one of the top expert at world level. This book has Stickers on it from Ron Greenberg Productions in New York City and California.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1967. — 286 p. Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first...
Random Library, 1969. — 173 p. Traces the full history of aircraft carriers from the first flight from a ship in 1910 to the present-day operations of a nuclear-powered carrier. It is still a good overview of aircraft carrier development up to the first nuclear-powered vessels.
Arcturus Digital, 2019. — 224 p. Pirates have an almost mythical status in the public imagination - we think of rogue heroes riding the high seasand 'X marks the spot'. But this image is flawed at best. Using contemporary sources, Nigel Cawthorne turns the spotlight on the reality of pirate life, revealing the truth behind the legends. It gives us an insight into infamous the...
Casemate, 2018. — 297 p. In November 1921 the first purpose-built carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the British launch of the Hermes. After WWI, battlecruisers were readily converted into aircraft carriers, with questions on how to handle the aircraft on the flight deck beginning to be raised and techniques of how to attack enemy ships beginning to...
Alexandria Library, 2012. — 350 p. Muchos lectores creerán que estamos ante una nueva novela histórica de las muchas, y algunas buenas, que en la actualidad se publican sobre este tema, o sobre temas parecidos, y esperan encontrar en sus páginas, como personajes centrales y secundarios, a un buen número de figuras de la vida española de la época de Felipe II, comenzando desde...
Arms and Armour, 1992. — 164 p. An illustrated guide to the fast, potent naval vessels which can provide a modern navy with as much power as the mighty warships of the past. The author shows how countries use them for coastal protection, offshore installation security, immigration control and fishery protection.
David & Charles Publishers, 1979. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-715376-89-6. The World's Navies. An illustrated encyclopedia of the naval forces of every nation with full specifications of their equipment and details of their strength and organisation.
Prospero books, 2001. — 456 p. The ultimate history of maritime warfare. This book presents the complete historical spectrum from the most primitive fighting vessels to the most sophisticated mammoths in use today with full technical specifications. Illustrated throughout.
Prospero books, 2001. — 456 p. The ultimate history of maritime warfare. This book presents the complete historical spectrum from the most primitive fighting vessels to the most sophisticated mammoths in use today with full technical specifications. Illustrated throughout.
Smithsonian, 1969. — 163 p. Begun as a monograph by Chapelle to present his argument that no part of the existing USS frigate Constellation dates prior to 1850 and Pollard's rebuttal to this theory. 3 detailed, fold-out diagrams; b & w illustrations, reproductions of letters, etc.; published without a dj in illustrated boards. This unusual volume has an unusual history. It...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 87 p. The British government in 1807 had issued the “Orders in Council,” which enforced a naval blockade against France, and with a shortage of seamen to man the Royal Navy, Britain also felt justified in stopping and sometimes firing on ships flying the American flag in the name of apprehending escaped British sailors. Americans had few...
Charles River Editors, 2016. — 55 p. Danger prowled under both the cold gray waters of the North Sea and the shimmering blue waves of the tropical Atlantic during World War II as Adolf Hitler's Third Reich attempted to strangle Allied shipping lanes with U-boat attacks. German and British submarines combed the vast oceanic battlefield for prey, while scientists developed new...
Charles River Editors, 2022. — 84 p. The sudden and unexpected rise of Japanese influence in the region was opposed by Russia, Germany, and France, who threatened war with Japan unless the terms that ended the war were changed. Reluctantly, the Japanese agreed to withdraw from Manchuria, but they never forgot or forgave what they saw as the way in which the unwarranted European...
Charles River Editors Books, 2019. — 104 p. This is a biography of David Glasgow Farragut (Born July 5, 1801, Died August 14, 1870), that focuses on his important and heroic service during the American Civil War. He was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the war and was the Navy's first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral. After the first year of the Civil War,...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 144 p. Submarine warfare began tentatively during the American Civil War (though the Netherlands and England made small prototypes centuries earlier, and the American sergeant Ezra Lee piloted the one-man “Turtle” vainly against HMS Eagle near New York in 1776). Robert Whitehead's invention of the torpedo introduced the weapon later used most...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 125 p. Dominated to this day by the sprawling white marble complex of the Acropolis, Athens is a city which is immensely and rightly proud of its past. For a period of roughly three centuries, the polis of Athens stood, if not in a position of unchallenged supremacy among the cities of Hellas, then at the very least among its three most important...
Charles River Editors, 2015. — 76 p. Naval combat underwent a significant metamorphosis during World War II. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan launched some of the most powerful battleships ever to sail the world's oceans, yet the conflict witnessed the emergence and triumph of the aircraft carrier as the 20th century's true monarch of the seas. Submarine warfare expanded and...
Lume Books, 2016. — 241 p. From 1914-1918, steamship raiding proved to be a lethal, but honest form of warfare as Germany endeavoured to destroy the Royal Navy. It was a vast campaign planned with the utmost precision and sought to destroy all forms of British sailing craft, weaving a global enterprise of spies and anti-British allies. In this gripping narrative, Chatterton...
L&PM, 2019. — 339 p. A história da vida do patrono da Marinha do Brasil Joaquim Marques Lisboa (1807-1897), o Almirante Tamandaré, foi protagonista dos mais importantes acontecimentos de quase um século de História do Brasil. Assim, este livro não só narra a sua vida, como também nos revela em plena ação muitos personagens que marcaram todo o século XIX, principalmente Dom...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 208 p. — ISBN-13 9781612003344. — ISBN-10 1612003346. In early April 1942, a little-known episode of World War II took place. Said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war," the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. As historian Sir Arthur Bryant said, "A Japanese naval victory in April...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 208 p. Tribals, Battles and Darings describes the three classes, each designed under different circumstances along destroyer lines but to general-purpose light cruiser form, from the interwar period through to the 1950s, and Alexander Clarke explains the procurement process for each class in the context of the needs and technology of the times....
Lucknow Books, 2015. — 138 p. In this study, three of our faculty members have combined to present a study of naval warfare. The focus is on two great naval battles—the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Jutland. Many descriptions and accounts of these battles have been produced in the past, but the approach used in this study is unique. The battles are analyzed using the US...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 288 p. In the 1870s, to supplement their early steam engines, French warships were still rigged for sail. In the 1970s the Marine Nationale’s ships at sea included aircraft carriers operating supersonic jets, and intercontinental ballistic missile submarines propelled by nuclear engines. Within this one hundred years, the Marine has played important...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2013. — 73 p. — (Warship Pictorial 41). USS Midway (CV-41) is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal. She operated for 47...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2012. — 544 p. Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805 a massive naval battle off Cape Trafalgar on the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2012. — 544 p. Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805 a massive naval battle off Cape Trafalgar on the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the...
Little Brown and Company, 2011. — 436 p. Sea Wolves is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in the front line for six long years, undertaking some of the most dangerous missions of the war. Britain's Sea Wolves operated close to shore in mined waters, attacking...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 320 p. Naval and air power was crucial to the United Nations' success in the Korean War, as it sought to negate the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval aviators sought to slow and cut off communist forces and support troops on the ground. USS Leyte (CV-32) operated off Korea in the Sea of...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 330 p. On 27 October 1942, four Long Lance torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolittle Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to...
Haus Publishing, 2010. — 285 p. Admiral Tōgō Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal Japan that had shut out foreign contact for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary "Silent Admiral, " he was at the forefront of innovations in warfare, pioneering the Japanese use of modern gunnery...
Verdun Press, 2016. — 178 p. The fascinating account of a war artist at work in the U.S. Navy Pacific command after the “Day of Infamy” attack on Pearl Harbor. This book was written and published during WWII as a home front encouragement. The idea is well expressed on the logo in one of the opening pages "Books are the weapons in the war of ideas". Propaganda or not the book is...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 259 p. This is the first full-length biography of one of the more successful officers of the Continental Navy. As it is comprehensive and exhausts what it is possible to know about Abraham Whipple from the available sources, it is likely to remain the definitive biography well into the future. Commodore Abraham Whipple (1733-1819) commanded...
Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967. — 54 p. Submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons, as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets. Submarines may also be used for reconnaissance and landing of special forces as well as deterrence. In some navies they may be used for...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 320 p. Asian Maritime Strategies explores one of the world's most complex and dangerous maritime arenas. Asia, stretching from the Aleutian Islands to the Persian Gulf, contains the world's busiest trade routes. It is also the scene of numerous maritime territorial disputes, pirate attacks, and terrorist threats. In response, the nations of the...
Shire Publications, 2015. — 72 p. In 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen -- a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor's life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East African coast to the North Sea. Meals in the...
Adlard Coles, 2013. — 96 p. Why will a sailor never go to sea on Friday 13th? Why are boats always referred to as 'she'? How do you navigate the ocean without a compass? Does the Bermuda Triangle really exist? Why do sailors wear earrings? Did Blackbeard actually exist? Did Nelson really say 'Kiss me, Hardy'? What is the correct way to bury a body at sea? Why is a rope never...
Sutton Publishing, 1999, 192 p. — ISBN10: 0750921544, ISBN13: 9780750921541. Richard Compton-Hall has combined meticulous research with his own experience as a submariner to provide an illuminating insight into the inventions and motivations of the early submarine pioneers. Wing Collars and Sea Boots Good Thinking and a Quintessential Chymist Inspiration from Above Not Going...
Ireland: Cork University Press, 2020. — 534 p. — ISBN 978-1-78205-365-1. In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privately-commissioned ships in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many who had been former ‘privateers’, merchant sailors and...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 144 p. One of the major lessons of World War II was the importance of coastal waters. It was not widely recognized beforehand just how vital the control of such waters would become, both in defending essential convoys as well as attacking those of the enemy, and in paving the way for amphibious landings. While land based aircraft could carry out offshore...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 224 p. This WWII naval history chronicles the development of small fighting boats as well as the evolution of their tactics and coastal warfare operations. Small, fast and highly maneuverable, gunboats and motor torpedo boats were a vital part of naval combat through the Second World War. Every major naval power built their own versions: The Germans...
Jerry eBooks, 2013. — 244 p. The primary purpose of this book is to describe the extraordinary versatility of what will probably be the most important fighting craft in the next war the submarines. The method the authors have chosen is to relate each of the war missions that the submarines of the United States Navy were sent out to perform, in the narratives of as many ships. Any...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 256 p. — (Being Papers read in the Naval and Military Section at the International Congress of Historical Studies, 1913). As Europe was poised on the cusp of the Great War (1914-1918), issues of national defence were of paramount concern. Despite the importance to German security of concentrating its resources on continental defence within...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 336 p. This brilliant exposition established British naval historian Julian Corbett (1854-1922) as one of the great maritime strategists. Corbett placed naval warfare within the larger framework of human conflict, proposing that the key to maritime dominance lies in effective use of sea lines for communications and in denying that use to the enemy....
Bloomsbury, 2011. — 298 p. Stories of individual pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have been the stuff of legend since the eighteenth century, but in Spanish Gold pirate expert David Cordingly at last gives us the big picture in all its bold and ruthless truth.
Random House, 1996. — 296 p. For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that...
Random House, 1996. — 357 p. For this rousing, revisionist naval history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a...
Random House, 2001. — 304 p. For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they? In this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly...
Editions Delroisse, 1987. — 154 p. La Marina de Guerra del Perú es heredera de la Armada del Mar del Sur, creada por la Corona Española en 1580 con el fin de mantener la seguridad de las rutas marítimas, en particular la de El Callao a Panamá. Luego de la independencia del Perú, el 8 de octubre de 1821, el General José de San Martín, Protector del Perú, creó la Marina de Guerra...
Joseph Henry Press, 2003. — 300 p. Deep below the gentle swell of the waves lies an alien world that even today we have only begun to explore. The quest to know more about this secret domain began in earnest in 1872 when HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, England, to map and sample the ocean floor. Sailing three and half years and 69,000 nautical miles, the story of the...
Crescent Books, 1979. — 484 p. Beginnings. Evolution of the sailing ship. Navigators and discoverers. Ships of war. Naval weaponry. Piracy, mutiny and smuggling. The world's navies. Commerce and trade. Science at sea. Ship propulsion. Ships at war. Sea travel. Dangers and disasters. Safety at sea. Pomp and circumstance.
Ian Allan, 1971. — 177 p. Good review of the major units of the French Navy of World War II. As with the other books of the series, it has high quality photos, and in depth statistics. Recommended for anyone interested in the topic. Thorough data provision at a simple level of the French Fleet in WWII, both the Vichy and Free French portions of that Navy.
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 512 p. A masterful account of a vital five months in the bloody battle for the Pacific, giving fresh insights into the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign, a key turning point in both the Pacific Theater and World War II as a whole. From popular Pacific Theater expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and...
Simon and Schuster, 2002. — 304 p. Packed with the technological details and insights into military strategy that fans of Tom Clancy relish, The Silent War is a riveting look at the darkest days of the Cold War. It reveals, in gripping detail, the espionage, innovative high technology, and heroic seafaring the United States employed against the Soviet Union in the battle for...
Barnes & Noble, 1999. — 327 p. — ISBN: 076071259X. Battleships and Carriers contains 300 of the most important and influential capital ships to have sailed the seas. This book also includes the greatest aircraft carriers that served during World Wars 2 and 11, and such active fighting vessels as the Hermes, George Washington, Enterprise and Ark Royal.
Naval Institute Press, 1998. — 336 p. Retired US naval Captain Russell Crenshaw shares his firsthand experience as the executive officer of the USS Maury, along with research of official US and Japanese records bearing on these crucial 1943 battles. Particularly noteworthy is his discussion of the impact of the then new technologies of radar and voice radio, and that of the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 165 p. 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 Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk to enemy torpedoes. After...
Maritime Books, 1981. — 108 p. Full packed with detailed informations, that also realized this big range of British submarine-classes before and since 1945. This is a good book for those wanting a close look at the RN of past years - as we hardly have a Royal Navy these days. The submarine force was cut back after the end of the war. The first British nuclear-powered submarine,...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 272 p. A classic in every sense of the word, the reissuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of glowing reviews generated, coming from both historians and participants in the proceedings that the author so eloquently relays. The book charts Crosley’s...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 224 p. When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of Britains most powerful ships were sent to pursue...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 158 p. Jutland (1916) was the only major fleet engagement to take place during the First World War, and indeed the only time in history in which columns of great dreadnought battleships fought each other. In spite of terrible losses of life, the battle did nothing to change the strategic situation in northern European waters, in fact it simply confirmed...
Dover Publications, 1992. — 274 p. Of all the ships human beings have constructed to navigate the waters of the world--from a hollowed-out log sharpened at both ends to modern ocean liners weighing thousands of tons--those powered by the wind are among the most interesting and beautiful.In this classic review, noted maritime artist Gordon Grant has created 80 magnificent line...
Ozymandias Press, 2018. — 388 p. For some inscrutable reason the deeds of sea-robbers have always possessed a fascination denied to those of their more numerous brethren of the land; and in the case of the Sea-wolves of the sixteenth century we are dealing with the very aristocrats of the profession. Circumstances over which they had no control flung the Moslem population of...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 376 p. The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written. First published in hardcover on the battle's fiftieth anniversary in 1994 and drawing on materials not previously available, it blends history with human...
McFarland and Company, 2018. — 207 p. In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. In June of 1942, Japan suffered a devastating defeat at the Battle of Midway and was never again able to take the offensive in the Pacific. Bringing fresh perspective to...
Newton Compton Editori, 2016. — 716 p. Trenta ammiragli, dall'antichità ai giorni nostri, trenta dettagliati ritratti di coloro che - da Temistocle ad Angelo Mariani - hanno condotto le grandi guerre sui mari. Alle storie di questi leggendari personaggi si accompagnano l'evoluzione delle tecniche della guerra navale e i diversi scenari strategici e marittimi che Da Frè...
Venezia: Appresso Gerolamo Albrizzi, 1715. — 727 p. Классический труд итальянского историка (из Вероны) и рыцаря Мальтийского Ордена Бартоломео даль Поццо (1637-1722) посвящен военной истории Мальтийского Ордена (или Ордена Иоаннитов) в период с 1571 по 1688 годы. В первую очередь автор исследовал боевые действия мальтийской рыцарской галерной эскадры (флота) как основы морского...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 227 p. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted primarily in a large number of ships' muster books, demonstrates that this view is false. It argues that, in fact, the...
Basic Books, 2011. — 627 p. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America’s prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean, but America’s war fleet, only twenty ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed...
Basic Books, 2013. — 377 p. A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American navy, cemented Porter's reputation as a daring and talented...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 418 p. Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 440 p. Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar...
Seaforth Publishing, 2008. — 783 p. This new reference book describes every aspect the English Navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era...
Routledge, 2019. — 346 p. This ground-breaking book provides the first study of naval ideology, defined as the mass of cultural ideas and shared perspectives that, for early modern states and belief systems, justified the creation and use of naval forces. Sixteen scholars examine a wide range of themes over a wide time period and broad geographical range, embracing Britain, the...
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 248 p. Nautilus' tells the story of the submarine, a vessel which revolutionized naval warfare in the course of 50 years, and the men who designed them and worked on them. In their short history submarines and submersible craft have played a decisive role in two world wars and today they roam the oceans, bearers of nuclear arsenals, ready to...
Louisiana State University Press, 1981. — 220 p. One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 216 p. In the summer of 1814 a squadron of Royal Navy ships attacked the tiny Connecticut seaport of Stonington, and declared its intention of destroying the town. Over the next four days the British barraged the nearly defenseless civilian population with some fifty tons of explosives, before mysteriously upping anchor and sailing away, leaving...
Greenwood Publishing, 1994. — 768 p. A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private...
Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1867. — 75 p. Danmark formåede dog at holde sig ude af Napoleonskrigene i de følgende seks år. Men i 1807 gik briterne i land på Sjælland og foretog en belejring efterfulgt af Københavns bombardement (2– 5 september 1807), der siden skulle vise sig at blive første gang, hvor der anvendtes terrorbombardementer: Militær anvendelse af terror mod civile, med...
Texas University Press, 2012. — 288 p. In 2001, while vacationing on Panama’s Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed by the ebbing tides in a small cove at Isla San Telmo. Local inquiries proved inconclusive: the wreck was described as everything from a sunken Japanese "suicide" submarine from World War II...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 352 p. The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless, others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are the battles that claimed them, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and Midway. Underwater...
Glénat Livres, 2021. — 223 p. — ISBN13 9782344050323. — ISBN10 2344050329. Une plongée au coeur des plus grandes batailles navales de l'histoire, de l'Antiquité à la guerre des Malouines Bien avant de domestiquer le cheval ou encore d'inventer la roue, l'homme va se lancer sur les eaux. Et même si les premières embarcations étaient sommaires, elles vont être l'un des facteurs...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 165 p. This young naval officer’s diary provides a unique perspective on the Gallipoli catastrophe in World War One. The Dardanelles Campaign is famously one of Sir Winston Churchill’s greatest failures, but what was it like to be there? When war broke out H. M. Denham was a sixteen-year-old cadet still at the naval college, but within weeks he found...
Teseo Press, 2023. — 290 p. Defensa e intereses marítimos estudia la influencia que la Primera Guerra Mundial ejerció sobre la Armada de la República Argentina entre 1914 y 1928, mediante el análisis de un corpus documental nutrido y con base en tendencias historiográficas recientes, como la historia global y la historia social y cultural de la guerra. En su conjunto, el libro...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 224 p. The men who ventured into the air in the Navy’s first aircraft were not only daring―they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value. Wings for the Fleet is the story of their trials, tragedies, and triumphs. These men...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 256 p. Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare analyzes the tactics, techniques, and weaponry of naval warfare from the ancient period to the modern day. Beginning with Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III’s victory over the piratical Sea Peoples in 1190 BC, and coming up-to-date with the use of aircraft carriers and the latest computerized weapons technology, the...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 255 p. Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare analyzes the tactics, techniques, and weaponry of naval warfare from the ancient period to the modern day. Beginning with Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III’s victory over the piratical Sea Peoples in 1190 BC, and coming up-to-date with the use of aircraft carriers and the latest computerized weapons technology,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 585 p. A gripping tale that transforms our understanding of the Second World War The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would have consumed Britain, and the Allied...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 352 p. From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Tony Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. After brief service in the battlecruiser Renown off Norway and against the Italians, he went into destroyers and saw action in most European theatres against S-boats and aircraft in bomb alley off...
Facts on File, 1984. — 128 p. Before the age of industry, the timber-built ship was one of the most complex and technologically advanced objects built by man. The ships were so expensive to construct that meticulous records were kept, from the purchase of timber to the last details of their furnishings. For this beautiful and highly informative book, the authors have tapped all...
Greenhill Books, 2021. — 128 p. By the middle of the eighteenth century the wooden ship had reached the peak of its development in design and construction. In particular the fighting ship of the period was a graceful vessel as well as a highly functional one, and in an age before industrialisation it was undoubtedly the most complex man-made object yet built, symbolising...
Greenhill Books, 2021. — 128 p. By the middle of the eighteenth century the wooden ship had reached the peak of its development in design and construction. In particular the fighting ship of the period was a graceful vessel as well as a highly functional one, and in an age before industrialisation it was undoubtedly the most complex man-made object yet built, symbolising...
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 256 p. While a large number of books have dealt with the navies and war at sea during the World Wars, the immediate aftermaths have generally received only minimal coverage. However, the fates of defeated navies are of enormous interest from a number of perspectives. These include the relative priorities of the victorious powers, acquisition and...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 144 p. This book is the latest in a series based entirely on original draughts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail. Using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality it reproduces complete sets in full color with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 222 p. Many works on naval history ascribe success to the special qualities of individual leaders, Nelson being the prime example. This book in contrast moves away from focusing on Nelson and other leading individuals to explore more fully how naval leadership worked in the context of a large, complex, globally-capable institution. It puts forward...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 320 p. The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill’s term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War – it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 September 1939 and ending with the torpedoing of SS Avon Dale on 7 May 1945. This superbly researched work covers all the major aspects of The Battle, balancing the...
Centro de Historia de Lisboa, 2004. — 520 p. Академическая исследовательская работа португальского ученого освещает вопросы теории и практики португальского военного судостроения в XVI-XVII веках, особенности технологий конструирования и строительства военных парусных кораблей португальского флота этого времени (с учетом регулярных длительных океанических плаваний к португальским...
Havertown: Casemate, 2010. — 240 p. While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign—dubbed “Anaconda”—that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce, thus rendering the exploits of its field armies moot. When an independent Dixie finally met the dustbin...
Maverick Publication, 2009. — 556 p. USS New Mexico (BB 40 s) career touched upon the events of three centuries, (19th, 20th and 21st). Her design, prepared approximately ninety-eight years after Nelson s victory at Trafalgar, incorporated the lessons of the line of battle. She was designed as a battleship, a ship intended to serve in the van as did HMS Victory. USS New Mexico...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 388 p. This is the biography of one of the Royal Navy’s legendary pilots. ‘BF’ or ‘Daddy’ as he was known, started his career at Dartmouth and then spent his early seagoing years in Hong Kong, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. His wartime experiences as a Fleet Air pilot aboard HMS Glorious included the historic air strike at Taranto and the search for the Graf...
HMH Books, 2001. — 272 p. The “remarkable story” of a tall ship’s history in WWII and beyond—and the sailors who have inhabited it, both German and American. Hamburg, 1936: A splendid three-masted sailing ship is christened Horst Wessel in the presence of Adolf Hitler and thousands of cheering Nazis. It would become a training vessel for naval officers during World War II—but...
Grove Press, 2007. — 360 p. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the “Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur’s flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 198 p. This edited volume analyzes national security issues with maritime implications, and, specifically, naval projects and postures of main South Atlantic countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa. Additionally, it provides comprehensive and multi-level analysis of the interplay among national interests in the processes of demarcation...
McFarland and Company, 2014. — 224 p. This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, electrician's school, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Program, assignment to the USS Henry Clay during an overhaul in Charleston, South Carolina, subsequent transit to Hawaii, and deterrent patrols out of Guam....
Éditions de la Sorbonne, 1987. — 286 p. Les 26 contributions réunies dans ce volume renouvellent quelques-uns des secteurs de l'histoire maritime, en attirant l'attention sur la méthodologie, les recherches récentes, les problématiques nouvelles, la recherche interdisciplinaire, l'archéologie, l'iconographie et le roman. On suit pendant deux millénaires quelques-uns des...
On Naval Inst, 1990. — 408 p. Contains the only published photographs of the damage sustained by HMS Prince of Wales in her action with the Bismarck. Updated to include British and French radar systems as well as extensive information on the French Richelieu-class and a sketch of the Alsace-class.
Naval Institute Press, 1990. — 543 p. One of three volumes that trace the design, construction, and operation of post-1930 battleships and battlecruisers.
Jane’s Publishing Co., 1980. — 415 p. This lavishly detailed and illustrated study discusses all battleships constructed after 1930 for the British and French navies. Battleships that were begun and/or designed for the Soviet and Dutch navies are also presents.
University of Nebraska Press, 2009, 268 p. — ISBN10: 080321930X, ISBN13: 9780803219304. Studies in War, Society, and the Militar For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called ships of the line dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2012. — 212 p. For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War of Independence and was mostly trapped in port by the end of the War of 1812. How this meager presence became the major naval power it remains to this day is the subject of American Naval...
Plunkett Lake Press, 2001. — 364 p. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have been written about various aspects of his career, this is the first biography to have access to private papers, family and close friends. It not only deals with the admiral's controversial...
Australia @ War, 2017. — 198 p. The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first major naval engagement in history, which was decided without the opposing ships firing a shot at each other. The battle was brought to the opposing ships by the naval air support of the opposing enemy force. It was a tactical victory for the Japanese but a strategic victory for the Allies. The Prime...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 320 p. Though for most participants World War I ended on 11 November 1918, the Royal Navy found itself, despite four years of slaughter and war weariness, fighting a fierce and brutal battle in the Baltic Sea against Bolshevik Russia in an attempt to protect the fragile independence of the newly liberated states of Estonia and Latvia. This new...
Seaforth Publishing, 2018. — 317 p. Bayly's Waris the story of the Royal Navy's Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War I. After the sinking of the Lusitaniain May 1915 and the introduction of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, Britain found herself engaged in a fight for survival as U-boats targeted all incoming...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 256 p. Blockade is the story of a long-running trade battle at sea between Britain and Germany during the First World War. Each country fought for survival, but this book focuses on the story of the Northern Patrol and the 10th Cruiser Squadron. The Royal Navy's role during World War I denying Germany access to the sea, trade, and vital resources...
Random House, 2014. — 160 p. In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream: spending time on an aircraft carrier. Geoff 's stay on the USS George Bush - on active service in the Arabian Gulf - proved even more intense, memorable - and frequently hilarious - than he could ever have hoped. The warship become a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life:...
Ian Allan, 1981. — 100 p. This book detailing the history of the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers and naval air squadrons, during the Second World War. The Fleet Air Arm tried to recover from the impact of dual control and economic stringencies during the inter-war period while conducting a wide range of operations. There is in depth coverage of significant...
Independently publoshed, 2022. — 430 p. The main objective of this narrative is to attempt to present a timeline related to the cultural, social, and historical events that allowed the Romans to almost instantaneously design and construct the ancient world’s most powerful naval fleet. This seemingly surprising and almost impossible task was accomplished despite the fact that...
Bellona, 2002. — 399 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). As part of an overall French plan to combine all French and allied fleets to...
New Era Writer's Guild, 1995. — 232 p. This convoy must not get through—U-boats pursue, attack and sink. This was the signal that Admiral Denitz sent to the commanders of the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on September 9, 1941 just before the United States entered the war. Sixty-three merchant ships were strung out in 12 columns abreast, covering 25 miles of inhospitable...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 207 p. In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North Africa.To convey 70,000 troops and their equipment required 600 merchant ships crossing the U-boat infested North Atlantic. The need for their protection meant withdrawing escorts from the routine convoys. Amongst those left without adequate...
Pen and Sword Books, 2002. — 210 p. Bernard Edwards, the formidable naval historian, has researched the fate of Convoys PQ13 and PQ17 bound from Iceland to Northern Russia as well as the westbound Convoy QP13. Attacked relentlessly by aircraft and U-boats, the former lost a total of thirty ships while QP13 ran into a British minefield off Iceland, losing seven vessels. The Road to...
The O'Brien Press, 2018. — 368 p. Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight. Des Ekin embarks on a road trip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an amazing history of swashbuckling bandits, both Irish-born and imported. Ireland’s Pirate Trail...
Naval War College Press, 2019. - 143 p. - (Newport Papers). This Newport Paper will examine the role of offshore islands in twentieth-century East Asian history, in particular those islands in the Taiwan Strait that were disputed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) during the 1950s and afterward, and how these apparently insignificant islands...
Naval War College Press, 2010. — 273 p. — (Newport Papers). Piracy is a basic and fundamental concern for all navies. From almost the beginning of state-sponsored navies, piracy suppression has been one of their major responsibilities—when Julius Caesar was captured by pirates in 76 BCE, the first thing he did after paying the pirates’ ransom and being released was to fit “out...
Naval War College Press, 2013. — 341 p. — (Newport Papers). The sixteen case studies in this book reflect the extraordinary diversity of experience of navies attempting to carry out, and also to eliminate, commerce raiding during long time: from 1755 to 2009 years. Because the cases emphasize conflicts in which commerce raiding had major repercussions, they shed light on when,...
Routledge, 2006. — 343 p. This new collection of up-to-date essays by well-known scholars covers the most significant naval blockades of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Napoleon's Continental Blockade of England and the American Civil War, as well as blockades in more recent conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Persian Gulf...
New York: Routledge, 2011. — 235 p. This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and...
Naval War College Press, 2015. — 231 p. — (Newport Papers). Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies of Naval Power and the Nonuse of Military Force, edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S. C. M. Paine, presents nine historical cases of the use of navies in non-military missions. These studies, by established and emerging scholars in a wide variety of fields, support current U.S....
London: Routledge, 2008. — 247 p. This is the first scholarly book examining naval coalition warfare over the past two centuries from a multi-national perspective. Containing case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, it also examines the impact of international law on coalitions. Together these collected essays comprise a...
Naval Institute Press, 1980. — 224 p. A very fine almost unopened copy of this interesting story of the British navy's use og Grand Harbour a.o. since the takeover after Napoleon and until their leaving Malta for good almost 200 years later.
Blandford Press». – 1976. – 210 с. Прекрасно оформленная энциклопедия по военному флоту стран мира Второй Мировой войны, от практически классического издательства.
Gorgias Press, 2018. — 221 p. Translated from Hebrew, this groundbreaking study sets out to answer one simple question: who were the commanders of the early Islamic navy? Using the prosopographical method, Elmakias unearths fresh information about early Islam's inexperienced and pioneering naval commanders. Through their fascinating biographies, we learn about the people who...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 413 p. During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning a direct fight. The Germans...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 412 p. During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning a direct fight. The Germans...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2014. — 328 p.
When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades...
Routledge, 2022. — 174 p. — (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History). This book addresses the issues raised by Chinese and North Korean maritime ‘gray zone’ activities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. For years, China has been harassing its neighbors in South China Sea and East China Sea, employing both coast guard and maritime militia forces, in the name of safeguarding Chinese...
Springer, 2022. — 197 p. This book is an enthralling account of the role played by the destroyer ARA Bouchard in the Falklands/Malvinas War 1982. Over forty years after its construction, with obsolete technology, scarce maintenance and many out-of-service machineries, it was still present during the whole campaign with a prominent role that, for several reasons, remained hidden...
National Publication and Printing House, 1966. — 204 p. Фундаментальное классическое исследование системы арабского военного флота и военного судостроения в VII-X веках. Автор подробно описывает типы и конструкции арабских военных кораблей в Средиземном море, материалы, из которых они строились, а также источники финансирования военного кораблестроения. Автор рассматривает в своей...
Springer, 1986. — 417 p. Changing Navies and Naval Technology. The Internationalisation of the Warship-Building Industry. The Internationalisation of Warship Equipment Industries. Concentration and Specialisation in Naval Industries. Rationalisation in European NATO Armaments - Political and Industrial Preconditions.
Wildside Press, 2016. — 256 p. From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power ― and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato,...
Wildside Press, 2015. — 255 р. From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power—and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato,...
Andarta Books, 2019. — 327 p. The sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. The impact could be felt far beyond the shoreline, as the arms and armies carried across the oceans were ultimately destined to wage war ashore. Populations and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 170 p. In the vast literature of the First World War there has never been a naval atlas that depicts graphically the complexities of the war at sea, and puts in context the huge significance of the naval contribution to the defeat of Germany. With more than 125 beautifully designed maps and charts, the atlas sets out to visualise the great sea battles...
WM Paperbacks, 2013.
An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disasters.
From the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of insufficient planning, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others were caused by ideas that didn't...
Harper Collins, 2013. — 368 p. From the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of insufficient planning, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others were caused by ideas that didn't hold water in the first place. In glorious detail,...
Casemate Publishers, 2002. — 288 p. Written by the leading Danish authority on the period, this splendid work brings to life Nelson's naval historic victory immortalized by his so famously turning a blind eye to his superiors order to halt operations. As well as describing the brilliance of the British tactics, the work fascinatingly reveals the desperate action and great...
Editions des Écrivains, 2000. — 127 p. La marine de guerre arabo-musulmane : dans la Méditerranée depuis son apparition, vers 647 jusqu'au deuxième siège de Constantinople, 717-718. История создания, развития и боевого использования военно-морского флота Арабского халифата (с 647) в противодействии с Византийской империей в Средиземном море.
Bilbao: Foro Marítimo Vasco, 2006. — 226 p. Acaba de nacer un nuevo libro, una obra que ofrece una excelente panorámica de lo que la mar representa para el pueblo vasco y lo que los marinos vascos han representado para la historia de ese pueblo. Los vascos siempre han vivido unidos a la mar y han hecho de ella la mejor de sus industrias, la vía de su progreso y el orgullo de su...
Madrid: E.T.S.I. Navales, 2006. — 152 p. The ships of the three nations that fought at Trafalgar (1805) were serving in their navies for years before the battle. Their ages ranged from few months to over forty years. Their hulls and masts suffered from high seas and from ferocious combats as most of those ships sailed across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Many of these...
Nowtilus, 2015. — 269 p. La batalla naval más polémica de todos los tiempos, un terrible choque entre dos imperios que pugnaban por el dominio del mediterráneo. Acérquese a los hombres, los barcos y las tácticas que marcaron el final de la amenaza turca sobre Europa. Breve Historia de la batalla de Lepanto (1571) es la única obra que integra en un solo volumen de extensión...
Nowtilus, 2014. — 339 p. Emociónate con la historia de la batalla naval más decisiva de todos los tiempos. Comprende por qué la victoria del almirante Nelson sobre españoles y franceses hizo posible un siglo y medio de hegemonía británica en el mundo. Breve Historia de la batalla de Trafalgar es la única obra que integra en un solo volumen de extensión reducida la información...
Praeger, 1995. — 278 p. By piecing together diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, the author has created a story which tells how America's ragtag navy―composed mainly of converted yachts, steamers and tugboats―was able to fight and win against the more powerful Spanish gunboats. The naval battles fought in places like Santiago, Cardenas, Cienfuegos,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2016. — 163 p. The battleships of the world’s navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge of 1577: they were wooden-built, sail-powered and mounted guns on the broadside, firing solid shot. In the next half century, steel, steam and shells had wrought a transformation and by 1906, Dreadnought had ushered in a revolution in naval...
Leonaur Ltd., 2007. — 176 p. The wars against Napoleonic France and Spain in the early years of the nineteenth century have long fascinated historians and casual readers who are enchanted by the colour and romance of those incredible times. No aspect of the period has generated more interest and enthusiasm than the war at sea-fought between great naval commanders whose names from...
Bellona, 1994. — 259 p. Bitwa jutlandzka (w historiografii niemieckiej zwana bitwą na Skagerraku,niem. Skagerrakschlacht) – bitwa morska stoczona 31 maja i 1 czerwca 1916 rokuna Morzu Północnym w pobliżu Półwyspu Jutlandzkiego i Skagerraku, pomiędzyzespołami flot: brytyjskiej Royal Navy i niemieckiej Kaiserliche Marine. Była to największa bitwa morska I wojny światowej i jedyne...
Doubleday and Company, 1956. — 296 p. No one has been so well equipped as Cecil S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812, to characterize the heroes more skillfully, or to comprehend more shrewdly the world unrest that made it possible for an infant republic to embarrass a great nation rich in one hundred years of sea triumphs.
Routledge, 2005. — 244 p. A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their consequences for Greek national aims, the Mediterranean naval situation and the Balkan balance of power. Within this context, it also examines the competition...
Seaforth Publishing, 2009. — 448 p. This is an excellent study of the campaign and battle of June 1666 – ‘the greatest battle in the Age of Sail’, fought between the Royal Navy and the United Provinces during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The book is told primarily from the English view, due to the nature of the sources, but the activities of the Dutch, French and Danes are...
Endeavour Media, 2019. — 392 p. No other battle of the Second World War lasted longer than the 2,075 days of the Battle of the Atlantic. It raged from the opening day of the war in September 1939 until it ended almost six years later with Germany’s surrender in May 1945. Vital supplies of food, fuel and the raw materials needed by the Allies to wage war had to be transported in...
Lume Books, 2020. — 103 p. In May 1942, the Americans discovered the Japanese planned to take Port Moresby in New Guinea. After suffering a devastating series of setbacks after Pearl Harbour, it was vital that US forces prevent another loss. Admiral Frank Fletcher was dispatched with two navy task forces and an Australian-US cruiser with orders to destroy the Japanese invasion...
Endeavour Press, 2012. — 55 p. Never was there a naval battle like Midway. It was fought at a place thousands of miles from land, by hundreds of planes over distances of hundreds of miles. It saw four massive Japanese aircraft carriers pitted against three similarly huge American carriers in a battle for domination of the Pacific. The battle is the story of the young Japanese...
Lume Books, 2019. — 240 p. Whirlwind: War In The Pacific is a brilliant narrative history of three of the crucial naval battles of the Second World War. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the period. Pearl Harbor: Hinge of War When Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 194, thousands of American lives were lost and their military...
Despot infinitus, 2020. — 330 p. Brodovi Jugoslavenske ratne mornarice (JRM-a) iz razdoblja od 1945. do 1991. godine, unatoč čestoj nazočnosti u medijima, nisu bili dovoljno javno poznati ni sustavno opisivani, jer su pripadali kategorijama “povjerljivo” ili “vojna tajna”. Za razliku od brodova bivše Kraljevske mornarice, točni podatci o brodovima JRM-a bili su dostupni u nizu...
Despot infinitus, 2020. — 367 p. Until now, there was no book – except some maritime encyclopedias and international yearbooks– where everything about the warships of the former Royal Yugoslav Navy (RYN), their characteristics, histories and fates could be found on one single place. The already well-known marine author Zvonimir Freivogel undertook the task to compile the data...
Guinness Superlatives, 1975. — 260 p. The longest evolution of naval warfare on sea during the ages, with illustrations, bibliography and index. Naval warfare is human combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years.
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 464 p. Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Because radar was not invented until the mid-1930s, fleet air...
Pen and Sword Books, 2014. — 320 p. The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war - even the inevitability of British participation - arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about access to worldwide resources, most clearly seen in...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 900 p. This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what Friedman's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery - it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It traces the growing aerial threat from its inception in WWI and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of WWII, highlighting in...
Seaforth Publishing, 2013. — 939 p. For more than half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a 'firing solution' was a significant problem made all the more difficult when gun sizes increased and...
Conway Maritime Press, 1981. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0-85177-238-2. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is entitled "Theory, Function, Performance" consisting of nine chapters of a total of 140 pages. This part covers radar fundamental, hardware, the things radar is used for, and historical development. It also includes a few closely related non-radar subjects like...
Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 977 p. Glossary and abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Introduction . Units of Measurement. Guns . British Guns. German Guns. US Guns. French Guns. Italian Guns. Russian Guns. Japanese Guns. Austrian Guns. Spanish Guns. Swedish Guns. Other Navies’ Guns. Torpedoes . British Torpedoes. German Torpedoes. Us torpedoes. French Torpedoes. Italian Torpedoes....
Naval Institute Press, 1986. — 244 p. The warships of 1960 look quite different from those of 1945. In 1945, gun-armed battleships and cruisers were important weapons systems and the primary anti-aircraft weapon was a heavy machine gun. Aircraft carriers had straight decks and propeller aircraft. Depth charges were the major anti-submarine weapons. By 1960, the gun-armed surface...
New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1902. - 396 p. Добротная и интересная классическая книга американского историка о лучших (по его мнению) флотоводцах в мировой истории Нового времени. Выбор автора, безусловно, далек от максимальной полноты охвата, но те персонажи, биографии которых он выбрал для своей книги - никаких сомнений не вызывают. Адмиралы Фрэнсис Дрейк, Маартен Тромп,...
Harvard University Press, 1925. — 359 p. All the volumes that can be written on the naval strategy of the World War will not be able to add anything to this unmistakable statement of the real situation. To understand this utter failure on the part of the Germans to prepare in advance for an aggressive use of the naval arm, it is only necessary to realize the strange, abnormal...
Harvard University Press, 1926. — 380 p. All the volumes that can be written on the naval strategy of the World War will not be able to add anything to this unmistakable statement of the real situation. To understand this utter failure on the part of the Germans to prepare in advance for an aggressive use of the naval arm, it is only necessary to realize the strange, abnormal...
Harvard University Press, 1926. — 320 p. With the publication of the third volume in July, 1926, Captain Thomas G. Frothingham brings to a close his authoritative history of the naval side of the First World War. The earlier volumes have received high commendation from both naval authorities and competent critics.
University of California Press, 2020. — 302 p. Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains....
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1984. — 288 s.; il. — IS8N 84-239-5768-3. En las antiguas marinas de guerra no existfan buques clasificados como cru ceros: los buques de guerra se clasifica ban principal mente por su tamario, en navfos, fragatas V corbetas. Habfa ademas otras distinciones para los buques menores, basandose en su aparejo de vela, como bergantines V goletas, 0 en su...
Times Books, 1986. — 320 p. Traces the development of warships from ancient Egyptian sailing ships to U.S. aircraft carriers and provides background information about each type of ship.
Broadway Books, 2010. — 272 p. The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa. April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpowering the once-mighty Japanese...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 512 p. In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others. It was the forty-fifth month of World War II, and by the end of May the Germans were forced to acknowledge defeat and recall...
Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 158 p. Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy warships were captured in...
Booksales, 2001. — 191 p. Between 1840 and 1905, sail was replaced by steam, wooden hull construction with iron and then steel, and the shell-firing gun encouraged the adoption of armor plate. For this first time, this volume - the fourth in an ambitious series - offers a proper understanding of this neglected, misunderstood but fascinating period in shipbuilding.
Naval Institute Press, 1996. — 200 p. The struggle for American independence constituted a new form of conflict, in which the issue was political as well as economic. Widespread opposition to British rule made it impossible for the occupying armies to hold more than small pockets of territory, inevitably on the coast where they could be supported and supplied by the Navy. This...
Conway Maritime Press, 2004. — 211 p. Although purpose built fighting ships had existed earlier, the principal characteristics of the classic sailing warship were defined in the mid-seventeenth century, and the line of battle ship became ever more distinct. Alongside came the greater specialisation of the fleets and the evolution of the frigate and the adaptation of myriad...
Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 158 p. Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy warships were captured in battle and...
Routledge, 2016. — 257 p. This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare between 1914 and 1945 it studies the deeds of...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 384 p. Since 2008 increasing pirate activities in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean have once again drawn the international community's attention to piracy and armed robbery at sea. States are resolved to repress these impediments to the free flow of trade and navigation. To this end a number of multinational counter-piracy...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 264 p. Gallons of ink have been used analyzing Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's thoughts, his naval theories, and his contribution to sea power. One vital aspect of his life, however, has been ignored or misunderstood by many scholars: his religious faith. Mahan was a professing Christian who took his faith with the utmost seriousness, and as a...
Società Italiana di Storia Militare, 2006. — 194 p. La Battaglia di Tsushima Mariano Gabriele. Aspetti degli scenari politico-diplomatici all’inizio del XX secolo. Alberto Santoni. Caratteristiche politico-militari della Guerra russo-giapponese. Marco Gemignani. Il trasferimento della Seconda e della Terza Squadra del Pacifico e la Battaglia di Tsushima. Alessandro Ronconi....
Birlinn Press, 2000. — 150 p. Under the terms of the treaty ending World War I, the German High Seas Fleet was compelled to sail to the Scottish anchorage at Scapa Flow. Before the British could take control of the ships, the German officers scuttled the fleet, sending 16 capital ships and numerous smaller craft to the bottom. From 1924 the German ships were raised and their...
Crescent, 1985. — 272 p. This book divides the history of capital ships, from about the Civil War era, to WWII, by decades, with the battleships and battlecruisers listed according to their commissioning dates. While -- not unexpectedly -- a goodly amount of space is devoted to ships of the great naval powers (such as the US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, etc.), there is also...
Osprey Publishing, 1994. ― 64 p. ― (Ejercitos y Batallas 06). A pesar de la oposición política que encontró en Buenos Aires (y una inquietud pública generalizada, debido al recuerdo de la desastrosa Guerra de las Malvinas), el Gobierno argentino envió dos barcos para unirse a las fuerzas de la Coalición. El destructor Meko 360 ARA Almirante Brown (DIO) y la fragata Meko 140 ARA...
McFarland and Company, 2015. — 203 p. The 20 World War II Merchant Marine veterans featured in this oral history served in all theaters of war. Most had at least one ship torpedoed, bombed, shelled or mined out from under them. Some became prisoners of the Japanese for the duration of the war. Many spent time on lifeboats or flimsy rafts under harsh conditions.
Dundurn Press, 2009. — 255 p. This lavishly illustrated commemorative volume chronicles the full century, 1910-2010, of the Canadian Navy as a proud national institution. Known Officially until 1968 as the Royal Canadian navy and since then as the Maritime Command of the Canadian Forces, the naval service of Canada has played an important role in the development and security of...
Routledge, 2017. — 564 p. In recent decades historians have studied several new aspects of early modern naval history and placed it in a wider context than traditional studies of naval warfare. This volume brings together 23 studies on naval technology, policy-making and administration, tactics, strategy, operations and warfare on trade. They provide new insights and new ideas...
Routledge, 1999. — 249 p. The author of the remarkable two-volume work "Navies and Nations", Swedish Naval historian Jan Glete, gives us a fine comparative study of Warfare at Sea and its implications for early European states in this accessible, yet solid study. As a naval officer and PhD student in comparative politics, there are in particular two valuable features of the...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 345 p. In this book, Michael Glynn explores a journey through the history of more than one hundred years of aerial sub hunting. From the Great War, through the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II and on to the secret confrontations of the Cold War, the reader will witness the parallel evolution of both aircraft and submarine as each side tries to...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 345 p. In this book, Michael Glynn explores a journey through the history of more than one hundred years of aerial sub hunting. From the Great War, through the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II and on to the secret confrontations of the Cold War, the reader will witness the parallel evolution of both aircraft and submarine as each side tries to...
50Minutos, 2015. — 47 p. La batalla de Lepanto es uno de los enfrentamientos navales más importantes de la historia. En un contexto de luchas por el control del Mediterráneo, intensificadas desde la toma de Constantinopla por parte de los turcos en 1453, el Imperio otomano ataca constantemente a los cristianos para expandir su territorio. Cuando el papa Pío V decide...
Naval War College Press, 1993. - 405 p. The Proceedings of a Conference on the Works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond (Naval War College Historic), what deed in September 1992 in Newport. This book consisted from 14 large essays about Naval Strategy, Tactics, Armor and Education during XIX-XX centuries of the naval history of the different navies.
Routledge, 2012. — 320 p. — (Naval Policy and History). This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II. The navies of South-East Asia have rarely been the subject of systematic attention but, as the maritime strategic balance within Asia becomes more complex and open to challenge through...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 352 p. After Jutland analyzes the naval war in Northern European waters following the Battle of Jutland (1916). A popular misconception is that Jutland marked the end of the operational career of the German High Sea Fleet and the beginning of a period of stagnation for both it and its opponents, Great Britain's Grand Fleet and Russia's Baltic...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 401 p. "Before Jutland" is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-1915 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic. Author James Goldrick reexamines one of the key periods of naval operations in the First World War, arguing that a focus on the...
Routledge, 1994. — 329 p. The Washington Conference regulated the inter-war naval race between the world powers. In the era when it was still believed that battleships were the epitome of naval power and a sign of a country's strength, this conference led to limitations on the building of such weapons by the naval powers of Britain, the USA and Japan. This collection of essays...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 398 p. No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft. Whether it was an American ’plane operating from American escort carriers, US aircraft from Royal Air Force bases, or British aircraft from bases throughout the world, these officers and men became the most decisive factor in turning the tide of the Battle of...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 398 p. No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft. Whether it was an American ’plane operating from American escort carriers, US aircraft from Royal Air Force bases, or British aircraft from bases throughout the world, these officers and men became the most decisive factor in turning the tide of the Battle of...
Napoleon V, 2018. — 272 s. Autor pracy posiadał ogromna wiedzę na temat korsarzy i piratów pływających po morzach w różnych zakątkach świata. Swoją pracę podzielił na cztery części. Pierwsza z nich poświęcona jest piratom muzułmańskim, zwanym berberyjskimi. Rabowali oni statki na Morzu Śródziemnym i Oceanie Atlantyckim. W części drugiej przedstawiono piratów północy- przede...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 224 p. The period covered in this book is well known for its epic battles and grand campaigns of territorial conquest, but Hellenistic monarchies, Carthaginians, and the rapacious Roman Republic were scarcely less active at sea. Huge resources were poured into maintaining fleets not only as symbols of prestige but as means of projecting real...
Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2011. — 360 p. — ISBN: 0756671868. A visual journey through 3,000 years of naval warfare-now in paperback! From the clash of galleys in Ancient Greece to deadly encounters between nuclear-powered submarines in the 20th century, explore every aspect of the story of naval warfare on, under, and above the sea.
The Free Press, 1992. — 392 p. The technological advances in the machinery of space, nuclear and air warfare have obscured the importance of naval power. Using examples from Ancient Greece to the Gulf War, Gray argues that control of the sea is vital to strategic planning. The book shows how the various ways in which sea-power can be used to decisively influence the outcome of...
Pen and Sword, 1988. — 275 p. This book tells the story of bravest captains of submarines and their experiences at under-water war. This book, which spans both World Wars, is an attempt to delve more deeply into the characters and personal achievements of seventeen individual submarine captains drawn from the navies of Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, Poland and...
Pen and Sword, 1988. — 275 p. This book tells the story of bravest captains of submarines and their experiences at under-water war. This book, which spans both World Wars, is an attempt to delve more deeply into the characters and personal achievements of seventeen individual submarine captains drawn from the navies of Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, Poland and...
Pen and Sword, 1996. — 301 p. A revised edition of an account of peacetime submarine disasters from 1774 to the present day, previously published in 1991. Examines the development of the submarine from experimental stages in the late 18th century to the present day, and provides details of all disasters ever reported.
Naval Institute Press, 2004. — 264 p. Although it forever changed the tactics of naval warfare, the torpedo is one of the world's most under-researched weapons and its inventors the most neglected. To correct this oversight, Edwyn Gray follows up on his popular study of Robert Whitehead's torpedoes by taking a look at seventy other torpedoes and the men who invented them. He...
Pen and Sword, 1994. — 272 p. A very nice description of World War I U-boat developments, naval actions and strategy. Most of the emphasis is on describing U-boat action in a chronological order. It's fairly easy to find similar descriptions of U-boat action in WWII, harder for WW! and this fills the bill for those with an interest in submarines generally and WWI U-boat in...
Combined Books, 1994. — 263 p. Game designer and author Jack Greene has once again assembled his team of graphics artists and international researchers to present a visually impressive treatment of a crucial World War II campaign, offering an insightful examination of Japan's aims, assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as a thought-provoking analysis of the Pacific...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 352 p. The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and skillful historians. Such histories are, of course, the products of many years, even decades, of accumulated knowledge, but also of a received consensus of how the war played out to its, seemingly,...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 208 p. Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on Tirpitz by midget submarines, the contribution by...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 272 p. Dispatches in this volume include those covering the Battle of Matapan in 1941, Fleet Air Arm operations in 1940, the Battle of Sirte in 1942, the action with the Italian Fleet off Calabria (Central Mediterranean) in 1940, the engagement between British and Italian forces off Cape Spartivento (Central Mediterranean) in 1940, the Mediterranean...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 216 p. On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assisted by ships from the Royal Australian Navy. The Japanese were aware that the Americans were poised to attack the Philippines and planned to draw the American warships into one last great battle to try...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 318 p. — (Historische Mitteilungen - Beihefte 81). Piraterie ist aufgrund der zahlreichen Übergriffe vor der Küste von Somalia und im Golf von Aden wieder verstärkt in den Fokus einer größeren Öffentlichkeit geraten. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Operation Atalanta zum Schutz der zivilen Seefahrt, sondern auch um Fragen, die Staatlichkeit,...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 417 p. A military historian and naval warfare expert delivers a revealing history of the Baltic Sea Campaigns and their significance throughout WWII. From the Battle of Westerplatte on the Polish coast in 1939 to the thousands of German refugees lost at sea in 1945, the Baltic witnessed continuous fighting throughout the Second World War. This...
Tri-Service Press, 1990. — 222 p. Historian Eric J. Grove is a well-known naval authority and historian, highly regarded for his analytical expertise. In this series he brings together all his experience and contacts to provide the very latest information on the world's in-service European NATO navies during to 1990.
Brockhampton Press, 1998. — 194 p. By assessing three of the largest and most decisive major fleet actions - Tsushima, Jutland and the Philippine Sea - this text shows how this form of naval battle has evolved through eras which have brought new weaponry and firepower, enhanced communication and aerial support.
Routledge, 2022. — 295 p. This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It analyses the lessons of twentieth-century naval warfare and examines in detail the changing face of naval warfare, both in terms of the weapons used and the platforms from which they are launched and controlled. It looks at the evolving uses of the seas,...
Victoria & Albert Pubns, 2003. — 352 p. Interspersing topical chapters with chronological ones, Guilmartin (history and early modern European history, Ohio State U.) explores how the Mediterranean system of armed conflict at sea operated over the course of the 16th century. Among his findings is that the war galley held it own against the broadside sailing vessel into the 1580s;...
New York: Arco Publishing Company Inc., 1977. — ISBN10: 0668041072, ISBN13: 978-0668041072. Development of Submarine Technology The Color Plates Early Submarines Submarine Development 1918-45 The Modern Era Some Typical A/S Weapons for Surface Ships Some Submarine Weapons Some Airborne A/S Systems Comparative Data
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 488 p. This is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940. Beginning with the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919, it then covers the rebuilding of the Kriegsmarine and parallel developments in the Royal Navy, and in the European navies. Focusing on the actions at sea after...
Seaforth Publishing, 2013. — 488 p. The term 'the phony war' is often applied to the first months of the Second World War, a term suggesting inaction or passivity. That may have been the perception of the war on land, but at sea it was very different. This new book is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940. The...
Second Edition. — Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 320 p. In Fire on the Water, Robert Haddick contends that much of the general public and many U.S. policy experts are unaware of the threat that China’s naval military modernization poses to America’s national interests in the Asia-Pacific region. He maintains that within a decade China will have the military power to place U.S....
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 615 p. This book aims to provide a definitive work on the First World War at sea. It aims to cover, in a single volume, many aspects of the naval war and to treat the conflict, from the viewpoints of "all" the participants rather than just the Anglo-German perspective.A Naval History of World War I represents a major contribution to our...
Indiana University Press, 2004. — 186 p. Called by some a "Mediterranean Jutland," the Battle of the Otranto Straits (15 May 1917) involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. Although fought by light units with no dreadnoughts involved, Otranto was a battle in three dimensions―engaging surface vessels, aircraft, and subsurface weapons (both submarines and...
Unwin Hyman, 1987. — 652 p. Apart from the controversial Dardanelles campaign and the dramatic escape of the Goeben and Breslau in 1914, the Mediterranean during the First World War has been largely neglected by historians. This major study goes beyond a single campaign to look at the entire war in the area. It does not remain centred on one or two powers, but looks at the war...
Routledge, 2015. — 652 p. This volume, originally published in 1987, fills a gap in a neglected area. Looking at the entire war in the Mediterrean, the volume examines the war from the viewpoint of all the important participants, making full use of archives and manuscript collections in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United States. A fascinating mosaic of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 158 p. A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the Athenians, since losing the battle would have led to their total defeat by Sparta...
Routledge, 2017. — 582 p. This collection of essays sets out to present a sample of the rich diversity of writings on naval history in this period. The collection covers subjects ranging from strategy, operations and tactics, to administration, technology and the maritime economy. Within this volume the reader will be able to see essays that influenced the development of modern...
Servicio de Publicaciones Científica de ULPGC, 2012. — 335 p. The essays in this volume concerning Britain and the United Provinces suggest that this idea might be worth some further investigation. Britain seemed to be operating in an environment in which supply chain management was much easier than in Spain or France. The situation was far from perfect, but, as Knight and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 265 p. Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance. Navies play an important role in the...
London: UCL Press Ltd., 1999. — 356 p. From the author of "Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century" and "The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815", this book serves as a single- volume survey of war at sea and the expansion of naval power in the 18th century. Examines the development of warships and the evolution of sea power over nearly two centuries. The book is...
Conway Maritime Press, 1985. — 480 p. An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-Of-War 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources. Describes the proper historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world. In order to explain even the most complex evolution clearly, over 350 line drawings were specially commissioned. Every aspect of handling a...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 256 p. The Royal Navy had ruled the sea unchallenged for 100 years since Nelson triumphed at Trafalgar. Yet when the Grand Fleet faced the German High Seas Fleet across the grey waters of the North Sea near Jutland the British battleships and cruisers were battered into a draw, losing far more men and ships than the enemy. The Grand Fleet far outnumbered...
Franklin Watts, 1965. — 256 p. In the years following the Civil War, ignorance, indifference, and corruption left such a mark on the U. S. Navy that the entire fleet of the 1880s could have been defeated by any single modern warship of the day. It was to take years of often-acrimonious wrangling to re-build the sorry fleet-but despite factional disputes and political bumbling,...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2011. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1848845588, ISBN13: 978-1848845589. Allied leaders and military planners realized early in preparations for the invasion of NW Europe that the massive forces required to defeat Hitler’s armies needed constant resupply of men, equipment, ammunition, fuel and other materials. These would have to come in by sea but it was known...
Zenith Press, 2016. — 243 p. Step aboard the floating cities that patrol international waters, launch aircraft from their decks, and decide the fate of war. Behold the king of naval warfare: the aircraft carrier. Soon after the Wright Brothers' historic flight in 1903, officials explored the airplane's military applications. The seaplane and the flying boat were conceived to...
Routledge, 2018. — 238 p. This book examines the British and German approach to naval air power, describing the creation and development of the two naval air service organizations and doctrine. This work provides new insights as to how two naval air services were influenced by internal and political interventions, and how each was integrated into the organizational structures...
Naval War College Press, 1995. — 160 p. — (Naval War College Historical Monograph). The hull of the old ship of naval history, stripped of her tackle and ornament may well be food for worms, but the subject on which naval historians focus should not be overlooked or lost. It can appear again in a new model, corrected and amended by a new breed of historians, who work with wider...
London: Routledge, 2000. — 428 p. Maritime strategy and naval power in the Mediterranean touches on migration, the environment, technology, economic power, international politics and law, as well as calculations of naval strength and diplomatic manoeuvre. These broad and fundamental themes are explored in this volume.
Naval War College Press, 1991. — 208 p. Сборник (на английском языке) из 16 обзорных статей американских историков на военно-морскую тематику, озвученных в 1990 году на научной конференции в США, посвященной столетию написания классического исторического труда Альфреда Т. Мэхэна "Влияние военно-морской силы на историю. 1660-1783".
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 394 p. A collection of essays on British and American maritime relationships in the 20th century together with details on the British organization of warfare, Anglo-American maritime theory, their rivalries and coalitions and their plans for dealing with a future war in the nuclear age.
The Boydell Press, 2003. — 276 p. This volume is both a restatement of current interpretations of sea power in the middle ages and the Renaissance and a general introduction to naval and maritime history over four and a half centuries. The book offers broad conclusions on the role and characteristics of armed force at sea before 1650, conclusions that exploit the best current...
University of Georgia Press, 2018. — 304 p. Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled...
Brill, 2013. — 312 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 15). In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially depraved robbers and the enemy of all, but Heebøll-Holm shows that piracy was often part of private...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 384 p. Admiral Nelson's most frequent cry was for more frigates. Though not ships of the line these fast and powerful warships were the 'eyes of the fleet'. They enabled admirals to find where the enemy lay and his likely intentions, as well as patrolling vital trade routes and providing information from far-flung colonies. Together with their...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 384 p. Admiral Nelson's most frequent cry was for more frigates. Though not ships of the line these fast and powerful warships were the 'eyes of the fleet'. They enabled admirals to find where the enemy lay and his likely intentions, as well as patrolling vital trade routes and providing information from far-flung colonies. Together with their...
Routledge, 2018. — 278 p. A vital component of the interdependent global economy, maritime transit routes are nowhere more critical than those traversing the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. Previously, areas of the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific have been viewed as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions. In recent years, however, a variety of...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 112 p. The battle of the Atlantic during World War fought by the Allies to maintain lines of communication and vital trade routes for armaments men and basic sustenance could not have been won without the 2710 Liberty ships that were designed and built for those critical one-way voyages to Europe—more than one voyage was considered a bonus. This...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2008. — 244 p. Using official records from the National Archives personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum and other sources, Coastal Convoys 1939 – 1945: The Indestructible Highway describes Britain’s dependence on coastal shipping and the introduction of the convoy system in coastal waters at the outset of the war. It beings to life the hazards of...
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2016. — 59 p. In this report, the CSIS International Security Program analyzes Russian undersea intentions and capabilities in the near to mid-term and the ability of NATO and partner nations to respond effectively. The assessment identifies gaps in current Western organizations, capabilities, and posture and offers...
London: Cassell, 2000. — 224 p. The nineteenth century saw several major innovations in naval warfare. Reliable steam engines made it so that ships no longer depended on the wind and could maneuver more freely. At the same time, new explosive shells were developed, replacing cannonballs, and no wooden ship could withstand them. In response to these shells, a new class of...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 336 p. Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed...
Lancer Publishers, 2012. — 415 p. This volume of the history of the Indian navy covers the period from 1965 to 1975. Several major developments occurred during this decade. The latest design of the Royal Navy’s Leander class frigates started being produced in Mazagon Docks in India with British collaboration. The first submarine arrived in 1968, and by 1975, the Submarine Arm...
Seaforth Publishing, 2009. — 597 p. It is now almost exactly a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning flying at sea made unique demands on men and machines. As warplanes grew larger, faster and heavier, air operations from ships were only possible at all through constant development in technology,...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1913. — 346 p. Don Juan d’Austria. Michael de Ruiter. Jean Bart. Duguay-Trouin. Tordenskjold. Lord George Anson. Richard Graf Howe. Horatio Nelson. Admiral David Glascoe Farragut. Admiral Tegetthoff. Der spanisch-amerikanische Krieg. Der deutsche „Iltis”. Admiral Heihachiro Togo.
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 200 p. A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy is a deliberately compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers, those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and those who educate seafarers and decision-makers. It introduces readers to the main theoretical ideas that shape how statesmen and commanders make and execute maritime strategy in...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 200 p. Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists is a deliberately compact work aimed at both current and aspiring strategists, especially those who concern themselves with strategy at sea, and at those who work for or alongside them. The volume is meant to help strategic leaders know and educate themselves, two of the most important...
Naval War College Press, 2011. - 221 p. - (Newport Papers). This study is about innovations in Carrier Aviation (from 1919 to the Present time) and the spread of those innovations from one navy to the navy of a close ally. The innovations are the angled flight deck; the steam catapult; and the mirror and lighted landing aid that enabled pilots to land jet aircraft on a carrier’s...
Bloomsbury, 2012. — 604 p. This collection of oral histories is the first book to bring together eyewitness accounts from almost every navy that deployed submarines in World War II. With self-deprecating modesty, humor, pride, sadness, and sometimes bitterness, submariners from Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Italy, France, the former USSR and Yugoslavia, Norway,...
Bloomsbury, 2012. — 604 p. This collection of oral histories is the first book to bring together eyewitness accounts from almost every navy that deployed submarines in World War II. With self-deprecating modesty, humor, pride, sadness, and sometimes bitterness, submariners from Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Italy, France, the former USSR and Yugoslavia, Norway,...
Naval War College Press, 2005. - 108 p. - (Newport Papers). It would in any case have been desirable to review the Transatlantic Naval relationship (from 1940) more than a decade after the end of the Cold War, taking account of the interlinked processes of globalization and a changing security agenda. The events of 11 September 2001 and the publication of the U.S. national...
Anness Publishing, 2007. — 100 p. — ISBN: 1844762998. More than 175 archive and museum photographs, illustrations and diagrams bring to life the history, construction, appearance and function of these amazing fighting vessels. An illustrated history of the origins and evolution of early battleships.
Seafort Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. The Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, has established itself as a prime source of information and the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely called 'Nelson's Navy'. Successive editors have widened the scope to include all sailing navies of the period, while a recurring theme is...
Seafort Publishing, 2019. — 255 p. The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. A central theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of 21 October...
Lorenz Books, 2005. — 257 p. Иллюстрированная история линкоров. Рассказ о развитии и боевом пути этого типа военных кораблей, начиная с последней трети XIX века и до войны в Персидском Заливе. Свыше 550 фотографий и рисунков.
Octopus books , 1975. — 150 p. Includes ships from the Nile craft of 3000 B.C. to the modern American aircraft carrier. Emphasizes that the fighting ship has always been not merely a weapon of war but a beautiful and intensely personal creation, possessing a supreme combination of functional and decorative qualities. Includes index.
Canelo, 2022. — 224 p. A compelling history of the greatest ships ever launched. The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships are built, counted, assessed and exercised with the same determination now as at the beginning of the twentieth century, and during the Napoleonic Wars. In this riveting book, leading historian Richard Hough...
Canelo, 2022. — 224 p. A compelling history of the greatest ships ever launched. The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships are built, counted, assessed and exercised with the same determination now as at the beginning of the twentieth century, and during the Napoleonic Wars. In this riveting book, leading historian Richard Hough...
The Overlook Press, 2001. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-585670-40-5. Superb recounting, sometimes in horrific detail, and analysis of the great sea battles. 40 B&W illustrations.
Endeavour Press, 2014. — 320 p. Superb recounting, sometimes in horrific detail, and analysis of the great sea battles. A moving testament to naval battles that changed the world. The major naval powers―Britain, America, Russia, and Japan―have all played a part in the theater of war at sea over the last one hundred years. Naval fighting has always been a rapidly developing...
Canelo, 2021. — 320 p. This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history. 'The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing need for vigilance by day and night.' The war at sea - the longest battle of the Second World War -...
Little, Brown and Company, 1981. — 192 p. Recounts how and why seventeen historic sea battles were fought, and traces the development of naval equipment and strategies (from 31 B.C. to 1945).
Time-Life Books, 1979. — 176 p. The lessons of the Battle of Tsushima during the war between Russia and Japan in 1905, where long-range fire decided the outcome, were not lost on the British Admiralty. The result was the creation of the H.M.S. "Dreadnought," a radical design that heralded the start of an epic naval arms race of battleships between Great Britain and Germany, the...
IBooks, 2012. — 240 p. The first definitive account of one of the most critical naval battles of World War II in the Pacific. Spring 1942: Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America was reeling under the successive Japanese victories at Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines and more. Desperate to stop what was seen as an inexorable Japanese advance toward Australia,...
CNRS, 2013. — 1012 p. Barbaresques, boucaniers, flibustiers, guerres de course, abordages, razzias, butins, partages de prises, chasses au trésor, canonnades... Corsaires et pirates jalonnent de leurs exploits la vie maritime et peuplent notre imaginaire. Voici le premier dictionnaire historique sur ces aventuriers des mers : près de 600 entrées, une œuvre monumentale, les...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 165 p. Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites demonstrates the broad appeal of naval themed commemoration, centering on military aspects from both times of war and peace. Transcending place and time, naval history is shaped into public forums for modern day consumption. These occurrences are not limited to just recent...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2016. — 255 p. In Pursuit of the Essex: A Tale of Heroism and Hubris in the War of 1812 aims to tell the true story. Dedicating equal coverage to the hunter and the hunted without regard for reputation, it immerses the reader in the world of the British and American seamen who struggled for supremacy in the sunset years of the Age of Sail. In compiling...
Naval Institute Press, 1999. — 384 p. This major revision updates Wayne Hughes's 1986 landmark study that is credited with providing decision makers a sound foundation for battle planning and tactical thinking. The book integrates the historical evolution of tactics, analysis, and fleet operations, and today it can serve as a primer for anyone who wants to learn how navies...
Third Edition. — Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 408 p. 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 (factors that have changed throughout history), constants (things that have not changed), and variables (things pertinent to each individual battle). Fleet Tactics and Naval...
Third Edition. — Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 408 p. 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 (factors that have changed throughout history), constants (things that have not changed), and variables (things pertinent to each individual battle). Fleet Tactics and Naval...
Peter Bedrick Books, 1995. — 56 p. Full-color cutaway illustrations, double-page spreads, and an informative text explore what life would have been like aboard a sixteenth-century Spanish galleon, describing how such ships were built and their role in history. As a bonus, you get to see the many types of specialists involved in building and sailing a galleon, how they dressed...
Harper Collins, 2001. — 112 p. This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia begins with the primitive boats of the 18th and 19th centuries, covers the submarines of both World Wars and goes on to the nuclear submarines of today. Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every major type of submarine. Data tables bring together information from submarine museums across the...
3d Edition. — Nudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. — 814 p. This bibliography is a revised edition of the bibliography Submarine Warfare in the 20th & 21st Centuries, 2003, which is in turn a revised and expanded version of Submarine Warfare in the 20th Century, 2002. It is a bibliography listing books, periodical articles, and web sites related to submarine and...
Acies, 2014. — 121 p. Il ruolo delle marine Italiane nelle guerre Napoleoniche (1797-1814) è un aspetto a lungo trascurato dagli storici militari e navali, ma che assume crescente rilievo quanto più viene ricostruito e interpretato. Questo primo volume, riccamente illustrato, riguarda le marine Ligure formalmente incorporate nella marina imperiale.
Acies, 2016. — 155 p. Fu questo episodio, insieme all’elevazione del principe Giuseppe dal ruolo di luogotenente imperiale a re di Napoli, a spingere le coseverso la creazione di un’autonoma marina “napoletana”, ricostituita il24 giugno 1806 in parallelo all’artiglieria e ai primi sei “reggimenti napoletani” dell’ Armée de Naples, poi considerati, per distrazione di Napoleone,...
Società Italiana di Storia Militare, 2014. — 732 p. This is the 2014 Yearbook of the SISM (Italian Society for Military History). The volume dedicated to the memory of the Italian naval historian Alberto Santoni - reports on the studies of naval and maritime history in Italy - from Ancient times to twentieth century. Il volume suddiviso in 7 parti, contenente i contributi di...
HarperCollins , 1996. — 192 p. The greatest arms race in history began in the first years of the 20th century as World Powers expanded their fleets. Germany challenged the Royal Navy's global dominance, the U.S. and Japan established themselves as major naval powers. The revolutionary HMS Dreadnought was succeeded by even larger and more powerful warships that clashed...
Anness Publishing, 2007. — 164 p. This is a complete guide to aircraft carriers, from zeppelin and seaplane carriers to V/STOL and nuclear-powered carriers. It examines the evolution of the aircraft carrier, from the first flights from ships in World War I, developments during the inter-war years and World War II battles such as Pearl Harbor, through to modern carriers used in...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2001. — 240 p. Covering the classic era of sailing ship warfare from the mid-eighteenth century to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail reveals how warships were built, sailed, and fought in the era made popular today by the novels of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. The often dense technical detail of these works...
Arms and Armour Press, 1993. — 264 p. An acknowledged expert on World War II naval matters and the author of twenty-five books, Bernard Ireland examines the thousand-day battle between Allied and Axis forces for domination of the North African shores. His book offers graphic accounts of the stirring action as each side, realizing the consequences of defeat, struggled to control...
London, Cassell, 2002. — 224 p. — (Cassell's History of Warfare). In 1914 international naval power was measured in dreadnought battleships. They were the index of national power like the Nuclear Club of those 21st century countries armed with atomic weapons. Every nation with pretensions to world power joined the Battleship race, from France and Russia to Argentina and Chile....
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. — 140 p. Автор в своей книги описывает основные типы и технические характеристики военных кораблей (по состоянию на 1975 год) для различных флотов мира: США, СССР, Великобритании, Франции, Италии, Индии и многих других государств.
Ian Allan, 1979. — 153 p. This volume deals with those escort warships whose displacement tonnage lies between 1.000 and 5,00 tons, ranging from ships that carry a helicopter flight at the top end to the corvette at the tower.
Simon and Schuster, 1968. — 362 p. In "The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17", historian David Irving gives the reader the tragic tale of an artic convoy of merchantmen carrying war materials to the USSR that was almost completely wiped out by German air and submarine forces. Irving gives the reader the strategic situation wherein the western allies risked much to get badly needed...
André Deutsch, 2015. — 242 p. Written by a former Squadron Leader who took part in the raid and based around interviews with air crew, ground crew, and their German adversaries This is the story of the Lancaster bomber and the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz. Two of the most legendary war machines of World War II, they symbolized their nations' quests for victory in history's...
Amber Books, 2019. — 352 p. Naval warfare - and the weapons used to conduct it – has changed greatly since World War I. Sea battles are no longer dominated by large battleships, but by even larger aircraft carriers. Ships have been relegated to floating missile platforms. Containing full- colour artworks and action photographs, Sea Combat is a comprehensive guide to how the...
Amber Books, 2019. — 352 p. Naval warfare - and the weapons used to conduct it – has changed greatly since World War I. Sea battles are no longer dominated by large battleships, but by even larger aircraft carriers. Ships have been relegated to floating missile platforms. Containing full- colour artworks and action photographs, Sea Combat is a comprehensive guide to how the...
London: Brown Books, 2000. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1-897884-67-2. 300 of the world’s greatest submarines. The submarine has revolutionized naval warfare. These vessels, which wage war beneath the waves, have progressed from the crude, steam-driven craft of the American Civil War to silent nuclear submarines that can cruise for months underwater without surfacing, and which carry...
Routledge, 2018. — 312 p. European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Taking a predominantly continental point of view, the book moves away from the typically British-centric approach taken to naval history as it...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 165 p. David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command.) Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship as a result of a fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag. His first tunnel was discovered before completion. In December 1943 he succeeded in escaping during the...
Reaktion Books, 2012. — 274 p. The escalation of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led commentators to call the area the new Barbary, but the Somali pirates cannot compare to the three hundred years of terror supplied by the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa captured and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 352 p. One hundred years after Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century,historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle. What was in fact a strategic victory stands out starkly against the background of bitter public disappointment in the Royal Navy and decades of divisive acrimony...
Naval Institute Press, 1976. — 280 p. This book covers the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its humble beginnings to major sea power for Asia and Pacific Ocean.
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018. — 637 p. — (Zeitalter der Weltkriege 19). Die Royal Navy und die Kaiserliche Marine erlebten seit dem letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts einen grundlegenden Wandel. Prägten anfangs Segelschiffhybride als Hauptkampfmittel die beiden Flotten, dominierten sie Großkampfschiffe vor Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges. Aber auch U-Boote und Seeflugzeuge...
Outskirts Press, 2016. — 310 p. Charlie Jett succeeds in providing an unclassified account of what it was like to be a nuclear qualified submariner who had the unique experience of building and serving aboard the first operational “Super Nuke” - the most modern fast attack nuclear submarine designed specifically to face the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. He describes the...
Mcfarland, 2011. — 338 p. United States Naval Aviation 1919-1941 - справочник по самолетам морской авиации США 1919-1941 г. Показаны самолеты как палубного так и берегового базирования , а также дирижабли. Флот , традиционно соперничавший с армией , создал свою , морскую авиацию. Как показала дальнейшая практика , этот подход был абсолютно правильным - морские самолеты сильно...
Channel 4 Books, 2002. — 195 p. Before the nuclear bomb, the only weapon that evoked fear and veneration was the battleship. This book unveils the epic saga of power, international politics and one-up-manship that led to the titanic wars of the 20th century. Spanning almost two centuries, from the Battle of Trafalgar to the end of World War II, this book examines the rapid...
MBI Publishing Company, 2000. — 200 p. Before the nuclear bomb, no weapon evoked as much fear as the battleship. Spanning almost two centuries, from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War, this illustrated history explores the rapid evolution of battleship deployment, effectiveness, and design from canvas to steam, timber to steel armor, muzzle-loading cannons to missiles....
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 192 p. A companion to the highly successful Clydebank Battlecruisers, this collection of stunning shipyard photos, most previously unpublished, further showcases the work of a major shipbuilder during the Great War. Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920, the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast...
Wiley, 2008. — 272 p. To the casual observer, World War II was won on land, but the war was actually decided by the Battle of the Atlantic. It was control of the seas that enabled the Allies to fight on land in Europe, and in the air. The victory at sea was a dangerous and deadly six-year struggle to deliver the necessities of life and war from North America to the United...
Dundurn Press, 2011. — 1065 p. From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countries need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navy's first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. — 224 p. The Union inland navy that became the Mississippi Squadron is one of the greatest, yet least studied aspects of the Civil War. Without it, however, the war in the West may not have been won, and the war in the East might have lasted much longer and perhaps ended differently. The men who formed and commanded this large fighting...
Ashgate, 2012. — 593 p. This is the first of three volumes detailing the history of the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers and naval air squadrons, during the Second World War. It deals with the formative period between 1939 and 1941 when the Fleet Air Arm tried to recover from the impact of dual control and economic stringencies during the inter-war period while...
Routledge, 1996. — 254 p. This study of the Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674) sets them in their naval, political and economic contexts. Competing essentially over trade, both governments were crucially influenced by mercantile interests and by the representative institutions that were central to England and the Dutch Republic. Professor Jones compares the...
University Press of the Pacific, 2002. — 108 p. This is the journal of a Civil War Marine Officer, Frank L. Church. A career officer, Church maintained a personal journal through most of the Red River Expedition of 1864. The Red River was a major trouble spot for the Federal river forces in the west, and during the expedition of 1864, Church commanded the Marine guard on the...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 230 p. Written by two World War II veterans who later became well-known war correspondents, this biography records the inspiring life of one of America's great naval heroes. Popularly referred to as "31-Knot" Burke, Admiral Arleigh Burke fought savage battles at sea and won every decoration a grateful nation could bestow, yet his service to his...
Chilton Company, 1959. — 320 p. Called one of the most inspiring stories to come out of World War II when first published in 1959, this epic account of Arleigh Burke's legendary Destroyer Squadron 23 is much more than a story of ships and their tactical deployment. It is a story of men in action--some four thousand of them--and how they lived and fought as a magnificent combat...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 296 p. Between the wars the French produced some of the largest, and certainly the fastest, destroyers in the world. Known as Contre-Torpilleurs, these striking and innovatory super-destroyers form the core of this book, but the more conventional Torpilleurs d'Escadre are also covered. This history combines the technical and service material...
Salamander Books Ltd., 1985. — 160 p. Describes the histories of the modern battleships and cruisers of the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Japan, and other naval countries.
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 320 p. Warships After London examines warship developments in the five major navies during the period 1930-1936. Long-term plans were disrupted, and new construction had to be reviewed in the light of the Treaty of London. The imposition of new quantitative limits for cruisers, destroyers and submarines led to new, often smaller designs, and a need...
Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 254 p. The Washington Treaty of 1922, a watershed event designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of principal warship types, effectively banning the construction of new battleships for a decade. Warships After Washington is unique in its coverage...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 144 p. Beginning with a pictorial essay on battleship construction in the 1930s and 1940s, this book looks at the various design facets of the last great capital ships of the world's navies. Kaplan offers us a glimpse into those massive American and German navy yards and construction facilities that were put to use during this time, acquainting...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 144 p. Beginning with a pictorial essay on battleship construction in the 1930s and 1940s, this book looks at the various design facets of the last great capital ships of the world's navies. Kaplan offers us a glimpse into those massive American and German navy yards and construction facilities that were put to use during this time, acquainting...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 131 p. This new addition to the Images of War series takes as its focus the early Big Gun battleships that saw development and deployment during the First World War. Iconic ships such as HMS Warspite and Malaya feature amidst this pictorial history that is sure to appeal to fans of the series, and naval enthusiasts in particular.
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 131 p. This new addition to the Images of War series takes as its focus the early Big Gun battleships that saw development and deployment during the First World War. Iconic ships such as HMS Warspite and Malaya feature amidst this pictorial history that is sure to appeal to fans of the series, and naval enthusiasts in particular.
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 208 p. Naval aviation arrived early in the last century in the form of balloons and airships employed by the British Royal Navy for reconnaissance, and interest was stirring in naval circles in a greater aeronautical capacity for the service. Britain's tradition of projecting a global reach through her sea power would, in the view of many, be greatly...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 160 p. The first aircraft carriers made their appearance in the early years of World War I. These first flattops were improvised affairs built on hulls that had been laid down with other purposes in mind, and it was not until the 1920s that the first purpose-built carriers were launched, but no-one was as yet clear about the role of the carriers and they...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 240 p. From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century inventors through the nuclear-powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent force and the elite corps of men who fought and often died beneath the waves. Though fully describing the development of the submarine, this book’s main...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 329 p. See the excitement and danger of life on an aircraft carrier like never before. How does it feel to sit aboard a thirty-ton jet and be hurled over a ship’s bow at 140 miles per hour? And how does a deck crew coordinate its efforts to achieve such a feat every thirty seconds? Offering a rare glimpse of life aboard an aircraft carrier, The Bird...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 133 p. During the first stages of the Second World War, all forces were rallied in an attempt to support the Allied effort. With trade and supply routes to Britain suddenly being placed at great risk, a stalwart team of merchant sailors were required to protect vital supplies for the British people, as well as shipping vital army necessities back and forth....
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 192 р. — (Images of War). The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more powerful battleships was among...
C.H. Beck, 2013. — 429 p. U-Boote und Raketen haben im 20. Jahrhundert der klassischen Seeschlacht - Schiff gegen Schiff - ein Ende bereitet. Aber zur Nostalgie besteht angesichts der Blutbäder kein Anlass. Seit der Antike haben Griechen und Römer, Byzanz und Venedig, Spanier und Briten immer größere Ressourcen in die Seekriege gesteckt. Arne Karsten und Olaf Rader beschreiben...
Random House, 2011. — 304 p. In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. He concentrates on four key conflicts: Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He takes us into the very heart of the fighting while providing a remarkable panoramic...
Random House, 2011. — 224 p. John Keegan's new book applies to maritime warfare the technique he put to such dazzling effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. His analysis concentrates on four key battles - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. The result not only illustrates the development of naval warfare through the sailing warship, the...
Zenith Press, 2010. — 286 p. On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall--under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java--split off from the USS Whipple and the tanker Pecos and was never seen again by Allied forces. Despite the later discovery of bodies identified as Edsall crewmembers near a remote...
Zenith Press, 2010. — 286 p. On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall--under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java--split off from the USS Whipple and the tanker Pecos and was never seen again by Allied forces. Despite the later discovery of bodies identified as Edsall crewmembers near a remote...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 240 p. Dixie Kiefer’s reputation for durability began at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he broke an ankle and shattered a kneecap while playing football. After anti-submarine duty in World War I, he became a pioneer of naval aviation and had an elbow shattered by a plane that buzzed him as a joke. Kiefer’s first World War II assignment was executive...
Zenith Press, 2015. — 275 p. In May 1942, the United States' first naval victory against the Japanese in the Coral Sea was marred by the loss of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. Another carrier was nearly ready for launch when the news arrived, so the navy changed her name to Lexington, confusing the Japanese.
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1990. — 50 p. — (Warships Fotofax). World War one proved the military value of the submarine to both sides involved in the conflict. Various operations involving the boats demonstrated their ability to enter and operate effectively in waters that were inaccessible to surface ships. In turn, submarines were also recognised as having the potential...
US Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 257 p. The Royal Navy depends upon its fleet of nuclear submarines in the 1990s but in 1901 the submarine was a largely experimental vessel. The authors, both distinguished experts on military hardware, trace the submarines development to the present day.
London: Chatham Publishing, 1999. — 125 p. — ISBN10: 1861760426, ISBN13: 978-1861760425. The author looks at why major navies engaged in the development of midget submarines during World War II.
Naval Institute Press, 1990. — 161 p. A perceptive assessment of this forerunner to the "hunter-killer" T-class submarines. This book is a rare find in that it gives a 'before', 'during' and 'after', covering the life of this class and it's variants plus the men that went to sea in them. Well travelled, the boats served close to home, in the Mediterranean, the Indian ocean and...
Naval Institute Press, 1996. — 256 p. The fascinating and elite world of secret naval units - the frogmen and commandos who waged war with midget submarines and human torpedoes, their machines and the dramatic actions they fought, in the most impossible of conditions. Paul Kemp's "Underwater Warriors" is a unique book. It is the first book I've seen to cover this subject in the...
Allen Lane, 1976. — 405 p. First published in 1976, this book is the first detailed examination of the history of British sea power since A.T. Mahan's classic The Influence of Sea Power on History, published in 1890. In analyzing the reasons for the rise and fall of Great Britain as a predominant maritime nation in the period from the Tudors to the present day, Professor...
Routledge, 2020. — 278 p. Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges. The book follows the theme of multipolarity by analysing a wide range of historical and geographical case studies, thereby maintaining the focus of...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 544 p. In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall’s beautiful full‑color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War—the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the...
Endeavour Press, 2013. — 82 p. 1755-1815. The great age of sail. Sixty tumultuous, blood-soaked years, during which the tactics and strategy of modern naval war were born and when the British Navy rose to dominate the seas. Looking at the battles, people and ships which defined this revolutionary period in naval warfare, Kernahan shows how and why the 'wooden walls' of Europe...
Goose Lane Editions, 2005. — 105 p. The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint John to the east coast of the United States down to the Virginias, this insightful book offers a glimpse of northeastern North America's naval...
Tietoteos, 1991. — 165 p. This is actually a bilingual book, as the text is written both in Finnish and in English. However, the text is not very detailed, as the main emphasis is on the photographs. There are about 200, mainly of the Finnish Navy, but also about the other vessels in Finnish waters: German, Soviet and Italian. Surprisingly many of them are of submarines,...
Brassey's, 1988. — 142 p. - Naval Vessels, Weapons Systems and Technology Series Vol.6 Discusses the offensive role of modern guns and missiles and the defences used against them.
Routledge, 2012. — 288 p. Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval capabilities in Northwest Asia are instrumental in promoting maritime security interests - helping to build a stable security environment through active participation in regional naval...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the world’s greatest empire on the basis of sea power has led many to assume that the Royal Navy’s place in British life was unchallenged. Yet, as Sarah Kinkel shows, the Navy was the subject of bitter political debate. The rise of British...
Sun Press, 2022. — 320 p. The Naval War in South African Waters, 1939-1945 provides a critical reappraisal of the naval war waged in South African waters during the Second World War. The book investigates this broad topic by focussing on several interrelated aspects such as: the wartime strategic importance of South African waters; the rival Axis and Allied naval strategies in...
The History Press, 2018. — 126 p. On the morning of July 21, 1918--in the final year of the First World War--a new prototype of German submarine surfaced three miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The vessel attacked an unarmed tugboat and its four barges. A handful of the shells fired by the U-boat's deck guns struck Nauset Beach, giving the modest town of Orleans...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 265 p. Provisioning the fleet, and the army overseas, during the French Wars of 1793-1815 was a major undertaking. This book explains how the Victualling Board in London handled this enormous task, focusing in particular on contractors - that is the merchants and brokers, who provided a vast range of commodities including flour and biscuit, salt beef and...
Penguin, 2006. — 873 p. The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Admiral Horatio Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in battle, and also explores his strategic...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 208 p. Thanks to the PBY's daring pilots and their effective tactics, the slow outdated Catalina patrol bombers became the scourge of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific during World War II. Painted black and hunting at night, the Black Cats, as they were called, are credited with sinking or disabling hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo...
Praeger, 2001. — 182 p. The naval side of the First World War in the Adriatic provides a classic case study in narrow sea warfare. This is the story of the Austro-Hungarian KuK Navy's contribution to the Central Powers' considerable effort in the region. This finely balanced, well-handled navy successfully helped to defend Austria's Adriatic base of power--the...
Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1973. — 203 p. История создания и развития Польского флота на Балтике с 1597 по 1632 годы. Особое внимание автор уделяет боевым действиям польского и шведского флотов у Риги и в морском сражении у Оливы (1627).
Bellona, 2002. — 165 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Oliwa, also Battle of Oliva or Battle of Gdańsk Roadstead, was a naval confrontation that took place on 28 November 1627 during the Polish–Swedish War slightly north of the port of Danzig (Gdańsk) near the village of Oliva (Oliwa). It was the largest naval battle fought by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy , and...
Aurum Press, 2016. — 368 p. Using a narrative approach, Jutland 1916 - Twelve Hours that Decided the Great War tells the story of the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval clash of the First World War. Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts, some of which were previously unknown, it weaves a highly original narrative, which intertwines original research, into a fast-paced...
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 285 p. The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin and C.S. Forester's Hornblower novels. In 1797 the 32-gun Royal Navy frigate HMS Hermione was serving in the Caribbean, at the forefront of Britain's bitter sea war against Spain and Revolutionary France. Its...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 341 p. When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, or even fictional pirates such as Long John Silver, Captain Hook and Captain Jack Sparrow. These historical characters all hailed from one period. Known as "The Golden Age of Piracy", this period only lasted around a quarter of a century - from around 1700 until 1725....
Lyons Press, 2011. — 337 p. Angus Konstam sets sail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction. Pirates takes us into the depths of the pirate's dark world, examining the many colorful characters from Cretans and Vikings to French corsairs and the British rogues of the golden age of piracy, such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd and even...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 240 p. In their heyday, the sight of a pirate ship on the horizon would strike terror into the hearts of their intended victims. The colorful yet fearsome reputation of the pirate still resonates today and the sight of the skull and crossbones retains its thrilling power. The lives of the most famous of their brethren have been immortalized, initially in...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 202 p. Ships have been part of military campaigns since the Ancient world, and this expertly illustrated and detailed Spotters Guide offers a look at the 40 most iconic and recognizable ships throughout history. From the Viking longship through to the powerful modern aircraft carriers, and from the ironclads of the American Civil War to the awesome...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 202 p. Ships have been part of military campaigns since the Ancient world, and this expertly illustrated and detailed Spotters Guide offers a look at the 40 most iconic and recognizable ships throughout history. From the Viking longship through to the powerful modern aircraft carriers, and from the ironclads of the American Civil War to the awesome...
Wiley, 2008. — 352 p. Savor the story of the ultimate warship in Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship, which chronicles the history of Sovereign of the Seas, an immensely powerful floating fortress. You will enjoy this gripping tale of an arms race that created and ruined empires, changed the map of the world, and led Europe out of the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 327 p. Conflict at sea has been transformed by disruptive technologies, creating a dynamic and distributed operational environment that extends from the oceans to encompass warfare on land, in the air, outer space, and cyberspace. This raises choice of law decisions that include the law of naval warfare and the law of armed conflict, neutrality...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 485 p. In Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea: Expeditionary Operations in World Politics, Commander James Kraska analyzes the evolving rules governing freedom of the seas and their impact on expeditionary operations in the littoral, near-shore coastal zone. Coastal state practice and international law are developing in ways that restrict...
Routledge, 2016. — 423 p. This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world’s premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and security, this handbook covers naval security issues in diverse regions of the world, from the Indian...
PM Press, 2010. — 288 p. Dissecting the conflicting views of the golden age of pirates—as romanticized villains on one hand and genuine social rebels on the other—this fascinating chronicle explores the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by examining a wide range of ethnographical, sociological, and philosophical standards. The meanings of race,...
Pocket Books, 1994. — 372 p. The first account of one of the most tragic stories and cover-ups in the history of the U.S. Navy recounts the sinking of the USS Juneau in 1942, in which scores of survivors died needlessly. The Cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52) was a United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 13 November 1942. In total, 687...
Pub Libre, 1974. — 264 p. Este libro relata los hechos y los combates de mayor relieve que tuvieron lugar en el Atlántico, sobre todo entre los buques de superficie, durante la segunda guerra mundial (1939-1945). Con su característica amenidad y un conocimiento exhaustivo de la historia naval y política de la época, Luis de la Sierra va contando operaciones de gran estilo y...
Pub Libre, 1979. — 640 p. Desde que en diciembre de 1941 la escuadra y la aviación japonesas atacaran a una gran concentración de buques norteamericanos en Pearl Harbor, se inició una de las batallas aeronavales más largas y cruentas de la Historia, de la que no encontramos ningún precedente. El océano Pacífico tiene una extensión superior a todos los demás océanos y mares...
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2015. — 552 p. La épica historia de un náufragode la Armada Invencible (1588). A finales del siglo XVI España emprende una ambiciosacampaña naval contra Inglaterra. Es un momento crítico, cuando el poderíoimperial hispano empieza a declinar, los problemas en Flandes se multiplican ypiratas ingleses como Francis Drake atacan Cádiz y...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 427 p. Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812--winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal--turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "sea powers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to...
London: Cassell, 2000. — 224 p. — (Cassell History of Warfare). Our fascination with the drama of war at sea is as strong today as it was in the heyday of the sailing ship.This book, written by one of the world's foremost authors on naval warfare, describes the dramatic battles of an age when sail was supreme. Andrew Lambert's comprehensive history examines key naval conflicts...
Conway Maritime Press, 1984. — 168 p. Andrew Lambert here explores the short period of time when steam powered wooden battleships were commissioned by the RN. He has a clear thesis and it is that for a certain period of time the pace of technology made such warships a sensible and prudent investment. The factor that he mentions that seems most persuasive to me is the...
Conway Maritime Press, 1987. — 200 p. Launched in 1860, Warrior was the first ever iron-hulled, sea-going armoured ship, and for a number of years was the most powerful warship in the world. By a fluke of history the ship also survived to be the last of the broadside ironclads, and was rescued from an obscure existence as a refuelling hulk in West Wales to become the subject of...
WR Press, 1999. — 98 p. The Flower-class corvette was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II, specifically with the Allied navies as anti-submarine convoy escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy ships of this class were named after flowers, hence the name of the class. The majority served during World War II with the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal...
University of South Carolina Press, 2002. — 447 p. For most of the twentieth century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a prodigious quantity of primary sources, Nicholas A. Lambert concludes that Admiralty decision-making was in fact driven by factors unrelated to the German building program. Winner of...
Routledge, 1984. — 465 p. When originally published in 1984, and based on archival research, this book was the first fully documented discussion of German naval strategy and planning from 1862-1914 against France, Russia, Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The book is a complete study of the relationship of the navy to Prusso-German power politics both in terms of the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 64 p. Poseidon's Warriors is a set of wargaming rules for large-scale naval actions between fleets of Classical galleys, from the Greek and Persian clash at the Battle of Salamis, to the Battle of Actium that decided the fate of Rome. With so many of these battles taking place around islands or in narrow channels and shallow waters, sneaky tactics...
Dutton, 2020. — 368 p. How a determined scientist cracked the case of the first successful--and disastrous--submarine attack. On the night of February 17, 1864, the tiny Confederate submarine HL Hunley made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours, the Union ship's stern was blown open in a spray of wood planks. The explosion...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 208 p. At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser – ‘I think it is a pocket battleship.’ It was. The Deutschland-class heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, marauder of the South Atlantic shipping, had sailed into a trap....
Frontline Books, 2016. — 215 p. At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser – ‘I think it is a pocket battleship.’ It was. The Deutschland-class heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, marauder of the South Atlantic shipping, had sailed into a trap....
Hackett Publishing Company, 2019. — 200 p. This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of sources, including the authors' own archival research and translations, these carefully...
Black Library Press, 2009. — 145 p. It was a battle that captured the hearts of a nation, and changed the balance of naval power for a hundred years to come. It was a battle that made men into heroes, and turned a hero into a legend. Warhammer Historical is proud to present Trafalgar, a naval wargame, set in the Age of Sail. Within this book you will find all the rules, history...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 353 p. During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. Lacking effective naval...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner R.M.S. Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England. This act of war had a terrible toll—of the 1,962 passengers and crew, 1,191 lost their lives, many of them women and children. One of the passengers on...
Seaforth Publishing, 2009. — 129 p. The landing craft assault or LCA was one of the unsung heroes of the Second World War. It took part in practically every amphibious operation from Norway to Normandy and landed around 400,000 men in action conditions, plus many more in training. It was the only serviceable British landing craft at the beginning of the War, and it remained in...
Conway Maritime Press, 2012. — 347 p. Re-issued in trade paperback format Brian Laverys narrative explores the navy's rise over four centuries a key factor in propelling Britain to its status as the most powerful nation on earth, and assesses the turning point of Jutland and the First World War. He creates a compelling read that is every bit as engaging as the TV series itself.
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 272 p. The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality – that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a...
Naval Institute Press, 2003. — 182 p. In this new work, respected naval historian Lavery explores the historical framework of the O'Brian novels by examining the facts behind the grand narrative and putting the key episodes in context while detailing naval life in the era of Nelson and Napoleon. 100+ illustrations.
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 256 p. This epic World War II saga follows the USS Squalus and Sculpin as they play out their dramatic destinies in the Pacific. The author, a seasoned journalist, re-creates their entire perilous journey. The Squalus sank during a test dive in 1939, but thirty-three trapped crewmen were saved thanks to the revolutionary use of the McCann diving...
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. — 640 p. — ISBN: 0-7867-1238-4. In the words of those who fought them, here are historic sea battles, ranging from broad views of the whole arena of engagement as seen by those in command, to the personal and hardhitting insights of non-commissioned officers and men in the thick of it. From the Battle of Salamis, recounted by the great...
Naval Institute Press, 1996. — 224 p. Overviews all military aspects of naval aviation in World War I, focusing on aviation's influence on naval operations and strategy and shedding new light on little-known aspects of the naval war in the air such as the operations of the Imperial Russian Navy's seaplane-carrier squadron in the Black Sea, and the Royal Navy's use of...
Omega, 1995. — 162 p. Эта монография является первой в серии, посвященной линейным кораблям. Особый интерес заслуживает то обстоятельство, что корабль, который автор выбрал для своей монографии - 64-х пушечный Le Fleuron (Цветок) - по записям Блэйза Оливера (Blaise Ollivier) был первым современным французским кораблем. Кроме того, он представляет чистый пример французской...
Routledge, 2014. — 192 p. This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is an activity no longer confined to just navies, but in the modern era is pursued be coast guards,...
Casemate Publishers, 2011. — 256 p. Robert Le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in the North Atlantic and Arctic seas and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard HMS Dasher and he was lucky to be ashore when...
Book Club Edition, | 1976. - 256 pages. ISBN: 0356080765 Incomplete! Only first 128 pages! The half-century spanned by the ships in this book saw the beginning of an ever quickening tempo in the design, construction, propulsion, armament and protection of fighting ships, which continues today in this age of gas turbines and rocket missiles. Now navies are accustomed to radical...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 221 p. Manila and Santiago tells the history of the U.S. Navy's operations in the Spanish War of 1898. This was America's first two-ocean war, in which the decisive battles at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba were separated by two months and ten thousand miles. Our new steel navy came of age during this quick, modern little war. The battles were...
Routledge, 2012. — 239 p. — (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series). Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2018. — 368 p. When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and had embarked on a massive program to gain naval preeminence. But Reagan already had a plan to end the Cold War without armed conflict. Reagan led a bipartisan...
Harper Collins, 2020. — 416 p. At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center frantically typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on the American navy stationed in Hawaii. In a little over two hours, the Japanese killed more than 2,400 Americans and...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 272 p. A global account of pirates and the modus operandi from the middle ages to the present day. In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as well as the dramatic rise of modern-day piracy around Somalia and the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 253 p. When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore...
Editorial Bruguera, 1972. — 160 p. Amena guia ilustrada con dibujos y perfiles de buques donde se analiza la evolución de la Marina de guerra. Ilustrado por David A. Warner y Niguel W. Hearn. Indice. Barcos de guerra. Obras de divulgación.
Doubleday, 1967. — 162 p. These volumes cover all surface vessels of the German Navy in WWII - this includes many categories of ships: battleships, battlecruisers, aircraft cruisers, cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, sloops, minesweepers, minelayers and more auxiliary categories of boats. As the books explain, the German plans for a surface fleet were not fully implemented....
Indiana University Press, 1985. — 208 p. This first general survey of European naval and maritime history for the period from A.D. 300 to 1500 focuses on Western Europe, including the Baltic, North Sea, and Atlantic traditions, and on the Mediterranean, particularly Byzantine and Moslem naval history. The authors survey a number of interconnected areas: the use of seapower in...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 389 p. On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk. War had already come to northern Australia, and now the southern cities were made bitterly...
Miloske Bogtrykkeri, 1896. — 344 p. Introduction of absolute monarchy in 1660 by Frederik III brought with it the gradual rebuilding of the navy. It had been severely neglected since Christian IV's death in 1648. The Admiralty residence, however, had been established in 1655. It was clear, that Denmark-Norway's security was dependent on a strong navy. Particularly since the...
Praeger, 2001. — 248 p. Lindberg and Todd methodically show how geography has shaped the strategy, tactics, and tools of naval warfare. Alfred T. Mahan was perhaps the first naval professional to recognize and acknowledge fully the influence of geography on navies and naval warfare. Many of his principles of seapower were inherently geographical and influenced both what kind of...
Routledge, 2016. — 194 p. — (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History). This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine piracy in Southeast Asia and the regional and international responses to this threat. During the piracy boom of the early to mid-2000s, the issue of piracy in Southeast Asia received substantial academic attention. Recent...
Fair Winds Press, 2010. — 272 р. Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages. Readers...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 388 p. For thousands of years, pirates have terrorized the ocean voyager and the coastal inhabitant, plundered ship and shore, and wrought havoc on the lives and livelihoods of rich and poor alike. Around these desperate men has grown a body of myths and legends—fascinating tales that today strongly influence our notions of pirates and piracy. Most...
Publisher info not specified, 2015 — 280 p. This is Part 2 of a rather lengthy presentation that is my attempt to tell a complex story, starting from the early origins of the U.S. Navy’s interest in marine nuclear propulsion in 1939, resetting the clock on 17 January 1955 with the world’s first “underway on nuclear power” by the USS Nautilus, and then tracing the development...
Publisher info not specified, 2015 — 235 p. This is Part 3 of a rather lengthy presentation that is my attempt to tell a complex story, starting from the early origins of the U.S. Navy’s interest in marine nuclear propulsion in 1939, resetting the clock on 17 January 1955 with the world’s first “underway on nuclear power” by the USS Nautilus, and then tracing the development...
Publisher info not specified, 2015 — 190 p. This is Part 4 of a rather lengthy presentation that is my attempt to tell a complex story, starting from the early origins of the U.S. Navy’s interest in marine nuclear propulsion in 1939, resetting the clock on 17 January 1955 with the world’s first “underway on nuclear power” by the USS Nautilus, and then tracing the development...
Publisher info not specified, 2015. — 65 p. This is Part 5 of a rather lengthy presentation that is my attempt to tell a complex story, starting from the early origins of the U.S. Navy’s interest in marine nuclear propulsion in 1939, resetting the clock on 17 January 1955 with the world’s first “underway on nuclear power” by the USS Nautilus, and then tracing the development...
Publisher info not specified, 2015. — 85 p. This rather lengthy presentation is my attempt to tell a complex story, starting from the early origins of the U.S. Navy’s interest in marine nuclear propulsion in 1939, resetting the clock on 17 January 1955 with the world’s first “underway on nuclear power” by the USS Nautilus, and then tracing the development and exploitation of...
Open Road, 1957. — 237 p. There may not be a better book on what happened at Pearl Harbor than Day of Infamy--and it's not as if the Pearl Harbor story has lacked chroniclers. Walter Lord is best known for A Night to Remember, his book on the voyage of the Titanic. Day of Infamy deserves to stand beside that classic as a gripping narrative, and the subject matter, of course, is...
Stackpole Books, 1995. — 184 p. On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission. This all-but-forgotten operation, the authors argue, deserves historical recognition as an inspirational precedent for the Japanese raid on...
Ebury Publishing, 2011. — 264 p. On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen -- an extraordinary combination of...
Chatham Publishing, 2004. — 224 p. The prevailing image of food at sea in the age of sail features rotting meat and weevily biscuits, but this highly original book proves beyond doubt that this was never the norm. Building on much recent research Janet Macdonald shows how the sailor's official diet was better than he was likely to enjoy ashore, and of ample calorific value for...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 260 p. Studies of the "Age of Fighting Sail" have tended to focus on the British or American navies, or sometimes on those of France or Spain. However, there were also at this time very significant navies built by the Islamic powers: the North African Barbary states, whose ships, allegedly pirates, plagued Mediterranean shipping and raided even as far as...
Boydell Press, 2014. — 224 p. Most books on the colonisation of India view the subject in Eurocentric imperial terms, focusing on the ways in which European powers competed with each other on land and at sea and defeated Indian states on land, and viewing Indian states as having little interest in naval matters. This book, in contrast, reveals that there was substantial naval...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 232 p. Examines Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia and the often underappreciated prowess of the Russian navy. Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia continued throughout the eighteenth century, with Britain providing huge assistance to the growth of Russia's navy, and Russia making an essential but often overlooked contribution to...
Pen and Sword Books, 2006. — 208 p. The Battle of the Atlantic was an unremitting assault by enemy boats and aircraft against Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great Britain—and the vigilant defense against them made by the Royal Navy and other allied forces. Captain Donald Macintyre—a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross who participated in the fighting,...
Schiffer Military History, 2005. — 312 p. he Air Branch of the Royal Navy that was to carve its name into maritime history as the Fleet Air Arm faced an orphan existence up to 1937 when the Admiralty, having handed over control in 1918 to the RAF, resumed charge of its aviators. The Force was poorly equipped and dangerously short of qualified personnel with which to effectively...
Collins, 1981. — 248 p. Established following the introduction of the Naval Service Act by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Naval Service of Canada (NSC) was intended as a distinct naval force for Canada, that, should the need arise, could be placed under British control. The bill received royal assent on 4 May 1910. Initially equipped with two former Royal Navy vessels,...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2013. — 224 р. When Admiral Mahan passed away in 1914, his ideas and thoughts lived on in his writings, which spanned the naval strategy of his own times and the lessons learnt from history. They are still read today at the modern naval academies and the ideas permeate the teachings at Annapolis. A flag officer in the U.S. Navy who fought during the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 271 p. This book focuses on the Royal Navy's response to the rise of the German navy under Hitler within the broad context of the ongoing debate about Britain's policy of appeasement. It combines a narrative of diplomatic events and Whitehall policy-making with the thematic analysis of naval intelligence and war planning. Drawing on the wide range of...
Dorling Kindersley, 2003. — 72 p. — (DK Eyewitness.) — ISBN 9780789495013. Discover the secret underwater world of submarines and submersibles. A submarine is an underwater craft whose invention revolutionized war at sea and which has enabled humans to explore the hidden world beneath the ocean surface. Submarines range in size from a small car to giant vessels twice the size...
Oxford University Press, 1961. — 464 p. First published in 1961, Arthur Marder’s “From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow” set the standard on scholarship of the Royal Navy in the First World War era for over a generation. To this day, no commentary on the period can be presented without noting its relationship to Marder and his classic multi-volume work. Part one of volume one...
Oxford University Press, 1965. — 482 p. This is volume 2 in a 5-volume series. Professor Marder's first volume, 'The Road to War,' dealt with the years when Fisher prepared the Navy for the great conflict which he foresaw; with this second volume comes the time of testing. There were initial set-backs: the escape of the German ship 'Goeben,' the defeat at Coronel, the...
Oxford University Press, 1965. — 335 p. The five volumes were subtitled The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919 and they are still, despite recent major contributions from Robert Massie and Andrew Gordan, regarded by many as the definitive history of naval events leading up to and including the Great War. The third volume deals with the controversial clash between the...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 380 p. Arthur Marder's five-volume history From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow is one of the finest contributions to naval history, chronicling the dramatic conflicts of the First World War with an “unrivalled mastery of sources” and “a gift of simple narrative. The third volume presents an in-depth analysis of the clash between the German High Seas fleet...
Oxford University Press, 1968. — 380 p. The five volumes were subtitled The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919 and they are still, despite recent major contributions from Robert Massie and Andrew Gordan, regarded by many as the definitive history of naval events leading up to and including the Great War. The fourth volume covers the period from Jellicoe's arrival at the...
Oxford University Press, 1970. — 429 p. Arthur J. Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow is the most internationally respected multi-volume history of the Royal Navy in the Great War. Volume 5 covers the years 1918 - 1919, the successful introduction of the convoy system, the American navy's entry to the sea war, Zeebrugge and the surrender of the German Fleet. It also...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 320 p. Continuing on from Arthur Marder's previous book, From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in Peace, 1915-1940 this next volume investigates the Allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from the Vichy Government. A pet operation of Prime...
Octagon Books, 1976. — 580 p. In 1940, Arthur J Marder published this study of the development of British seapower from 1880 to 1905. He later continued a further series of books ending at the surrender of the High Seas fleet at Scapa Flow in 1918. In this volume Marder established the format and scholarly approach that he continued later. What Marder did was look at the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2022. — 168 p. The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theater of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott’s highly illustrated two-volume account of the struggle sets naval actions in the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2022. — 168 p. The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theater of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott’s highly illustrated two-volume account of the struggle sets naval actions in the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2005. — 318 p. The Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in World War II. In particular, they laid down design parameters and tonnage limitations for each class of warship, including battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers. With one or...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 162 p. This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies, this research emphasizes the role of logistics, especially afloat support logistics and the...
Pen and Sword Maritime Books, 2012. — 184 p. The Women’s Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a man for sea service. At the peak there was over 5,000 women serving in Britain and overseas, but efforts to maintain the service in peace time were unsuccessful, and it was to be 1939, when the Second World War threatened, before the...
Ballantine Books, 2004. — 896 p. In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant...
Independent Publishers, 2018. — 92 p. Il convoglio PQ 18 era un convoglio artico di quaranta mercantili alleati dalla Scozia e dall'Islanda ad Arkhangelsk in Unione Sovietica nella guerra contro la Germania nazista . Il convoglio partì da Loch Ewe , in Scozia, il 2 settembre 1942, si incontrò con altre navi e scorte in Islanda e arrivò ad Arkhangelsk il 21 settembre. Un numero...
Bollettino d'Archivio dell'uffico Storico Marina Militare, 2015. — 146 p. La battaglia del convoglio Duisburg fu combattuta il 9 novembre 1941, durante la seconda guerra mondiale, nel mar Mediterraneo a nord del golfo della Sirte e a occidente di Malta. Un convoglio mercantile italiano, scortato da alcune navi da guerra della Regia Marina e diretto in Libia per rifornire le...
Bollettino d'Archivio dell'uffico Storico Marina Militare, 2019. — 139 p. La battaglia di capo Bon fu un rapido scontro navale della seconda guerra mondiale avvenuto al largo di capo Bon, Tunisia la notte fra il 12 e 13 dicembre del 1941 tra una formazione di due incrociatori leggeri italiani, scortati dalla torpediniera Cigno e impegnati in un'urgente missione di rifornimento,...
Luca Cristini Editore, 2019. — 229 p. La notte tra l’11 e il 12 novembre del 1940 la Squadra Navale italiana, trovandosi in gran parte riunita nel grande porto di Taranto perché l’indomani sarebbe dovuta salpare per effettuare un bombardamento navale contro la base britannica di Suda (Creta), fu attaccata in modo coordinato da aerosiluranti e bombardieri Swordfish decollati...
Luca Cristini Editore, 2019. — 241 p. La notte del 8-9 novembre 1941 si verificò quella che, assieme alla Battaglia di Capo Matapan, fu la maggiore sconfitta della Marina italiana nella Seconda Guerra mondiale. Ciò avvenne a sud delle coste meridionali della Calabria quando, un convoglio di sette navi mercantili, denominato “Beta” (o “Duisburg”), che era scortato da due...
RiStampa Edizioni, 2019. — 154 p. Malta è sempre in cima ai pensieri e alle preoccupazioni di Churchill che considera la sicurezza dell’isola un elemento fondamentale della strategia inglese nel Mediterraneo. Dopo il sostanziale fallimento, in giugno, delle operazioni “Harpoon” e “Vigorous” per rifornire l’isola, ai primi di agosto il governo inglese decide di inviare a Malta...
Bollettino d'Archivio dell'uffico Storico Marina Militare, 2019. — 128 p. Il saggio tratta della pianificazione della Direttiva Navale n. 7, compilata concordemente, su direttiva del Comando Supremo italiano, dagli Alti Comandi della Regia Marina (Supermarina) e della Regia Aeronautica (Superaereo), con lo scopo di affrontare in un combattimento decisivo la Forza H di...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 255 p. From the heart-rending account of the sinking of the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 — the worst maritime disaster in world history — through to a variety of other brutal actions carried out by numerous submarine commanders, including the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur in 1943, this book comes from the deep shadows of a tragic...
Turner, 1959. — 392 p. La Armada Invencible (1588) trata un episodio histórico decisivo: la fracasada invansión de Inglaterra dirigida por Felipe II. Este acontecimiento se consideró durante décadas el inicio de la decadencia de la hegemonía hispana, sin embargo esta obra contribuyó a que esta batalla se valorase en su justa medida con menor carga emotions.
Yale University Press, 2019. — 633 p. A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding. Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific....
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War. For years the myriad factors contributing to the loss of many of the ships remained a mystery, subject only to speculation and theory. In this book, marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 274 p. — (Osprey General Military) The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War. For years the myriad factors contributing to the loss of many of the ships remained a mystery, subject only to speculation and theory. In this book, marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 163 p. Captain Tony McCrum's naval career started in 1932. He survived the sinking of HMS Skipjack at Dunkirk and went on to serve on minesweepers and at sea during the landings at Salerno. His wartime experiences were recently published as Sunk by Stukas. This book covers the second part of his naval career between 1945 and 1963. Having arrived back in...
Warners Group Publications, 2023. — 132 p. Now, a new 132 page bookazine, Battleships of WWII, brings their story to life with 85 battleships from seven nations. Here is your guide to why they were built, how they were armoured and fitted out with equipment and weapons, and what action they saw in WWII, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Franklin Watts, 1984. — 120 p. Details the World War II greatest battles during 1942 between the American's and the Japanese Navies at the Pacific islands of Midway and Guadalcanal.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 630 p. It is often said «The first casualty of war is the truth» and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships, which ran the gauntlet of mined waters...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 178 p. The unrestricted U-Boat war threatened the very survival of Britain, whose reliance on imported food and war materials was her Achilles' Heel. A significant element of the German submarine fleet operated from the occupied Belgian ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend. After careful planning the Royal Navy launched audacious attacks on these two ports on St...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2004. — 224 p. Born in 1762, William Hargood's naval career spanned over 30 years, as he rose from humble midshipman to the captain of one of the most powerful warships of the day at Trafalgar. He campaigned all over the known world: the Americas, West Indies, throughout the Mediterranean. Britain was hardly ever at peace during those troubled times and...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 223 p. The mission of the U.S. Navy's fast attack submarines during the Cold War was a closely guarded secret for many years, but this look back at the period and the part played by those submarines in winning the war gives readers a close-up view of life in one of those subs, USS Sturgeon (SSN 637). McHale's memoir covers the years from 1967 to...
Sapere Books, 2024. — 352 p. Twenty-six epic sea battles fought around the world are dramatically described with a wealth of expert technical detail and commentary. Here are wartime campaigns, amphibious operations, formidable captains and blow-by-blow accounts of daring missions, spanning 350 years of naval history. From the South Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, the Pacific to...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. — 294 p. In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-over of the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Among them was the frigate Medusa. A month after it set sail, she shank miles off of Africa’s west coast, leaving the passengers to flee on lifeboats and a raft cobbled together from parts of the sinking ship. After a failed attempt by...
University Alabama Press, 2008. — 242 p. Unknown Waters tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who made the first survey of an extremely important and remote region of the Arctic Ocean. The unpredictability of deep-draft sea ice, shallow water, and possible Soviet discovery, all played a dramatic part in this...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 840 p. This is the first study in depth of the Royal Navy's vital, but largely ignored small craft. In the age of sail they were built in huge numbers and in far greater variety than the more regulated major warships, so they present a particular challenge to any historian attempting a coherent design history. However, for the first time this book...
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, 1941. — 135 p. Cover the warships used by the different national naval forces, and provide data on their characteristics. Illustrations comprise photographs of typical ships of the principal navies.
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 180 p. A view into the world of the intrepid but often forgotten seamen who helped the Allies win WWII. They may not have worn gold braid or medals, but the Allied Merchant Navies in World War II provided a vital service to their countries’ war efforts. Hundreds of thousands of British and American sailors—some as young as fourteen—faced...
Casemate Publishers, 2022. — 224 p. — (Casemate Illustrated Special). A heavily illustrated account of the evolution, design and deployment of dreadnought battleships. When HMS Dreadnought was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1906 this revolutionary new class of big-gun iron-clad warship immediately changed the face of naval warfare, rendering all other battleships worldwide...
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 288 p. Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of...
McFarland and Company, 2013. — 228 p. Fresh from success in sinking the ship Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Naval Captain William Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumee in Hong Kong to aid the restoration of America's naval power in Asia. By linking such aims to British policy, and by courting Chinese and Japanese officials, he succeeded in...
Zenith Press, 2002. — 232 p. Tieing into the sixtieth anniversary of the naval battle between the Bismarck and the HMS Hood, this book will be a mixture of history and adventure and will include interviews with survivors of both ships. It will be illustrated throughout with state-of-the-art underwater photography of the wrecks, computer graphics and sonar scans as well as...
Carlo Delfino, 2000. — 335 p. L'opera si propone come un approccio di sintesi al panorama culturale della marineria cartaginese e punica in generale, nella consapevolezza di potersi soltanto affacciare su una materia così ampia e complessa. La ricerca, condotta con attenzione e con rigore metodologico, prospetta numerose e anche nuove risultanze storiche. La completa una...
Naval Historical Center, 1991. — 232 p. Latest update on the history of mine countermeasures in the US Navy. Covers from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm. Well written by an author with access to USN sources for her information.
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 264 p. This is a ground-breaking study in Anglo-French naval relations after 1919 as they related to European diplomatic currents between the two World Wars, and to the balance of global naval power before World War II until the summer of 1940. The regional focus is on the Mediterranean, the only area where British and French naval power could be...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 321 p. A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II from retired Rear Admiral of U.S. Navy.
Routledge, 1998. — 210 p. Rear Admiral Raja Menon contends that nations embroiled in Continental Wars have historically had poor maritime strategies. He develops the argument that navies that have been involved in such wars have made poor contributions to political objectives, and outlines future strategies.
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 368 p. Patrol Wing Ten was the only U.S. Navy aviation unit to fight the Japanese in the early weeks of World War II, and the daring exploits of its PBY scout-plane pilots offer a dramatic tale of heroism, duty, and controversy. Poorly equipped and dead tired from flying back-to-back patrols with no fighter cover, the men lost sixty-six percent of...
Quill, 1986. — 378 p. Winston Churchill wrote, "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. In March 1943, the Germans were coming close to doing just that - sinking ninety-seven Allied merchant ships in twenty days,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010. — 304 p. La aventura de los saqueadores del mar que con sus naves bien armadas mataban, robaban, y secuestraban en busca de tesoros. La piratería es tan antigua como el comercio marino, y no ha habido pueblo en la historia que no la haya sufrido o la haya practicado. Desde los fenicios con sus barcos trirremes hasta las modernas lanchas motoras que...
Zenith Press, 2001. — 480 р. Covering every major warship type from the American ironclads of the 1860s through today's super-sophisticated aircraft carriers, this fact-filled directory describes more than 200 fighting vessels, providing technical specifications along with development and service histories. Intricately detailed full-color drawings vividly bring the warships to...
Combined Books, 1995. — 252 p. Unknown to the general public, detailed logbooks of most Civil War vessels have survived and now lie in the National Archives. Using research from these and other official records, the author has written detailed accounts of the most important events in Civil War maritime history, including battles, amphibious assaults, shipwrecks, court-martials,...
Naval Institute Press, 1985. — 320 p. World War II adventure story of epic proportions, this book tells the heroic tale of a dedicated band of men who refused to let their crippled ship sink to the bottom of the Pacific in late 1944. Based on over seventy eyewitness accounts and hundreds of official documents and personal papers, it records in rich detail the USS Houston's...
The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1980. — 242 p. This work traces the rise of carrier-based naval air forces from defensive escort duty in the North Atlantic to the climactic duels in the Pacific that forever changed the nature of sea power during World War II.
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 332 p. — Third Edition. Since 1977 Nathan Miller's concise history of the U.S. Navy has been the standard historical survey read by plebes at the U.S. Naval Academy. Now this highly readable account of the navy, its men and women, ships and aircraft, wars and politics, and the role all played in the creation and protection of the United States has...
Princeton University Press, 1988. — 400 p. These essays from the journal International Security cover aspects of past and present naval technologies and explore current disputes over American naval doctrine. Four of the contributions--those by Linton Brooks, John Mearsheimer, Barry Posen, and Joshua Epstein--describe the case for and against the Reagan administration's...
The History Press, 2011. — 288 p. A major reinterpretation of the most important military campaign of World War II. World War II was only a few hours old when the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of World War II and the most complex submarine war in history, began with the sinking of the unarmed passenger liner Athenia by the German submarine U30. Based on the...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 504 p. From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy – now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary – has been an expression of Canadian nationhood and a catalyst in...
Department of the Navy Press, 2015. — 108 p. Covers the Navy intelligence establishments support to the war effort in Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1975. It describes the contribution of naval intelligence to key strategic, operational, and tactical aspects of the war including the involvement of intelligence in the seminal Tonkin Gulf Crisis of 1964 and the Rolling Thunder and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 391 p. Seapower and Global Politics. Seapower and its Measurement Rules. Rules for Counting Warships, 1494–1860. Rules for Counting Warships, 1861–1993. The Long Cycle of World Leadership. The Future of Seapower. The World Powers: Was Portugal the First World Power? The World Powers: The Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States. The Other...
Routledge, 2019. — 265 p. This book presents a comprehensive history of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN). It traces the origins of the RIN to the East India Company, as early as 1612, and untangles the institution’s complex history. Capturing various transitional phases of the RIN, especially during the crucial period of 1920–1950, it concludes with the final transfer of the RIN...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 362 p. On 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 North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the ship. On the night of August 4, the Maddox and another destroyer, the USS Turner Joy (DD-951), expecting to be attacked, saw what they interpreted as hostile...
Omnipress, 2011. — 192 p. The romantic image of the pirate has been seen as something of a Hollywood cash cow ever since Errol Flynn first climbed the rigging for the film Captain Blood, in 1935. The hugely successful Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, starring the Johnny Depp, proved undoubtedly that swashbuckling sells. But what do we know about the real Captain Jack Sparrows...
Jane's Press, 1986. — 184 p. The Naval Review is a community drawn from a wide spectrum of interested and knowledgeable practitioners and commentators on naval and maritime matters. In this Review presented the ten articles about history, armament and organizational structures of the different western navies.
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 456 p. The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on 1 April 1945. Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier...
Dutton Caliber, 2016. — 528 p. From the author of Pacific Payback, the true story of how a patchwork band of aviators saved Guadalcanal during WWII. November 1942: Japanese and American forces fight for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in the South Pacific. The Japanese call it Jigoku no Shima—Hell's Island. Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 181 p. Hitler's Titanic - the deadliest and most secret catastrophe in the history of maritime warfare. When the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by a Soviet submarine, with the loss of nearly 10,000 lives in January 1945, it wrote itself an unenviable record in the history books as the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Yet, aside from its grim fate in...
Georgetown University Press, 2016. — 368 p. Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement―but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to explore...
Clarkson N. Potter Publishers, 1965. — 472 p. Recreates twenty-nine naval great battles, from Salamis in 480 B.C. to U-Boat warfare and the Japanese-American struggle in the Pacific Ocean (1941-1945). Naval battles of the ancient world, the medieval and renaissance periods,battle of Chesapeake Bay, Trafalgar, Napoleonic Wars, early torpedos, Navarino. Lissa, Tsou-Shima, and...
Routledge, 2002. — 362 p. Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the author examines the navy's...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN13 9780253014207. — ISBN10 0253014204. A history of corporal punishment in the Brazilian navy and the four-day mutiny that took Rio hostage and put an end to the violent practice. Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 280 p. Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and the late-twentieth century. Featuring contributions from renown historians and rising scholars, this volume forwards an international perspective upon the intersection of maritime history,...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 420 p. — (Oxbow Monographs). This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and...
W. W. Norton Company, 2008. — 800 p. The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits. In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. — 800 p. The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits. In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea,...
Routledge, 2017. — 260 p. This book examines India’s naval strategy within the context of Asian regional security. Amidst the intensifying geopolitical contestation in the waters of Asia, this book investigates the growing strategic salience of the Indian Navy. Delhi’s expanding economic and military strength has generated a widespread debate on India’s prospects for shaping...
Naval Institute Press, 1980. — 238 p. Originally published to much acclaim, this is the story of the legendary German battleship that sunk the pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, on May 24, 1941, and three days later was hunted down and sunk by the British during one of the most dramatic pursuits in naval history. Told by a German naval officer who witnessed both sinkings, the book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 344 p. This volume examines the transformation of British and US naval policy from 1870 to 1889, which resulted in the British Naval Defence Act (1889), the construction of the first modern US battleships, and began the naval arms race which culminated in World War One. In examining the development of strategic thinking in the Royal and US Navies, it...
Routledge, 2014. — 265 p. Whilst maritime studies tend to reflect the dominance of large navies, history shows how relatively small naval forces can have a disproportionately large impact on global events. From Confederate commerce raiders in the nineteenth century, to Somali pirates today, even the most minor of maritime forces can become a key player on a global stage....
Bellona, 2003. — 140 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Actium was a naval battle in the last war of the Roman Republic, fought between the fleet of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. It took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea near the promontory of Actium in Greece. Octavian's victory enabled him to consolidate his...
London, Routledge, 2009. — 629 p. Naval Warfare 1919-1945 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval theatres and those powers performing major, as well...
McFarland Company, 2018. — 228 p. The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929- ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuation of Saigon--known as Operation Frequent Wind--he famously ordered several UH-1 helicopters pushed overboard to make room for an escaping South...
Allen and Unwin, 2008. — 227 p. The Gallipoli campaign (1915) is traditionally remembered as the action on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Australia, but an important addition to that land campaign was the part played by the Australian submarine HMAS AE2. The AE2 achieved a daring passage through the Dardanelles on April 25, 1915 when Anzac troops were landing on the other side at...
Il Mulino, 2021. — 304 p. Nel Medioevo, il Mediterraneo era un mare malnoto e inquietante. Nondimeno, gli uomini ne costeggiavano le sponde e lo attraversavano in ogni direzione. Un mondo viveva su e per il mare. Ma come? Con la sua documentata narrazione, Antonio Musarra riporta in luce ogni aspetto di quel Medioevo marinaro: la rete diffusa dei porti e degli attracchi; i...
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. — 404 p. Traces the U.S.S. Washington's role in World War II and shares the experiences of sailors and officers aboard the American battleship. Washington was the second of a new class of extremely fast and powerful battleships built after the collapse of the naval limitation treaty. The ship was laid in 1937, commissioned just seven months...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 208 p. Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean? This book charts the changing rates and nature of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century. Using Ottoman, Greek and other archival sources, it shows that far from ending with the introduction European powers to...
Hachette Books, 2015. — 345 p. On September 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, including 90 children headed for peaceful Canada, their parents having elected to send them away from Great Britain to escape the ravages of World War II. The Benares...
National Academies Press, 2001. — 217 p. Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, and forced the alteration of strategic and tactical plans. The threat posed by sea mines continues, and is increasing, in today's world of...
Praeger, 1995. — 256 p. These essays explore the link between the naval strength and global power of Great Britain and the United States from 1815 to the present. The British Way of Warfare assumed that the country with control of the sea could ensure safe and rapid communications for its commerce. The American theory of naval strategy, on the other hand, assumed that one had...
Praeger Security, 2006. — 257 p. From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defects were a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, the frequent premature detonation of the...
US Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 350 p. The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Konigliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to...
Presidio Press, 1996. — 384 p. The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles. Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. “Mush” Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results unprecedented in naval history; among them, successful...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1974. — 100 p. This book is a companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, a straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit. What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division...
Penguin, 2019. — 541 p. Aside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II than Admiral William D. Leahy--not Douglas MacArthur, not Dwight Eisenhower, and not even the legendary George Marshall. No man, including Harry Hopkins, was closer to Roosevelt, nor had earned his blind faith, like Leahy. Through the course of the war, constantly at the president's side and...
Praeger, 1998. — 285 p. U.S. and British naval power developed in quite different ways in the early 20th century before the Second World War. This study compares, contrasts, and evaluates both British and American naval power as well as the politics that led to the development of each. Naval power was the single greatest manifestation of national power for both countries. Their...
Office of Naval Intelligence Press, 2017. — 44 p. Over the next five years, Iran will likely continue to develop its naval strategy and capabilities in a manner that is consistent with trends we have observed since the reorganization of 2007. Given Iran’s dependency on sea -based trade, its vast coastline and strategic position adjacent to the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran will...
Basic Books, 2014. — 320 p. On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent...
Naval Institute Press, 2023. — 305 p. Before the twentieth century ships when relied upon visual signaling, vessels beyond range of sight or a cannon shot, were blind, deaf, and dumb in the dark, making night battles at sea rare, and near always accidental. The introduction of certain technologies like the torpedo, the searchlight, radio and then radar, transformed naval...
Indiana University Press, 2012. — 282 p. By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys from Gibraltar and Egypt toward Malta. In a complex battle lasting more than a week,...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 360 p. The Mediterranean Sea is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia and Africa meet. It was the most intensely contested body of water in World War II. More major naval actions were fought in the Mediterranean than in the Atlantic or Pacific. Its waters witnessed carrier strikes, battle-line shootouts, cruiser-destroyer engagements, convoy...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 384 p. Struggle at Sea is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during the First World War. The book is organized into seven major chapters. The first introduces the technology, the weapons, the ships, and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in 1914. The next five chapters treat each...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 336 р. Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars studies how the world’s navies incorporated new technologies into their ships, their practices, and their doctrine. It does this by examining six core technologies fundamental to twentieth-century naval warfare including new platforms (submarines and aircraft), new weapons (torpedoes and...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 352 p. An international team of naval historians and scholars has pooled their expertise for this definitive reference on how the great navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 336 p. Six Victories examines one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the war on traffic in the Mediterranean during the fall and winter of 1941-1942. It is a cautionary tale of how sea power was practiced, and how it shifted 180 degrees overnight. Based on British and Italian archival sources, the book...
Presidio Press, 1996. — 480 p. USS Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. This is her story as told by her skipper. The story of Tang and her gallant crew ranks with the most amazing of naval history. Whether rescuing Navy fliers off Truk or stalking enemy convoys off Japan, Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. Tang’s skipper on...
Regimental Books, 2011. — 296 p. Issued in limited quantities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy and gives a good detailed account of the history of the RAN. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies...
Faircount Media Group, 2014. — 196 p. In July the UKs largest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was successfully floated out of the dock in which she was assembled. In an operation that started earlier this week, the dry dock in Rosyth near Edinburgh was flooded for the first time to allow the 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier to float. It then took only three hours to carefully...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2017. — 225 p. — (Maritime Series 3107). — ISBN10 83-65281-36-8; ISBN13 978-8365281-36-4. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fought in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, it...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2011. — 224 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Bitwa pod Czesmą (1770) była największą turecką klęską na morzu od czasu bitwy pod Lepanto w 1571 roku. Zwycięstwo to dało rosyjskiej flocie wojennej większą ufność we własne siły. Ponadto pozwoliło Rosjanom kontrolować Morze Egejskie. Wielka klęska tureckiej floty pobudziła do działania podbite przez Turków narody,...
Bellona, 1993. — 143 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Lissa (or Battle of Vis) took place on 20 July 1866 in the Adriatic Sea near the Dalmatian island of Vis (Lissa in Italian) and was a decisive victory for an Austrian Empire force over a numerically superior Italian force. It was the first major sea battle between ironclads and one of the last to involve deliberate...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2009. — 154 p. — (Maritime Series 3101). — ISBN10: 83-89450-48-8; ISBN13: 978-83-89450-48-7. One of the first significant conflicts between major powers in the 20th Century, the war between Russia and Japan in 1905 was a chilling precursor of later wars. At sea, this was the first confrontation between Dreadnought-style battleships, and...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2010. — 162 p. — (Maritime Series 3102). — ISBN10: 83-61421-02-5; ISBN13: 978-83-61421-02-3. Book describes technical aspects of the Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-1905. Contains descriptions of all involved ships, Russian and Japanese ones. Many maps, photos. This is another wonderfully researched and written naval histories by author...
Mushroom Model Publications, 2017. — 225 p. — (Maritime Series). The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fought in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, it originated in emerging 19th-century Balkan nationalism. Additional...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 178 p. Drawn from a wealth of untold stories, Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm. Hyman Rickover was the innovative driving force behind America's nuclear submarine navy and how he revolutionized naval warfare in the latter half of the twentieth century. Rickover's single-minded focus on safety protected Americans from...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — The story of the German light cruiser SMS Emden has been the subject of over a dozen books since her destruction at the hands of the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney on 9 November 1914. Accounts of Emden's raiding activities, her loss on the Cocos Islands, and the escape of her landing party have also appeared in official histories and books...
Nova Science Publishing, 2011. — 157 p. A navy (sometimes called a maritime force) is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It includes anything conducted by surface ships, amphibious ships, submarines, and sea-borne aviation, as well as...
History Press, 2012. — 220 p. More than four decades after the great aircraft carrier USS Yorktown last served her country, the echoes of battle are still heard and felt on her decks. Staff members and visitors claim to have experienced disembodied voices, uniformed apparitions, shadowy masses and other unexplainable occurrences since the "Fighting Lady" first docked at...
Instituto de Estudios Histórico-Marítimos del Perú, 2007. — 350 p. El Diccionario Biográfico Marítimo Peruano recoge a todos aquellos que de una u otra manera, han tenido alguna actuación relevante vinculada a la actividad marítima peruana, abarcando todo el ámbito marítimo, de modo que el lector podrá encontrar a los capitanes que acompañaron a Túpac Yupanqui en su expedición...
ABC-Clio, 2004. — 283 p. Cruisers and Battle Cruisers explores the pivotal importance of cruiser-class ships to naval warfare and, in a wider scope, world politics. In vivid but accessible detail, it describes the milestones of cruiser design and deployment from mid-19th century development of steam-propelled, ironclads to the World War I introduction of battle cruisers; from...
ABC-CLIO, 2005. — 321 p. On July 4, 1991, the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers, the most powerful surface combatants in naval history, was commissioned. It was the culmination of a century-and-a-half evolution of the destroyer―an evolution captured in this vivid and timely history of the world's most popular warship. Destroyers: An Illustrated History of Their Impact tells the...
Indiana University Press, 2006. — 141 p. The battle of Heligoland Bight was the first major action between the British and German fleets during World War I. The British orchestrated the battle as a warning to the German high command that any attempt to operate their naval forces in the North Sea would be met by strong British resistance. Heligoland Island guarded the entrance to...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 310 p. Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime force on the planet. Britain could boast more warships, and particularly more Dreadnoughts and battle-cruisers than any other nation. But the Germans had undertaken an enormously expensive shipbuilding program designed to place the...
Norsk Tidsskrift, 2003. — 38 p. The two naval battles in the Ofotfjord on 9-10 April and 13 April were fought between the British Royal Navy and Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought between Norwegian, French, British, and Polish troops against German mountain troops, shipwrecked Kriegsmarine sailors and German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger)...
Norske Marinemuseet, 2014. — 32 p. Norge var i hele denne tiden, frem til 1814, i union med Danmark, eller en del av det danske riket. I hvilken grad er- eller bør dansk historie også være - norsk historie? Tiden mellom Kalmarunionen i 1397 og Grunnloven i 1814 er i mange sammenhenger bare betraktet som ”400-årsnatten”, med liten historisk bevissthet om de overnasjonale forhold...
Thistle Publishing, 2015. — 400 p. The battleship reigned supreme at sea from the 1860s to the 1940s, the ultimate symbol of naval power and national pride, queen on the naval chessboard. This book describes its evolution from the wooden man-of-war plated with iron armour to the great steel leviathan of the Second World War, and its ultimate displacement as arbiter of naval...
St. Martin's Press, 1974. — 328 p. God, the gun and the sailing ship were the three pillars of Western civilization. It was the simultaneous development of guns and sailing ships and the fusing of the two into a weapon that swept all before it which allowed Renaissance Europe to establish world supremacy. In tracing this process from when guns were first taken aboard ships and...
Overlook Press, 2005. — 488 p. Peter Padfield has made his reputation as a naval warfare historian. His biography of Admiral Donitz is particularly worthwhile. In this study, he attempts to combine the social, political, financial, and cultural events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a discussion of naval warfare. He provides an interesting evaluation...
Lume Books, 2021. — 340 p. In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. In contrast to the rigid hierarchies and centralisation of land-based empires, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility and enterprise. The seventeenth-century...
Harper Collins, 1972. — 360 p. This book traces the history of the battleship from beginning to end - i.e. from the 1860's to the 1940's. This was a time when the fate of nations rested upon their naval power and the Battleship became the main element of that power once it had eclipsed the wooden ship of the line. This author writes a most interesting and worthwhile account of...
David McKay Company, 1974. — 404 p. This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in Dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War. It is a story of two great empires set on a collision course to the Armageddon of 1914.But was the outbreak of war, as many historians have written, the inevitable result of the...
Lume Books, 2021. — 404 p. This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in Dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War. It is a story of two great empires set on a collision course to the Armageddon of 1914. But was the outbreak of war, as many historians have written, the inevitable result of the armaments...
Routledge, 2017. — 284 p. Stripped of dogma, national bias and historical legend, this volume of early modern naval history deals with the period from Venetian sea supremacy and the Portuguese campaigns of discovery to the Dutch conquest of a world-wide maritime empire, and finally the emergence of England as a serious rival to the Dutch. The author describes the ships,...
Lume Books, 2021. — 290 p. This, the second volume of Peter Padfield’s four-part history of naval warfare, starts with England poised to take over from Holland as foremost world trading and naval power. It leads through the epic struggle of both maritime powers against Bourbon France and concludes with England’s triumphant assumption of the ‘Sovereignty of the Seas’. Underlying...
Lume Books, 2020. — 425 p. The canvas is broad and deep, from the strategic perspective at the top to the cramped and claustrophobic life of the crews in their submersible steel tubes; from the feats of ‘ace’ commanders to the terrifying experiences of men under attack in this most pitiless form of warfare. War Beneath the Sea describes the technical and tactical measures by...
Mariner Books, 2000. — 292 p. This book traces the history of naval warfare through the stories of more than two hundred of the most famous and important fighting ships, from the earliest triremes and Viking longships to the Mary Rose, Wasa, Bonhomme Richard, HMS Victory, USS Constitution, USS Monitor, and Mikasa. Each ship is described in a vivid short essay that captures its...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 390 p. Commanders at sea struggle not only with the unpredictability of natural elements, but also with a shroud of uncertainty often referred to as the "fog of war." Over the centuries most admirals yielded to the natural temptation to find in new technologies a means to assert centralized control over their forces. But other commanders have...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 78 p. The United States Navy involvement in the Vietnam War prior to 1964 was primarily blue water operations. In 1964, the Vietnam Delta Infiltration Study Group was tasked to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of enemy infiltration of men and supplies into South Vietnam Mekong Delta region across the Cambodia and Laos borders. The...
Ashgate Publishing, 2012. — 202 p. The Indian Navy has gradually emerged as an indispensable tool of Indian diplomacy in recent years, making it imperative for Indian policy-makers and naval thinkers to think anew the role of the nation’s naval forces in Indian strategy. There is a long tradition in India of viewing the maritime dimension of security as central to the nation’s...
Leisure Books, 1975. — 260 p. The Encyclopedia of Sea Warfare is a fine addition to any military enthusiast's library. This book gives a detailed and concise history of modern sea warfare from the early wooden ships of the 19th Century on through the battleships and aircraft carriers of today. Well illustrated with pertinent data, this book is a must for anyone wanting a nice...
Independently Publishers, 2021. — 127 p. The Naval Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, covering a major part of the Naval history of World War II.
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 412 p. This textbook is intended to serve as an introduction to the underlying science and engineering of weapons used in the naval service. The philosophy used in the material selected for this text is that individual weapons come and go, but the principles of their operation largely remain the same. Some subjects are covered in greater detail...
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 243 p. The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britain’s Russian allies. Convoy JW-51B sailed in December 1942 with a small close escort of five destroyers, plus a reserve of two light cruisers, which shadowed the...
Harvard University Press, 1974. — 284 p. This study challenges some widely held assumptions about the origins of the war in the Pacific by pointing out the importance of the naval race in the 1930s between the Anglo-American powers and the Japanese. Until now Japanese military history in the thirties has been viewed largely from the standpoint of the army. Stephen Pelz corrects...
Octopus Books, 1975. — 146 p. Подробный обзор развития, эволюции и совершенствования военно-морского вооружения и военного кораблестроения - от времен строительства древних финикийских галер до создания современных подводных атомных лодок.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 152 p. During World War I (1914-1918) the North Sea became the principal battleground for the navies of Britain and Germany. This book explains in chronological order the major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm II’s High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also includes other important operations such as mine-laying and sweeping, the Zeppelin...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1970. — 357 s. Pierwsza część "Morza w ogniu" dotyczy wybranych wydarzeniach wojny morskiej (od 1 września 1939 r. do końca sierpnia 1942 roku), które rozegrały się podczas II wojny światowej. Książka została podzielona na dziesięć rozdziałów: Zatopienie "Athenii". Bitwa koło ujścia La Platy. Napaść na Norwegię. Operacja "Menace". Polowanie na...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1971. — 387 s. Pierwsza część "Morza w ogniu" dotyczy wybranych wydarzeniach wojny morskiej (od 1 września 1939 r. do końca sierpnia 1942 roku), które rozegrały się podczas II wojny światowej. Książka została podzielona na dziesięć rozdziałów: Zatopienie "Athenii". Bitwa koło ujścia La Platy. Napaść na Norwegię. Operacja "Menace". Polowanie na...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 236 p. On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogger Banks. The force was engaged by a British force, which had been alerted by a decoded radio intercept. The ensuing battle would prove to be the largest and longest surface engagement until...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 236 p. On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogger Banks. The force was engaged by a British force, which had been alerted by a decoded radio intercept. The ensuing battle would prove to be the largest and longest surface engagement until...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 320 p. The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and the largest oared vessels ever built. Michael Pitassi gathers all the available evidence...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 320 p. The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and the largest oared vessels ever built. Michael Pitassi gathers all the available evidence...
The Boydell Press, 2009. — 392 p. This publication represents the first true examination of the Roman Navy as an independent arm of the military. Though many may perceive the Roman Empire as a primarily land-based organisation, an empire forged by the formidable legions of infantry, thetruth is that it was as much a maritime empire as that of the British in the nineteenth...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. — ISBN 1408844362. The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years. The fabric and organization of this...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years. The fabric and organization of this maritime force is...
Lexington Books, 2013. — 289 р. The twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in privatization of the military, especially of logistics and security functions during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The outbreak of Somali piracy that started in 2008 has prompted a similar revolution in maritime security. Private security companies began operating armed escort vessels...
Time Life Books, 1980. — 218 p. Action photographs, paintings by Allied and German combat artists, and text vividly reconstruct the events of the fierce four-year struggle against German aggression at sea. This is a good start for anyone interested in submarine warfare. This book gives a general history of the submarine and gives wartime accounts of both Allied and German...
Spellmount Publishers, 2006. — 288 p. This book focuses on the human side of destroyer actions in the first eight months of the War, using eye witness accounts, many previously unpublished, of those who participated or played a part in the actions. It thus has Polish, French and Norwegian, as well as British and German, naval and civilian input, much of it researched from...
Bellona, 1993. — 162 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto...
Glas, 2015. — 121 p. Alexander Pokrovsky’s cycle of satirical stories about the trials and trivialities of life on a nuclear submarine are both funny and frightening. Based on the author’s 15 years as an officer in the navy, they convince you of the sorry state of these underwater vessels that sometimes turn into common graves.
Potomac Books, 2009. — 292 p. From history’s earliest days men have gone down to sea—on logs, then boats, and, subsequently, ships. Norman Polmar and Christopher Cavas maneuver in Most Wanted style to find the best and worst of the admirals, ships, inventions, submarines, torpedoes, and aircraft that have fought on, over, and under the waves. The top-ten lists in Navy’s Most...
Potomac Books, 2006. — 575 p. Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare....
Pen and Sword, 1998. — 212 p. This is the story of the life at sea, by English Naval Officer Richard Pool. He saw the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, the Fall of Singapore in 1942, was sunk of the coast of Malaya and was stranded on a desert island for four months. This is an amazing account of Richard Pool's involvement in Dunkirk, his survival of the sinking of HMS Repulse off...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 264 p. In this surprisingly lively approach to recording the impact of technology on the war at sea, Kenneth Poolman follows comprehensive descriptions of each new technical development with dramatic examples of its use in action. To combat the savage campaign mounted by German submarines and surface raiders to keep vital supplies from the Allies,...
McBooks Press, 2005. — 335 p. The events and decisions that culminated in the Battle of the Barents Sea—what many consider to be the most important naval engagement of World War II's European theatre—in which eight of the German navy's most powerful ships failed to sink a Russian convoy guarded by only four small British destroyers, are brought to life by the author in this...
McBooks Press, 2005. — 255 p. This tale of the Battle of the River Plate follows the machinations of the German war machine as Kapitan zur See Hans Langsdorff commands the pocket battleship Graf Spee on a mission to cripple British shipping. Through clever subterfuge and daring, the Graf Spee takes ship after ship, ultimately forcing the British Navy to send twenty ships in...
Verdun Press, 2015. — 468 p. A brilliant, concise and, perhaps, best single volume history of the Second World War at Sea. Written by veteran historian E. B. Potter during his time as resident historian at the United States Naval Academy this history is filled with action and analysis. As the conflict raged from the Pacific to the North Sea the author takes the action in each...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 827 p. Answers decades in the making about the shocking surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., they received the order to rain death on the American base at Pearl Harbor, sinking dozens of ships, destroying hundreds of airplanes, and taking...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 488 p. The inside story of the historic battle that turned the tide in the war for the Pacific six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for...
Conway Maritime Press, 1978. — 72 p. Excellent book. Covers the different types of Super-Destroyers: Japanese Special Type ("Fubuki") of 1923 and onwards; the Italian "Navigatori" class of 1926; the French "Fantasque" class of 1930; the US 1850 ton destroyer leaders of the "Porter" and "Somers" classes of the late 1930s; the British "Tribal" class of 1938; and the German...
London: Chrysalis Books, 2002. — 194 p. — ISBN 0-85177-754-6. A serious study of the reasons why some warships have achieved bad reputations. It covers the period from 1860 to the present day, and looks at a wide range of nationalities and ship-types. Some examples are the Russian Popoffkas; the French battleship 'Brennus'; and the British vessel 'Captain'.
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 238 p. When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at once the major dividing barrier and the major connecting element. In this study, the technological limitations of maritime traffic are considered in...
Primary Publishing, 2013. — 356 p. On Christmas eve 1969, five small boats slipped out of Cherbourg harbor after midnight into the teeth of a Force Nine gale that sent freighters scurrying for cover. The boats, ordered by Israel from a local shipyard, had been embargoed for more than a year for political reasons by France. In a brazen caper, the Israelis were now running off...
Routledge, 2022. — 208 p. This book studies India’s evolving naval engagements with other nations of the Indian Ocean region. It traces the growth of the Indian Navy and discusses its role as an instrument of meeting national objectives, particularly for furthering foreign policy. The volume analyses themes such as Indian Navy’s (IN) transition from a brown water to blue water...
Hachette Books, 2020. — 336 p. From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet. The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships -- Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 368 p. Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England. This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 256 p. The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea. The navy played a central role in the evacuation of the retreating British army at Dunkirk, and later orchestrated the sinking of Germany's mighty battleship and Hitler's pride, the...
Seuil, 2017. — 279 p. Marcus Rediker est le grand historien des hors-la-loi de l'Atlantique. Il explore ici le monde fascinant de l'aventure maritime du point de vue des pirates, flibustiers, travailleurs forcés en révolte, esclaves marrons, fuyards et autres mutins, qui ont défié l'autorité depuis le pont inférieur des navires. Il nous fait entrer dans leur univers de récits...
Beacon Press, 2014. — 248 p. This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals,...
Beacon Press, 2004. — 248 p. Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unclimbed pirate who was...
Allen & Unwin, 2003. — 363 p. Naval history is sometimes criticised for concentrating on the technical side of operations at the expense of the human. The Face of Naval Battle breaks new ground in that for the first time the authors closely examine the individual and group experience of maritime warfare in the twentieth century. What is it that makes naval battle different from...
Carlton Books, 2012. — 288 p. From the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight, to the HMS Trinidad, a British cruiser that managed to torpedo itself, this copiously illustrated collection of incompetence on the high seas takes a serious if often entertaining look at the misjudgments of captains, fleet commanders, and ship designers from...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 320 p. Intrepid Sailors tells one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.S. Navy. Under Commodore Edward Preble, the Navy came of age fighting the scourge of the time, the infamous Barbary Pirates. Intrepid Sailors tells the story of the Navy's campaign to subdue the pirate leader of Tripoli, who declared war on the United States in...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 345 p. Chipp Reid, author of Intrepid Sailors, continues to tell the story of the war against the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli, America's first overseas war. To the Walls of Derne recounts the 1804 naval campaign to unseat the ruler of Tripoli, Yusuf Karamanli. Using a three-pronged approach, President Thomas Jefferson first ordered the most...
Leiden University Press, 2018. — 695 p. The present volume, The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal, volume 26 of the series, describes the Japanese Navy’s role in the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago—at that time the largest transoceanic landing operation in the military history of the world. It includes, among others,...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 172 p. Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a pirate's gold rush; how the King's Pardon was a desperate gamble - which paid off - and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 378 p. Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd even though they lived about three hundred years ago, but most have also heard of other pirates,...
Presses de l’University de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. — 462 p. Il est des continents à redécouvrir, et des océans. Le monde de la course et de la flibuste en fait partie. Non pas qu'il soit absent de notre imaginaire ; bien au contraire, il l'encombre de souvenirs adolescents : récits de piraterie dévorés dans la Bibliothèque verte, sagas hollywoodiennes en technicolor. La science...
Krieger Publishing Co., 1984. — 689 p. This is how the world works - as the Phoenicians transporting good across the Aegean, they brought ideas, religions, and parts of other societies with them and all protected by the navies of those city-states with whom they traded. It worked then, it worked for the Brits, and it works for us now. A must-read for everyone involved in...
Time-Life Books, 1982. — 181 p. Traces the development of aircraft carriers and their military use in World War II. Good overview, excellent pictures with sufficient narrative to be a good overview or first book on this critical ship type that changed naval warfare. A rare mention of the minor but useful role of British Carriers late in the war. Anyone who is interested in the...
Frank Cass, 2004. — 412 p. With the fall of France, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These 'secret flotillas' landed and picked up agents in and from France, and ferried Allied evaders and escapees. This activity was crucial to the SIS (Secret...
Frank Cass, 2004. — 485 p. This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War II. The account has been made possible through Sir Brooks' access to closed government archives, combined with his own wartime experiences and the recollections of many...
Independently published, 2024. — 122 p. This rich history of the Roman Imperial Navy and the sailors who manned their fleets deserve to be fully acknowledged. Most know that the legions of Rome fought and defended the Roman Empire but without their Imperial Navy this empire may never have been able to expand its frontier's This book well researched covers the organisation of...
Independently published, 2024. — 122 p. This rich history of the Roman Imperial Navy and the sailors who manned their fleets deserve to be fully acknowledged. Most know that the legions of Rome fought and defended the Roman Empire but without their Imperial Navy this empire may never have been able to expand its frontier's This book well researched covers the organisation of...
McFarland, 2013. — 408 p. As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to...
McFarland, 2010. — 384 p. Drawing on U.S. government reports, interrogation reports of Japanese officers, ship action reports and secondary sources, this book details more than 400 kamikaze attacks by Japanese aircraft, manned torpedoes, suicide boats and suicide swimmers against U.S. ships during World War II. Part One focuses on the traditions, development and history of the...
Casemate Publishers, 2010. — 435 p. This is the previously untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged naval battles in history: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945. The US fleet and its accompanying airpower that took station off Okinawa was of gigantic proportions, such that the Japanese could only rely...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 401 p. The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States. During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told-until now. It was Wade McClusky who remained...
Seaforth Publishing, 2018. — 232 p. Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg and Passchendaele. These epics of destruction and futility are such bywords for the First World War that Jutland apart we forget the role played by sea power in the war to end war. The great global conflict is too often narrowed to the fields of Flanders and the plains of Picardy. Now, award-winning biographer...
Cassell, 2001. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0304353086. The beginnings of the aircraft carrier were difficult. Guy Robbins' detailed history tells of the early days in World War One, when seaplanes had to be lowered from the ship to take off from the sea, and whinched aboard again on their return. These impracticalities led eventually to aircraft that could take off and land from a long,...
Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. — 301 p. The British Pacific Fleet was formed in October 1944 and dispatched to fight alongside the USN in the Central Pacific under Admiral Nimitz. Deploying previously unpublished documents, this book reveals how relations between the UK and US forces developed from a starting point of barely repressed suspicion, to one where both navies came...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 144 p. The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the "as fitted" general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the...
London: Chatham Publishing, 1997. — 134 p. Origins Design and construction 1904-1915 Battlecruiser revival Perspective drawings Machinery Armament Armour Summary of Service Sources Notes Folding plans of HMS Queen Marry 1913
JHU Press, 2002. — 301 p. Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental technology. In addition, it had to manage a ship acquisition...
Hailed as the most extensive photographic record of the naval side of World War II ever produced, this book is a must for anyone interested in naval history. From Robert Capa's images of the mayhem on Omaha Beach to the amateur photography of a serviceman on board a destroyer, the collection offers a moving and informative look at all theaters. The introduction of the 35-mm camera...
Frontline, 2011. — 224 p. The legendary U-boat ace Otto Kretschmer was branded 'the wolf of the Atlantic', and for good reason. In his dramatic wartime career he sank ship after ship, sowing terror among Allied convoys and dismay in those charged with their protection. Kretschmer was a daring officer who favored bringing his U-boat into the heart of the convoy and destroying it...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 186 p. In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honorable East India Company’s wooden...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 216 p. Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing vessels and coastal communities all round the British Isles. Yet fishermen and...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 304 p. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts. The Royal Navy was a key player in the wider wars and, for Britain, the key factor in her eventual emergence as the only naval power capable of sustained global hegemony. The most iconic battles of any era were fought at sea during these years - from the Battle of the...
Conway Maritime Press, 2005. — 178 p. This volume in 'Conway's Compass Series' integrates an original narrative with quotations from documents and eyewitnesses, and reproductions of contemporary illustrations or photographs to provide an authoritative account of the Trafalgar's campaign, battle and denouement. This eclectic approach offers both the perspective of hindsight,...
Write Stuff Syndicate, 1994. — 176 p. The first historian to be granted full access to Electric Boat's vaulted archives in nearly a hundred years, Jeffrey L. Rodengen has produced yet another intriguing work for naval historians and landlubbers alike. Serving the Silent Service: The Legend of Electric Boat is the story of a company that persevered to help win two world wars and...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 848 p. How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this ground-breaking four volume work. The books bring together the world's leading maritime historians, who address the question of what difference the sea has made in relation to around 250 situations ranging from the earliest times to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. — 296 p. It is a century since Mahan and his disciples taught the world that a battlefleet was indispensable to a great power. Great and not so great powers still keep powerful navies today, but we have no generally-accepted principles to explain why. In this book historians and naval officers from Britain, the United States and other countries study...
Agualarga Editores, 1999. — 143 p. El 10 de agosto de 1862 zarparon de Cádiz bajo el mando del almirante Pinzón las fragatas Triunfo y Resolución, esta última llevaba la insignia de Pinzón y a bordo a la Comisión Científica del Pacífico. En el Río de la Plata se les unieron la Vencedora y la Covadonga. A principios de mayo se encontraban las cuatro naves en Valparaíso, donde...
Naval Institute Press, 1983. — 386 p. The new revised edition of this comprehensive reference book - the product of more than twenty years' detailed research - provides the most extensive and reliable data on Axis submarine victories available in any one volume.
Stackpole Books, 2016. — 304 p. The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous campaign of World War II, climaxed in 1943, when Germany came closest to interrupting Allied supply lines and perhaps winning the war. In March of that year, German U-boats scored their last great triumph, destroying nearly 150,000 tons of supplies and fuel. Jürgen Rohwer, a World War II veteran...
Turner Publishing, 2003. — 96 p. Author Otto C. Romanelli, Lt. Cdr. USNR Ret., recounts his naval experiences during 1943–1945 aboard the carrier USS Lexington, "The Blue Ghost." Through numerous photographs, charts, and maps, his exciting journey comes to life. A wonderful personal account story.
Flanker Press, 2012. — 265 p. During World War II St. John's, Newfoundland played a critical role in the fight against Nazi Germany. Seamen from all over the world sailed to and from the old seaport, chosen for duty because it was closest to Europe and because its people knew both the peril and glory of the North Atlantic. In his introduction to this absorbing collection of...
University of Missouri, 2006. — 393 p. Bringing to a close his epic recounting of naval power in the twentieth century, Lisle Rose describes the virtual disappearance after 1945 of all but one great navy, whose existence and operations over the next sixty years guaranteed a freedom of the seas so complete as to be at once universally acknowledged and ignored. In the first twenty...
University of Missouri, 2006. — 384 p. The twentieth century was preeminently an age of warring states and collapsing empires. Industrialism brought not peace but the sword. And the tip of that sword was sea power. In Power at Sea, Lisle A. Rose gives us an unprecedented narrative assessment of modern sea power, how it emerged from the Age of Fighting Sail, how it was employed in...
University of Missouri, 2006. — 534 p. After 1921, the clouds of suspicion and resentment left by the Great War gradually obscured the strenuous efforts of negotiating statesmen and led to ever greater appetites for power at sea. By the mid-thirties, worried admiralties around the world were bracing themselves for a new and deadlier round of global violence. In this monumental...
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 336 p. The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort. The Doolittle Raid, launched from the Hornet's deck, inaugurated America's Pacific counter-offensive and transformed the aircraft carrier into one of the world's prime strategic weapon systems. She was one of three carriers to...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 672 p. First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 672 p. First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 544 p. First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 544 p. First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime...
Amber Books, 2015. — 224 p. For more than 400 years, the big-gun warship stood as the supreme naval war machine. It was not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. The World's Greatest Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed in the last 500 years. Beginning with English king Henry VIII's flagship,...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 280 p. In contrast to the voluminous literature on trench warfare, few scholarly works have been written on how the First World War was experienced at sea. The conditions of war challenged the Royal Navy's position within British national identity and its own service ethos. This challenge took the form of a dialogue, fuelled by fear of civil...
Routledge, 2019. — 232 p. This book offers a detailed investigation of naval diplomacy, past and present, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of sea power thought. Despite the acknowledgement of the importance of the threat or use of force in the pursuit of policy since the dawn of strategic thought, the utility of seapower in operations other than war is...
World Press, 1972. — 181 p. The navy was the weakest and poorest branch of the Mughal military system. The Empire did maintain warships, however they were relatively small. The fleet also consisted of transport ships. The Navy's main duty was controlling piracy, but they were also used in wars.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 356 p. This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in the fleet reviews, naval visits and ship launches that were...
Routledge, 2019. — 348 p. German U-boats, known as "iron coffins", terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume, published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2021. — 256 p. Focusing on seven decisive naval engagements from the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in the fifth century BC to the Siege of Malta during the Second World War, this book tells the story of the Mediterranean as a theater of war at sea. Each of these fiercely fought battles was to change the balance of power and shape the course of...
Naval Historical Center, 1997. — 48 p. Starting in the Second World War, the United States assumed the leadership of major multinational politico-military coalitions, first to destroy fascism and later to thwart the spread of communism. Military assistance programs, in which the American armed services helped their foreign counterparts to help defend themselves, served a vital...
Capstone Press, 2017. — 34 p. Discusses life as a U.S. Navy sailor, including life at sea, the education and training required, and different Navy specializations. Sailors in the Navy will almost certainly spend part of their careers at sea. Everyone on board has a job whether it's a cook, medic, to nuclear equipment operator. And even though a sailor’s life on a ship is strict...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 248 p. This book is the collective biography of 318 naval men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become professional officers. Eric C.Rust traces the lives and mentality of these men from their upbringing in the Weimar Republic through their post-war careers. It provides a professional, political and psychological group portrait based largely...
Octopus books, 1978. — 124 p. Traces the history and development of ships, ship-building, and sailing from the papyrus rafts of ancient Egypt to modern nuclear ships and giant tankers. Includes index.
Birlinn, 2012. — 465 p. Scotland's long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, eastward down to the Moray Firth, the eastern seaboard, to the Forth and the sentinel of the Bass Rock. It is an...
Prefácio, 2004. — 183 p. Following the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 and having defeated António, Prior of Crato in the War of the Portuguese Succession, the Habsburg Philip II of Spain became King of Portugal as Philip I. Under the Iberian Union, Portugal continued to be formally an independent kingdom with its own Navy, but its foreign and naval policies became...
Nowtilus, 2019. — 288 p. La Guerra contra los Berberiscos, la Armada del Mar de Sur y la Defensa de Cartagena de Indias. La apasionante vida del almirante Mediohombre, uno de los mejores estrategas de la Armada española. Desde su aprendizaje en la Armée Royale francesa, las hazañas con los corsarios de Rochefort, hasta la interminable campaña contra los berberiscos, la toma de...
Nowtilus, 2017. — 368 p. Desde que, en 1537, el rey Enrique VIII de Inglaterra decide romper con Roma y el catolicismo hasta la consumación del desastre de la Armada Invencible en 1588, transcurre medio siglo de enemistad y hostilidad entre la España imperial de los Austrias y la contradictoria Inglaterra emergente de los Tudor. A la pujanza política y expansiva del Imperio...
Nowtilus, 2017. — 323 p. Desde Sumeria y Babilonia hasta Grecia y Roma: 27 grandes Batallas Navales, los navíos y sus tácticas: Cumas, Salamina, Actium, Micala, Eurimedón, Arginusas, Egos Pótamos. Descubra las epopeyas marinas protagonizadas por Octavio Augusto, Marco Antonio, Cleopatra, Ramsés III, Agripa o la reina Artemisia de Halicarnaso. Acérquese a las batallas navales...
Nowtilus, 2017. — 336 p. Descubra la Edad Media a través de la guerra en el mar: las invasiones bárbaras, musulmanas y normandas (Vikingos), las cruzadas, las primeras potencias navales (Venecia, Génova y Aragón) hasta la campaña naval otomana durante la conquista de Constantinopla. 27 grandes Batallas Navales en un momento de trascendental cambio histórico: de la pax romana a...
Nowtilus, 2019. — 336 p. La apasionante historia de la evolución técnica y táctica de los buques más importantes de las flotas actuales. Desde sus orígenes en el siglo XVI, el auge de la fragatas acorazadas a vapor y su posterior resurgimiento tras la IIGM como buque de ataque antisubmarino, hasta su fulgurante desarrollo actual y las fragatas del futuro, con equipos...
Nowtilus, 2018. — 416 p. La apasionante historia de los reyes de los mares, protagonistas de épicas hazañas legendarias en todos los océanos y mares del globo, desde 1850 hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Conozca las trascendentales batallas de los más modernos buques artilleros, policalibres, Dreadnought y superacorazados, que fueron durante un siglo el instrumento clave de...
Nowtilus, 2018. — 352 p. Cinco siglos de batallas navales trascendentales por la hegemonía del Mare Nostrum: desde Solimán contra el Imperio Español o Napoleón contra Inglaterra hasta las dos Guerras Mundiales. El fascinante mundo de la Armée Royale, la Mediterranean Fleet, la Regia Marina o la KuK Marine de la mano de grandes nombres como Barbarroja, Juan de Austria, Andrea...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 248 p. Maritime Power in the Black Sea provides the first comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the comparative maritime power of the six littoral states in the Black Sea - Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria. This book examines the maritime capabilities and assets of each of the six littoral Black Sea states and also considers...
ABC-CLIO, 2004. — 229 p. — (Weapons and Warfare). From ancient times to World War II and the postwar period, Battleships charts the evolution of the vessel that ruled the seas―a vessel that, until the arrival of the aircraft carrier, would be the most expensive and complex human-made moving object in history. Over 40 photographs make clear the defining features of each...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 127 p. Naval Air Station Jacksonville was commissioned on October 15, 1940, and has trained tens of thousands of naval aviators throughout its long history. Located along the banks of the St. Johns River, the site and the weather conditions make the base a premier aviation facility. Initially conducting primary and sea-plane training, it expanded to...
University of California Press, 1981. — 538 p. A study of European naval exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, Venice and Portuguese maritime Empires. In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the...
Routledge, 2019. — 538 p. A study of European naval exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, Venice and Portuguese maritime Empires. In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to...
Naval Institute Press, 1987. — 443 p. Shows how Latin American naval fleets were developed to protect these nations from foreign intervention, discusses the influence of the U.S. Navy on the continent, and deeply analyzes the Falklands War 1982.
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 208 p. In this timeless book, Vice Admiral Schofield describes the great events of June 1944 which, as Captain of HMS Dryad, the Royal Naval shore establishment which housed General Dwight Eisenhower’s Supreme Allied Headquarters before the landing, he witnessed at first hand.This is an impressive story of all the planning and details from the...
University of Missouri Press, 2004. — 161 p. Annotation Although the state of Missouri is located hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, ships with Missouri names and connections have served the United States for decades. In Missouri at Sea, Richard Schroeder uses the ships that were named after the state, its cities, and its favorite sons to explore the important role that...
Simon and Schuster, 2008. — 277 p. May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode into – that the Soviets planned revenge for the mysterious sinking of a Russian sub two months before…or that a traitor has been supplying the KGB with the US Navy’s...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 410 p. I think what most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725 pirates sailed the oceans of the world, plundering ships laden with the riches of India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Often portrayed as...
Philadelphia: McCurdy Publishers, 1883. — 719 p. Классическая книга американского историка и офицера флота Эдварда Шиппена описывает его изложение величайших морских сражений от времен античности до современного ему 1882 года: от морских сражений греков, римлян и карфагенян до бомбардировки английским флотом египетской Александрии в 1882 году. В целом, книга написана достаточно...
Austin Macauley Publishers, 2022. — 138 p. The story is told through the words of the author’s dad, John Shirley, a Sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy on board the Alnwick Castle; and Herbert Lochner, a mechanical engineer on the submarine U425. They fought separate wars, but were brought together in one dramatic and tragic incident that changed their lives forever. Find yourself...
Editorial Juventud, 2013. — 264 p. Este libro narra la historia de los cruceros auxiliares alemanes que disfrazados de inofensivos cargueros, realizaron hundimientos espectaculares en la segunda guerra mundial. En él seguiremos día a día las andanzas de estos corsarios que se hicieron famosos por su arte del camuflaje y por su audacia. También participaremos de su emoción al...
The History Press, 2011. — 186 p. In March 1941, the Royal Navy scored one of the greatest one-sided victories against the Italian Fleet the Regia Marina at Matapan. It brought to an end six months of remarkable success for the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. When France fell and Italy declared war on Britain, Admiral Dudley Pound had wanted to evacuate the Mediterranean...
Routledge, 2019. — 352 p. The second in a projected set of five volumes dealing with Anglo America Naval Relations, this volume brings together documents from the period 1919-1939 which was dominated by a series of naval arms limitation and disarmament conferences. The book also includes a section of documents that deal with encounters of serving officers and men of the two...
Routledge, 2021. — 520 p. The account in this volume begins with Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham’s assumption of the First Sea Lordship on 5 October 1943, and concludes with the formal surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. This volume is entitled Anglo-American-Canadian Naval Relations, 1943-1945, for the very good reason that, by the end of the war, the Royal...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 265 p. 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 the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry's comment, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," the battle marked the U.S. Navy's first successful fleet action and was one of the rare...
Portsmouth: Griffin & Co, 1880. — 309 p. This book containing a complete and concise account of the rise and progress of submarine warfare; also a detailed description of all matters appertaining thereto, including the latest improvements.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2007. — 289 p. From the year 1066 the English Channel has provided Great Britain with a natural defensive barrier, but never more than in the early days of World War Two. This book relates how the Royal Navy defended that vital seaway throughout the war. From the early days of the Dover Patrols, through the traumas of the Dunkirk evacuation, the battles of...
Eschenburg Press, 2017. — 224 p. In this work, I have attempted to recreate most operational phases of the Battle. And yet I am certain there is much material which has not been included—not for any lack of conscientiousness on my part, but because that material was simply not available. Leyte was based on Action Reports, diaries, letters to the author, official studies and...
London: Routledge Group, 2001. — 263 p. — (Warfare and History). This book looks at the transition of wooden sailing fleets to the modern steel navy. It details the technological breakthroughs that brought about this change - steam-power, armour, artillery and torpedoes, and looks at their affect on naval strategy and tactics. Part of the ever-growing and prestigious Warfare and...
Reaktion Books, 2004. — 336 p. Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the dawn of the twenty-first century and beyond. In a series of case studies Lawrence Sondhaus examines the national fleets of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Chile and the Soviet Union, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 417 p. This is a major new naval history of the First World War (1914-1918) which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role of critical innovations in...
Adams Media, 2008. — 304 p. The Everything Pirate Book will take you on a pirate tour from ancient times to their Golden Age to the modern-day search for buried treasure and reveals the truth behind the Hollywood hype. From the corsairs of the Barbary Coast to Blackbeard to Jean Lafitte, pirates have been a part of every culture for centuries. Sometimes terrifying but always...
Universiteit Utrecht Press, 2008. — 158 p. Nederlandse koopvaarders waren in de Gouden Eeuw kwetsbaar voor de aanvallen van zeerovers. Die brachten de economie grote schade toe. De Republiek zette oorlogsschepen en diplomaten in om haar handelsvloot te beschermen. Het probleem was echter te groot om door één land te worden opgelost. Piraterij en vijandelijke kaapvaart vormden...
Viking Press, 2001. — 504 p. The author takes an interesting approach to describing the evolution of naval warfare during the twentieth century. He describes the development of technologies in conjunction with the training and treatment of the men in different navies at different times and shows the ramifications in selected battles. One aspect that make this book particularly...
Free Press, 1985. — 589 p. Traces the naval war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor (1941) to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945), and examines the major naval battles and campaigns.
Routledge, 2022. — 252 p. This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent. Africa possesses 48,000 kilometers of coastline, comprising 38 out of 54 of the continent’s states and several strategic choke points for international shipping, such as the Suez...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. — 335 p. In his acclaimed book Sea Power, James Stavridis reckoned with the history and geopolitics of the world's great bodies of water. Now in Sailing True North, he offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. Admiral...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 384 p. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world’s oceans from the admiral’s chair, showing...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 317 p. — ISBN 9780735220591 From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world’s oceans from the...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 232 р. Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection. The Sailor's Bookshelf offers synopses of fifty books that illustrate the history, importance, lore, and lifestyle of the oceans and of those who "go down to the sea in ships."...
University of British Columbia Press, 1988. — 184 p. The Mediterranean Sea in World War II was the scene of prolonged and violent naval warfare between the British and the Axis powers, Italy and Germany. The stories of the major squadrons and their admirals have been told, as their actions led directly to the outcomes. Here is the tale of the smallest surface ships, their...
Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2007. — 236 p. The Roman navy was active and absolutely necessary at all stages of the expansion of Rome’s Mediterranean dominion. In the centuries before the First Punic War, commerce with the Greeks and the Phoenicians made Rome a prosperous city. The Romans were involved in commerce, warfare and piracy like any other nation in the Tyrrhenian...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 268 p. The outcome of much of the naval war in World War II was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters of naval conflict. Despite this, there were a surprising number of ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most...
Seaforth Publishing, 2008. — 256 p. Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many hard-fought...
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 623 p. Introduction. Cruisers in all Sizes and Shapes – A First Glimpse of the Future: 1897–1914. The Test of Battle, Part 1: 1914–1916. War Production and the Gold Standard – The Hawkins Class and their Contemporaries: 1914–1922. The Washington Treaty and its Immediate Consequences: 1920–1922. Treaty Cruisers – The First Generation: 1922–1926....
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 224 p. The Author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners. The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2 with the loss of HMS Courageous and Glorious but,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 224 p. The Author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners. The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2 with the loss of HMS Courageous and Glorious but,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2018. — 224 p. As this well researched work reveals, Hitlers handling the German Navy during the Second World War was full of contradictions. The seriousness of the U-boat threat was never in doubt and in the dark days of 1940 1942, the Donitzs daring strategy coupled with the courage and determined actions of the captains and crews became perilously...
McFarland and Company Publishers, 2009. — 343 p. This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the U.S., British, French and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, officers from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. — (Osprey General Military). Leyte was a huge and complex action, actually consisting of four major battles, each of which are broken down in detail in this book, using original sources. The plans of both sides, and how they dictated the events that followed, are also examined critically. So much of the accepted wisdom of the battle has...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 304 p. A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea. The defining feature of the Pacific Theater of World War II was the clash of carriers that ultimately decided the fate of...
MetroBooks, 2001. — 160 p. From the sinking of the Maine, which sparked the Spanish-American War, to the devastating losses in the attack on Pearl Harbor, battleships have played a crucial role in the history of modern naval warfare. Tracing the development of the battleship from the commissioning of the first seagoing class in the 1890s, Battleships brings to life the story of...
Routledge, 2020. — 241 p. This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. It examines the men, what they thought and wrote about seapower, the fleets they created and the strategic consequences of what they did. More broadly, it draws on the respective...
Frank Cass, 2005. — 218 p. The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This is an...
Harper Luxe, 2016. — 320 p. On December 7, 1941, the Arizona was moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, alongside seven other American battleships. At 7:55 a.m., the leisurely Sunday morning’s serenity was broken by the drone of bomb-laden Japanese Zeros swooping from the sky. The Arizona was the first battleship targeted in a massive surprise attack by the Empire of Japan; 353...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 224 p. 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. Pushed back from the Philippines and the Netherlands' East Indies, American submariners, accompanied by a small group of Dutch forces, retreated to Fremantle as a last...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 248 p. World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese men-of-war and more than one...
Conway Maritime Press, 1996. — 187 p. История боевых линейных кораблей с начала XX века до наших дней. Справочник составлен по странам мира, на флотах которых на вооружении имелись линкоры. От Аргентины до США. История, фото, ТТХ всех линейных кораблей мира.
Naval Institute Press, 1990. — 56 p. This book included the interesting briefly descriptions of all major and great Naval Battles during time of the World War II: from River Plate (1939) and Narwik (1940) to allied invasion by Okinawa (1945) and Operation Barney (1945).
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 465 p. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 464 p. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In this...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 792 р. Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at...
Routledge, 2019. — 675 p. This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the...
Thunder Bay Press, 2002. — 262 p. The submarine revolutionized naval warfare, progressing from the crude, steam-driven craft of the American Civil War to the silent nuclear machines that can cruise for months underwater without surfacing -- only limited by the endurance of their crews -- and carry intercontinental missiles mounting multiple nuclear warheads. Submarines and...
Crown Publishing Group, 2007. — 332 p. Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. A pleasure to read from bow to stern. The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story of the legendary pirate who took on the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 192 p. This is the first book to examine of the concept of anti-access and area denial warfare. This type of strategy which is also referred to by acronym "A2/AD," has been identified in American strategic planning as the most likely strategies to be deployed by the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran in any future conflict...
Seafort Publishing, 2018. — 440 p. This new volume is intended to present a global vision of the development of the world's battleships. In a collection of chapters by international, the design, building, and career of a significant battleship from each of the world's navies is explored that illuminates not just the ships but also the communities of officers and individuals...
Naval War College Press, 2008. - 155 p. - (Newport Papers). In September 2005, fifty-five chiefs of navies and coast guards, along with twenty-seven war college presidents from around the world gathered in Newport for the Seventeenth International Seapower Symposium. We shared perspectives on a broad range of issues important to the global maritime community and individual...
Faber and Faber Limited, 2007. — 400 p. The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson’s navy and France. At stake was Britain’s commercial lifeline to India―and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. In bringing home Bengali saltpeter for the Peninsular campaign with military...
Deniz Basımevi, 1974. — 228 p. 1401-1867 yılları arasında Osmanlı donanmasının en üst kademedeki sorumlusu olan ve önceleri -16. yüzyılın ortalarına kadar- deryabeyi olarak da anılan Kaptan-ı Derya'ların (Kaptan Paşa) listesi aşağıdadır. Kaptan-ı Deryalık kurumu 1867'de kaldırılarak yerine Bahriye Nezareti ve Osmanlı Donanması donanma komutanlığı görevleri kurulmuştur. Kaptan-ı...
S. Low, Marston, Co. 1897. — 782 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
S. Low, Marston, Co., 1897. — 656 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
S. Low, Marston, Co., 1898. — 650 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
S. Low, Marston, Co., 1898. — 670 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
S. Low, Marston, Co., 1899. — 696 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
S. Low, Marston, Co., 1900. — 638 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
S. Low, Marston, Co., 1900. — 722 p. Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson.
American Free Press, 2016. — When one considers that thousands of books, articles, essays, documentaries and blockbuster films have been made concerning pivotal events in history such as Pearl Harbor and the assassination of JFK; at the same time we need to ask: why has no such attention toward the attack on the USS Liberty (June 8, 1967) taken place? After all, had the ship...
Pen and Sword Books, 1996. — 159 p. The first comprehensive guide to the fifty-seven nations that have had or intend to have submarines as part of their fighting force, this book presents in alphabetical order each of the world's navies with a summary of each country's submarine service. The history, description, and details of all insignia worn is given in depth and is...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. — 557 p. A Naval Survey. Rear-Admiral H. G. Thursfield. Naval Air Power. A Review. "' Volage ”. Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs . Reference Section . Changes in the Fleet in 1947. R J. Daniel, Esq 497. Miscellaneous . Abstract of Navy Estimates. First Lord’s Memorandum. White Paper on Defence. U.S.N. The Nimitz Report.
Naval Institute Press, 1984. — 373 p. - List of Figures - Preface - Introduction -- Science in War -- Operations Research: The Discipline The Group's Formative Years during World War II - The U-boat Menace - America's Early Antisubmarine Experience - Rallying America's Scientists - The Emergence of ASWORG - Sending Scientists to Naval Commands - Contact with the Army Air Forces...
Routledge, 2013. — 352 p. — (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History). This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region. The rise of naval capability in the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region is increasingly recognised as a major...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 143 p. This edited volume starts with an account of the submarine in naval warfare and moves on to review the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia by considering their acquisition by the small and medium navies of the region. It explores the reasons for these navies taking on this very substantial and demanding challenge, the...
Routledge, 2022. — 348 p. This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view. Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected, increasingly and profoundly maritime. The growing competition between China and Russia with the United States...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1982. — 284 p. An Introduction. A Review of the Literature. Sources and Elements. The Decisive Battle. Alternative Routes and Command of the Sea. The Exercise of Command. A New Environment for Navies? Old Tasks for New Navies. New Tasks for New Navies. A Survey of Present Practice.
Routledge, 2009. — 432 p. The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has been the basis for our prosperity and security. This is even more the case, now, in the early 21st century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalized world trading system. Navies have...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 162 p. Is naval global conflict in the Asia-Pacific becoming more likely? This edited volume explores the reasons for the naval build-up in the Asian region, and analyses its consequences.
Riverhead Books, 2010. — 368 p. The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean—the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas—and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam. It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone—if not for today's frightening headlines of robbery and kidnapping on the high seas....
Amberley Publishing, 2019. — 161 p. Two things made the battleship possible: the harnessing of steam for propulsion and Britain’s vast industrial power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With these two massive powerhouses available to ship designers, it was inevitable that change would come to the seas.For a short while France led the way with the launching...
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011. — 597 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-3930-6813-9. — Pacific War Trilogy. Volume I. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2011. — 656 p. The planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics—on both sides—illuminating the greatest naval war in history.On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway,...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2016. — 688 p. The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War―the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944―when parallel Allied counter-offensives north and south of the...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2020. — 944 p. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No tactical masterstroke or blunder could reverse the increasingly lopsided balance of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2004. — 608 p. Nineteen months before the D-day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 279 p. The Development of Strategic Purposes for Attack on Maritime Trade. World War I. The Belligerents’ Rights Dispute and the ‘New Mercantilism’. Trade Control and Blockade Between the Wars. World War II. Naval Blockade and Trade War Since 1945. General Conclusions.
The History Press, 2012. — 571 p. More than just a history of the real 'pirates of the Caribbean', Pirates: A History explores piracy from ancient times to the present day, from the bloodthirsty Viking raiders who terrorised northern Europe to the legendary female Chinese pirate of the 1920s, Lai Choi San. In this history we see how thin the line was between a royalty chartered...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 274 p. Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” work-horses of the fleet escorted countless...
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000. — 282 p. Great technological advances were made in almost every area of maritime military activity between 1793 and 1914. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Napoleonic wars marked the zenith of fighting sail and wooden hulls. By the dawn of the twentieth century, heavily armed iron-hulled warships, powered by oil-fired burners and driven...
Indiana University Press, 2009. — 329 p. Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944). Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls together all of the existing...
Routledge, 2004. — 392 p. Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters.However, the evidence for these appears to have been manipulated or simply invented. Classified documents and interviews point to covert Western, rather than Soviet activity. This is...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 256 p. This collection of popular naval stories covers the entire span of World War II, beginning when the British Royal Navy faced fascist forces on its own until the final Allied victory over the Japanese in 1945. Fight for the Sea offers a rich mixture of accounts about such large and well-known battles and operations as the Battle of the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2008. — 200 p. From the very outset of war Nazi Germany demonstrated its determination and ability to lay siege to the British Isles by the laying of mines in shipping lanes. Losses to both merchant ships and naval vessels became a serious factor. If supplies continued to be lost by a combination of U-Boat and mine attacks the very survival of the nation...
Tokyo: Military History Section. US, Far East Command, 1952. — 306 p. A document closely related to the work of JANAC, this English-language presentation shows the date and location of every known vessel lost or damaged, even damage to Japanese shipping. It also includes a breakdown of the organizational command rosters. Organization of the Japan fleets. Organization of the...
Stockholm: Bonniers Forlag, 1923. — 654 p. Классическая фундаментальная работа известного историка подробно исследует историю шведского королевского военно-морского флота с момента его создания в начале 16-го века и до конца 19-го века.
Editorial Planeta, 2011. — 152 p. El almirante Emilio Eduardo Massera se instaló en la memoria de los argentinos como una figura clave del pasado reciente, oscureciendo o iluminando alternativamente nuestro presente. Almirante Cero construyó su propio mito: por componer la biografía del jefe naval a cargo de la represión terrorista mediante la lógica política de la Escuela de...
I.B. Tauris, 2008. — 249 p. In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. The new ruler, the half-Irish Bernardo O'Higgins, threw his energies into creating a navy. Short of local naval manpower, the Chileans looked to Britain and the United States for the sailors needed to man and command their...
Editions Bouchène, 2016. — 174 p. Pendant plus de deux siècles. Algériens et Néerlandais s'affrontèrent en Méditerranée occidentale. Tout au long de deux siècles, et malgré de courtes périodes de paix, le conflit fut quasi permanent entre une puissance maritime qui s'acharnait à tenter de tirer tous les profits de la course, et une puissance commerciale qui cherchait...
Routledge, 2019. — 349 p. This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea;...
Second revised and expanded edition. — Frank Cass, 2003. — 356 p. Many books and articles have been written on wars in narrow seas. However, none deals in any comprehensive manner with the problems of strategy and conduct of naval operations. The aim of this book is to explain in some detail the characteristics of a war fought in narrow seas and to compare and contrast strategy...
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 464 p. In General Naval Tactics, Naval War College professor and renowned tactical expert Milan Vego describes and explains those aspects of naval tactics most closely related to the human factor. Specifically, he explains in some detail the objectives and methods/elements of tactical employment of naval forces, command and control,...
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 464 p. In General Naval Tactics, Naval War College professor and renowned tactical expert Milan Vego describes and explains those aspects of naval tactics most closely related to the human factor. Specifically, he explains in some detail the objectives and methods/elements of tactical employment of naval forces, command and control,...
Naval War College Press, 2016. — 318 p. Major Naval Pacific operations (during 1941-1945) represent an area of study of operational art that Western naval theoreticians and planners have generally neglected. Too much emphasis is given instead to advanced technologies and tactics of weapons, at the expense of combined-arms tactics. The absence of an immediate and serious threat at...
Naval War College Press, 2008. — 141 p. Major Naval operations are the principal methods by which naval forces achieve operational objectives in a conflict at sea. The U.S. Navy and other major Western navies planned and executed numerous major naval operations in World War II as part of maritime and, in several cases, land campaigns. Major naval operations have been conducted on...
Routledge, 2016. — 284 p. This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities, and...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. This new volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the theory and practice of operational warfare at sea. The book is unique in using diverse sources and examples to present a comprehensive topical description and analysis of the key components of operational warfare at sea today. It opens with a survey of the emergence of operational...
Hachette, 2021. — 352 p. In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were against them. But a devastating victory was won and...
Zenith Press, 2015. — 256 p. As close as you can get to the world's warship wrecks without getting your feet wet. Sunk by enemy fire, scuttled, or run aground, the number of World War II-era battleships, cruisers, submarines, and other warships that ended their service on the bottom of the world's oceans and seas is enormous. In the decades since the conflict, wreck hunters...
Greenwood, 2001. — 343 p. From the Thirteenth century through the Nineteenth, the waterways of the world provided the major means of transportation for exploration, trade, the military, and even criminals. Find out what life was like for those who chose to sail the high seas, as well as for those who didn't choose to be on board, like wives brought to sea by husbands and slaves en...
Casemate, 2022. — 352 p. A complete history of the prolonged and colossal conflict waged by the British and their subsequent American partners against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France in the Mediterranean and Middle East. For three millennia the Mediterranean Sea served as the center of western civilization and the scene of many colossal wars and naval...
Casemate, 2022. — 352 p. A complete history of the prolonged and colossal conflict waged by the British and their subsequent American partners against the combined forces of Italy, Germany and Vichy France in the Mediterranean and Middle East. For three millennia the Mediterranean Sea served as the center of western civilization and the scene of many colossal wars and naval...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 288 p. This action-packed biography focuses on a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who was one of only fifty Jewish midshipmen commissioned in his class during World War II. In the Pacific, Lt. Shulman s destroyer survived both a typhoon and a Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack. After leaving the U.S. Navy and returning to civilian life, he...
Grange books, 2000. — 104 p. — ISBN : 1-84013-365-1 The most famous and lethal vessels of World War II are highlighted in this full-color analysis of design, development and combat history. Complete with spec tables for each vessel offering details on: manufacturer, displacement, length, beam, propulsion, speed, armour, anti-aircraft guns, torpedoes, radar, aircraft,...
Littlehampton Book, 1969. — 304 p. Detailed accounts of some of the most famous and decisive Naval Battles in modern history - from Lepanto (1571) and Downes (1639) - to Midway (1942) and Leyte Gulf (1944).
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 257 p. What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War. It provides the overall political and economic context, assesses significant naval...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 192 p. The World Naval Review is designed to fill the need for an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 208 p. Launched in 2009, this annual is rapidly establishing a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest...
Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 192 p. This annual has rapidly established a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects,...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 192 p. Launched in 2009, this annual has rapidly established a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of developments in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important changes. Besides the latest warship projects, it...
Seafort Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. This annual has an established reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of...
Seafort Publishing, 2017. — 192 p. Now firmly established as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, this annual combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Features of this edition include an analysis of the Republic of Korea Navy and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 192 p. Now moving into its second decade, Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an affordable yet authoritative summary of global naval developments over the past twelve months. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-depth articles from a range of subject experts focusing on significant...
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 192 p. 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, combining regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of significance to...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 192 p. For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened to the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships and looks at wider issues of significance to navies such as aviation and weaponry. The...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 192 p. Now in its seventh year, this annual has established an international reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship...
Random House, 1962. — 224 p. It is the final year of World War II. Somewhere in the Pacific a United States submarine is prowling the sea, seeking an enemy to sink. The officer of the deck and a quartermaster stand on her bridge, binoculars at their eyes. Above them on the platform on either side of the periscope shears, two more sailors scan the horizon. Behind them the radar...
Follett Publishing Company, 1975. — 165 p. It's divided into six chapters: battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, escorts. Each chapter describes 2 to 10 representative ships of the type. The longest and most extensive chapter is on battleships: 10 ships and around 46 pages. Each chapter also contains a one-page tabulation of displacement, main...
Dundurn Press, 2006. — 288 p. The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century fills an important void in the history of Canada's navy. Those who carry the burden of high command have a critical niche in not only guiding the day-to-day concerns of running an armed service but in ensuring that it is ready to face the challenges of the future. Canada's...
Routledge, 2016. — 190 p. Since its publication in 1911, Sir Julian's Corbett's Some Principles of Maritime Strategy has remained a key document within naval strategic thinking. Yet despite his undoubted influence, Corbett's theories have not been subjected to scientific review and systematic comparison with other naval thinkers. In this assessment, Dr Widen has provided a...
Basic Books, 2004. — 336 p. What history calls the "Battle of the Atlantic" was really a full-scale war-within-a-war, fought from the beginning of hostilities in 1939 to the moment of cease-fire in 1945. Andrew Williams focuses on the first four years of this bitter conflict, during which time German submarines sank an astounding twelve million tons of Allied shipping. The...
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. Behind the scenes during the Second World War, agreements were negotiated for the safe exchange and repatriation of wounded or gravely ill prisoners, 'Protected Personnel', diplomats, civilians and alien internees, a little-known dimension of the war. Conducted under the oversight of the International Red Cross and through neutral...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 384 p. In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates or 'corsairs' based in ports such as Malta and Algiers. It was also a war of unequal...
The Boydell Press, 2008. — 274 p. Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; our knowledge of tactics is largely based upon the ideas of contemporary...
Quercus Publishing, 2011. — 320 p. On 1 June 1794, after a week of skirmishing, the French and British fleets came to close quarters in the northwest Atlantic, some 400 miles off the coast of Brittany. No battle had ever been fought so far from land. The French, in ships painted blood-red and bearing banners proclaiming 'la République ou la mort!' were escorting a American...
W.W. Norton Company, 2016. — 573 p. A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety,...
Indiana University Press, 2009. — 568 p. The transition to modern war at sea began during the period of the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Spanish-American War (1898) and was propelled forward rapidly by the advent of the dreadnought and the nearly continuous state of war that culminated in World War I. By 1922, most of the elements that would define sea power in the...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 704 p. In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts―the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the seas, Great Britain saw its supremacy weakened through neglect and in the face of more...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 704 p. In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts―the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the seas, Great Britain saw its supremacy weakened through neglect and in the face of more...
New York, Routledge Group, 2004. — 452 p. This A-Z biographical guide covers the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Featuring influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators, it is an invaluable guide to those who...
Boydell and Brewer, 2021. — 312 p. This book charts the surge and decline in piracy in the early eighteenth century (the so-called "Golden Age" of piracy), exploring the ways in which pirates encountered, obstructed, and antagonised the diverse participants of the British empire in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, and the Indian Ocean. The book's primary focus is on how...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series) — xxi, 235 p. ; 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour. - Fits neatly into a burgeoning field of naval history that looks beyond traditional narratives - Includes a selection of leading scholars in relevant fields - Brings together and synthesises a series of contrasting case...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — xxi, 235 p. ; 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series). Fits neatly into a burgeoning field of naval history that looks beyond traditional narratives Includes a selection of leading scholars in relevant fields Brings together and synthesises a series of contrasting case studies...
Autonomedia, 2003. — 210 p. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Moslem corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors Renegadoes? Or did they abandon and...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 512 p. The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester For thousands of years the Atlantic Ocean was viewed by mariners with a mixture of awe, terror and amazement -- an impassable barrier to the unknown. In recent times, as we fly high above it without so much as bothering to look down, this vast sea has been...
Chatham Press, 1997. — 150 p. By the end of the sailing era the 50-gun ship had come to be regarded as a hybrid--too small to stand in the line of battle, but lacking the speed and handiness of the frigate--so was often dismissed as a naval architectural dinosaur left over from an earlier age. This prejudiced view has gone unchallenged in modern naval history, but this new book...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 228 p. To Great Britain and Germany, the Battle of the Denmark Strait came like a thunderclap in the spring of 1941. The pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, was utterly destroyed, and its newest battleship, Prince of Wales, severely damaged and forced to withdraw. This was at the hands of Germany's huge battleship Bismarck, on its first foray into...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 241 p. A remarkable history of unorthodox naval weapons and strategies from the days of the Ancient Greeks to the end of World War Two. From Phormio to Nelson to Mountbatten, naval strategists have sought to gain the upper hand against their opponents by utilising new weapons and unusual tactics. Fireships, midget submarines, armour plating, mines, along...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents. The dramatic accounts--including those of a British sailor who survived 133 days at sea on an open raft and a German sailor who spent 28 hours in the ocean without a life preserver--are based on a wide...
Greenhill Books, 2006. — 124 p. Despite the apparent dominance of gunnery, in the age of sail sea fights were often concluded by boarding actions - desperate and bloody hand-to-hand melees where edged weapons rather than firearms were the deciding factor. The particular needs of naval close-quarter combat produced distinctive versions of axes, pikes and cutlasses (not to...
Independently Publishing, 2020. — 43 p. Battle of Midway, is the most glorified naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II lasted for 4 days from 4th to 7th June 1942 after the battle of Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese Navy had not lost a naval battle in more than 50 years, and had nearly destroyed the American fleet just six months earlier in a surprise attack on...
Casemate Publishers, 2007. — 560 p. During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is now well known, but few are aware of the courage, determination and sacrifice of Allied merchant ships, which withstood unremitting...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. — 240 p. Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf—the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on...
Routledge, 2019. — 534 p. First published in 1935, in this volume E.L. Woodward reconstructs with his usual painstaking industry the various phases of Anglo-German naval relations from the enactment of the German navy laws of 1898-1900 to the months of the apparent détente just before the outbreak of war in 1914. The principle documentary collections have been carefully...
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. — 308 p. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) marked the end of the battleship as the centerpiece weapon of the U.S. Navy in the future, the aircraft carrier would be the star of the fleet. In this oral history edited by Wooldridge, Ramsey Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum, we see how Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's flyers learned to...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 198 p. Control of the sea was a crucial element in the outcome of World War II. The U-boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were vital in keeping Russia in the war; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; the battle of Midway was one of the key turning points in the war. Allied...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 224 p. Control of the sea was a crucial element in the outcome of World War II. The U-boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were vital in keeping Russia in the war; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; the battle of Midway was one of the key turning points in the war. Allied...
The History Press, 2014. — 288 р. — ISBN 978-0752489223. Long-awaited, the Normandy landings were the largest amphibious operation in history. Success was achieved by the advent of specialised landing craft – first seen in the landings in North Africa – heavy naval firepower and the creation of two artificial harbours, each the size of the port of Dover, and an underwater...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 224 p. Without the aircraft carrier, the Japanese would not have brought the United States into the Second World War through their attack on Pearl Harbour; without the carrier, the United States could not have rolled back the Japanese forces spread across the wide reaches of the Pacific and carried the war to Japan itself. Thus is can be argued that aircraft...
Pen and Sword Books, 2007. — 224 p. A history-defining moment in World War II, when the allied nations of England and France stood on the precipice of betrayal—and war with each other. After the forces of Nazi Germany launched their Blitzkrieg assault on Holland, Belgium, and Northern France, the tentative relationship between Great Britain and France was strained to the limit....
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 349 p. To the US Navy they were CVEs! To the Royal Navy auxiliary carriers! To crews of endangered merchantmen in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans they were heaven-sent protection! To their crews they were Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable! The need for air cover against enemy aircraft and submarines brought unprecedented demand for carriers. Over 100...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 207 p. The Pacific Naval War 1941-1945 is an account of the war between the Allies and the Japanese. This was primarily a naval war as sea power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards, and it was sea power that enabled the Allies to strike back and even take the war to Japan itself....
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. In a last, desperate bid to stave off defeat, Japan's High Command launched the terrifying kamikaze attacks. This fully illustrated book examines Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice. Fully illustrated throughout, Desperate Sunset examines the development and evolution of the kamikaze using first-hand accounts, combat reports, and archived...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. — 233 p. Asia is headed toward an uncertain and potentially volatile future in the maritime arena. The two rising Asian powers, China and India, dependent as they are on seaborne commerce for their economic well-being, have clearly set their eyes on the high seas. Yoshihara and Holmes offer a stark warning that many strategists in Beijing and...
Yusof Ishak Institute Press, 2007. — 170 p. The author has done a great job linking historical and cultural influences on today's maritime security challenges. He points out that often the Western media (or Western historical documents and journals) will have a tendency to fit what they see into what they understand. For instance. piracy may not necessarily be the best...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 224 p. A research analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses offers a rare historical account of the Royal and U.S. Navies' involvement in one of the greatest amphibious assaults of modern history. It is a story of cooperation and, at times, discord, between the two navies as they planned the naval portion of the Allied invasion of Normandy. With...
Sprea, 2021. — 132 p. Probabilmente le imbarcazioni che parteciparono a questa battaglia non erano ancora vere e proprie navi da guerra, ma comuni mezzi per la navigazione fuviale e costiera, e gli uomini combattevano sul mare nello stesso modo in cui avrebbero lottato sulla terraferma, usando i loro vascelli come piattaforme per uno scontro corpo a corpo preceduto dal tiro di...
СПб.: Морской Региональный Центр; Иванов и Лещинский, 1995. — 80 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-86467-020-0. Маленький скалистый остров Утэ. На востоке - устье Финского залива, на севере - Або-Оландские шхеры. С острова хорошо просматриваются фарватеры, ведущие в Ботнический залив и финский порт Або. Немало боевых кораблей прошло здесь в разные годы. Трудным было плавание в этих местах, но...
СПб: Типография Усманова, 1910. — 68 с.: 7 политипий и 6 чертежей В книге впервые проводится попытка исследования вопроса о подводных минных заграждениях в начале 20-го века. От автора: "'Исследование наше мы делим на две части: техническую и тактическую. В первой мы постараемся дать возможно полную картину современной техники подводного минного дела, а во второй части мы...
Сокращённый перевод с английского Р. Гельфонд. — Москва; Ленинград : Военмориздат НКВМФ СССР, 1939. — 112 с. Книга знакомит читателей с методами и приемами работы военно-морской разведывательной службы капиталистических стран в Первой мировой войне 1914-1918 гг. В книге приведен целый ряд примеров из деятельности военно-морских разведок: английской, русской, германской и др....
Редакция журнала «Техника - молодежи» и ООО «Восточный горизонт, 2004. — 100 с. — (Флот). — ISBN: 3-93848-008-6 Появление этого корабля вызвало шок в военно-морских кругах всех стран. Ещё бы - новый линкор настолько превосходил любого из своих собратьев, что все многочисленные броненосные эскадры впору было пускать на слом - они мгновенно устарели. Стало ясно: в военном...
Редакция журнала «Техника - молодежи» и ООО «Восточный горизонт, 2004. — 100 с. — (Флот). — ISBN: 3-93848-008-6 Появление этого корабля вызвало шок в военно-морских кругах всех стран. Ещё бы - новый линкор настолько превосходил любого из своих собратьев, что все многочисленные броненосные эскадры впору было пускать на слом - они мгновенно устарели. Стало ясно: в военном...
ЗАО "Редакция журнала "Техника - молодежи" и ООО "Восточный горизонт", 2003. — 96 с. — (Флот). — ISBN: 5-93848-009-4 Вторая часть книги Сергея Балакина и Владимира Кофмана, посвященной линейным кораблям XX века. Издание прекрасно иллюстрировано, в тексте большое количество качественных цветных и черно-белых иллюстраций, схем и чертежей. Содержание: Итоги "кораблестроительных...
М.: Редакция журнала "Техника - молодежи"; Восточный горизонт, 2003. — 96 с. — (Флот). — ISBN: 5-93848-009-4. Вторая часть книги Сергея Балакина и Владимира Кофмана, посвященной линейным кораблям XX века. Издание прекрасно иллюстрировано, в тексте большое количество качественных цветных и черно-белых иллюстраций, схем и чертежей. Содержание: Итоги "кораблестроительных каникул"....
М.: Евразия, 2014. — 592 с.
В книге рассматриваются процесс возникновения и эволюция римского регулярного флота, а также его роль в структуре вооруженных сил сначала Римской, а в последующем и Византийской империи. После победы Рима над всеми крупными морскими державами Средиземноморья его флот лишь в слабой степени принимал участие в расширении и поддержании римского...
М.: Евразия, 2014. — 592 с.: илл.— ISBN 978-5-91852-078-9. В книге рассматриваются процесс возникновения и эволюция римского регулярного флота, а также его роль в структуре вооруженных сил сначала Римской, а в последующем и Византийской империи. После победы Рима над всеми крупными морскими державами Средиземноморья его флот лишь в слабой степени принимал участие в расширении и...
СПб.: Полигон, 2003. — 312 с.: ил.
Книга посвящена истории военно-морских флагов и является первой работой такого рода, написанной в расчете на массового читателя. Многие флаги имеют очень интересную судьбу, изучением которой занимается вспомогательная историческая дисциплина — вексиллология. Увы, издания по данной тематике, как правило, ориентированы на узкий круг...
СПб.: Полигон, 2003. — 312 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-85173-239-4. Книга посвящена истории военно-морских флагов и является первой работой такого рода, написанной в расчете на массового читателя. Многие флаги имеют очень интересную судьбу, изучением которой занимается вспомогательная историческая дисциплина — вексиллология. Увы, издания по данной тематике, как правило, ориентированы на...
Москва-Ленинград: Государственное издательство, 1929. — 211 с.
Настоящий труд В. Белли "Борьба за Тихий океан", обладая всеми качествами нового очередного исследования Тихоокеанской проблемы в свете последних китайских событий, представляет, кроме того, самостоятельную ценность, включая в себе тщательно и обьективно проработанный анализ конкретной стратегической обстановки на...
Нижний Новгород : Нижполиграф, 1995. — 319 с. Книга о героическом участии волгарей в транспортном обеспечении боевых действий и победе над врагом на Волге в 1942-1943 гг. в период Сталинградской битвы.
Монография. — Москва: Эксмо, 2011. — 319 с. Главная книга ведущего историка флота. Самый полемический и парадоксальный взгляд на развитие ВМС в XX веке. Опровержение самых расхожих «военно-морских» мифов – например, знаете ли вы, что вопреки рассказам очевидцев японцы в Цусимском сражении стреляли реже, чем русские, а наибольшие потери британскому флоту во время Фолклендской...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2013. — 305 p. — ISBN: 978-5-699-65602-8.
XX столетие стало не только авиакосмической эрой, но и веком военно-морского флота - именно ВМФ по праву считается самым высокотехнологичным видом вооруженных сил. Эта книга - настоящая энциклопедия ВМФ XX века, глубокий анализ законов его развития и прогноз на будущее. Издание иллюстрировано сотнями эксклюзивных...
Москва: Эксмо, 2011. — 354 с. Новая военно-морская серия. Новая книга ведущего историка флота. Все о развитии одного из основных классов боевых кораблей на протяжении трех столетий — с указа короля Якова Стюарта «О крейсерах и конвоях», датированного 1708 годом, и парусных фрегатов XIX века до российских ракетных крейсеров проекта 1144, получивших почетное прозвище «убийцы...
М.: Эксмо, 2011. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-46576-7. Новая военно-морская серия. Новая книга ведущего историка флота. Всё о развитии одного из основных классов боевых кораблей на протяжении трех столетий - с указа короля Якова Стюарта –«О крейсерах и конвоях», датированного 1708 годом, и паруемых фрегатов XIX века до российских ракетных крейсеров проекта 1104, получивших...
Москва, Яуза, ISBN: 978-5-699-40850-4, Год: 2010, Страниц: 386 Новая книга от автора бестселлера "Дуэли авианосцев"! Лучшее исследование ведущего историка флота, которое при всем своем профессионализме читается как захватывающий авантюрный роман! Невероятные приключения и превращения линейного корабля на протяжении четырех столетий - от деревянных парусников до закованных в...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 202 c. Тактико-технические характеристики 490 боевых кораблей эпохи и 97 корабельных артиллерийских систем, описание всех морских сражений и рейдерских операций самого бурного десятилетия в истории флота, рассказ о том, как появились первые броненосцы, первые крейсера, миноносцы и подводные лодки – все в одной книге о военных кораблях в переломный...
Монография. — СПб.: Инфо-да, 2014. — 283 с. В монографии, являющейся продолжением изданной в 2005 г. работы «Морское минное оружие: история создания и боевого применения до 1877 г.» (издательство «Инфо-да», Санкт-Петербург) с системных позиций излагается развитие морских мин, особенности и результаты минной войны и противоминных действий на море, организация минного дела на...
СПб.: Инфо-да, 2005. — 284 с. — ISBN: 5-94652-121-7. В монографии с позиций системного подхода впервые за последние десятилетия в таком объёме рассмотрена эволюция морского минного оружия от истоков до 1877 г. Показано зарождение и развитие спроса на водные мины, влияние на этот процесс неравномерности развития военных флотов, достижений науки, технологий, кораблестроения,...
Центр стратегической конъюнктуры. — М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2016. — 52 с. — ISBN: 978–5–93883–294–7. Последние два десятилетия Китай демонстрирует высокие темпы оснащения своих вооруженных сил новой техникой. Этот процесс cочетает значительные масштабы производства со стремлением обеспечить НОАК современными системами, разработанными на уровне лучших мировых образцов. Одно...
Изографус, Нижегородское Книжное Издательство, Эксмо-Пресс, 2002. — 432 с.
Работа известного британского военно-морского историка посвящена событиям Первой мировой войны. Достаточно сжато и в тоже время весьма достоверно автор описывает боевые действия на море в 1914—1918 годах. Для англичанина Херберта Риглея Вильсона (1866-1940) наибольший интерес, конечно же, представляют...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича. — СПб.: Тип. Э. Гоппе, 1893 — 373 c. В изданиях 1891 и 1892 годов были описаны боевые суда всех государств. В этом издании - описания сведены к минимуму и представлены в основном табличные данные по военным флотам и коммерческим судам со скоростью хода более 12 узлов. В 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1907-1908...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича лейт. И. В. Будиловский. — СПб.: Тип. Э. Гоппе, 1895. — 791 c. Военно-морской справочник по кораблям и судам мира. Все военные корабли мира существовавшие или строившиеся в 1895 году. Список коммерческих судов со скоростью более 12 узлов. Военно-морские бюджеты крупнейших стран с постатейной росписью. Сведения...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича лейт. И. В. Будиловский. — Спб.: Тип. Э. Гоппе, 1897 — 1218 c. Военно-морской справочник по кораблям и судам мира. Все военные корабли мира существовавшие или строившиеся в 1895 году. Список коммерческих судов со скоростью более 12 узлов. Военно-морские бюджеты крупнейших стран с постатейной росписью. Сведения...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича лейт. И. В. Будиловский. — Спб.: Тип. Э. Гоппе, 1899 — 1278 c. Военно-морской справочник по кораблям и судам мира. Все военные корабли мира существовавшие или строившиеся в 1895 году. Список коммерческих судов со скоростью более 12 узлов. Военно-морские бюджеты крупнейших стран с постатейной росписью. Сведения...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича лейт. И. В. Будиловский. — Спб.: Тип. А. Бенке , 1901 — 1078 c. Военно-морской справочник по кораблям и судам мира. Все военные корабли мира существовавшие или строившиеся в 1901 году. Список коммерческих судов со скоростью более 12 узлов. Военно-морские бюджеты крупнейших стран с постатейной росписью. Сведения...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича лейт. И. В. Будиловский. — Спб.: Тип. А. Бенке , 1906 — 1088 c. Военно-морской справочник по кораблям и судам мира. Все военные корабли мира существовавшие или строившиеся в 1906 году. 198 профилей судов; около 100 фотографий; подробное описание тактико-технических хар. судов 20 стран, включая Россию;...
Сост. под лич. наблюдением е. и. в. вел. кн. Александра Михайловича лейт. И. В. Будиловский. — Спб.: Тип. А. Бенке, 1909 — 821 c. Список коммерческих судов со скоростью более 12 узлов. Военно-морские бюджеты крупнейших стран с постатейной росписью. Сведения о состоянии военных флотов всего мира, о русском флоте с 1892 г. Списки боевых кораблей (по государствам) с основными...
Военная литература, 2006. — 176 с. В середине XIX столетия в мире осталось немного мест, где бы не сталкивались французские и британские интересы — торговые, колониальные, религиозные. И благодаря своей военно-морской мощи эти две державы обеспечивали эти интересы везде, куда могли дотянуться их военные корабли. Крымская война дала британскому и французскому военно-морским...
М.: Военно-морское издательство РКВМФ СССР, 1939. – 228 с.
Основной интерес книги заключается в том, что понятие об устройстве корабля, боевой организации и тактике преподносятся авторами в увлекательной и художественной форме. В книге дан обстоятельный разбор и оценка флотов США и Японии.
Москва : Эксмо : Яуза, 2019. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-04-098439-8. Эсминцы принимали участие практически во всех значительных сражениях на всех морских театрах военных действий 1939—1945 гг. Они сопровождали конвои, охотились за подводными лодками и даже атаковали торпедами надводные корабли (парадоксально, но таких случаев во Вторую мировую было гораздо чаще, чем в Первую),...
Москва : Эксмо : Яуза, 2019. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-04-098439-8. Эсминцы принимали участие практически во всех значительных сражениях на всех морских театрах военных действий 1939—1945 гг. Они сопровождали конвои, охотились за подводными лодками и даже атаковали торпедами надводные корабли (парадоксально, но таких случаев во Вторую мировую было гораздо чаще, чем в Первую),...
Дашьян А.В., Патянин С.В., Токарев М.Ю., Балакин С.А., Кофман В.Л. М: Эксмо: Яуза, 2009. — 386 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-51001-6. Не успела закончиться Вторая Мировая война, а специалисты уже заявили о «закате» и даже «свержении» Его Величества Линкора, на смену которому пришел новый «Владыка морей» — авианосец. Хотя линейные корабли продолжали считаться становым хребтом и главной...
Дашьян А.В., Патянин С.В., Токарев М.Ю., Балакин С.А., Кофман В.Л. М: Эксмо: Яуза, 2009. — 386 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-51001-6. Не успела закончиться Вторая Мировая война, а специалисты уже заявили о «закате» и даже «свержении» Его Величества Линкора, на смену которому пришел новый «Владыка морей» — авианосец. Хотя линейные корабли продолжали считаться становым хребтом и главной...
М.: Коллекция, Яуза, Эксмо, 2009. — 612 с.: ил. — (Война на море). Дашьян А. В., Патянин С. В., Митюков Н. В., Барабанов М. С., Иванов В. В., Гайдук А. А. Вторую мировую войну с точки зрения стратегии без преувеличений можно назвать морской войной - практически ни одна ее кампания в той или иной степени не обходилась без участия флота. Этим Вторая мировая разительно отличалась...
М.: Коллекция, Яуза, Эксмо, 2009. — 612 с.: ил. — (Война на море). — ISBN: 978-5-699-33872-6.
Вторую мировую войну с точки зрения стратегии без преувеличений можно назвать морской войной — практически ни одна её кампания в той или иной степени не обходилась без участия флота. Этим Вторая мировая разительно отличалась от Первой, судьба которой решалась на суше, а флоты играли...
М.: Эксмо, 2013. — 536 с. — (Всеобщая энциклопедия флота). — ISBN: 978-5-699-68143-3. "Окончательное" издание, полностью закрывающее тему! Самая полная и авторитетная энциклопедия крейсеров Второй Мировой, как великих морских держав (Великобритании, США, Японии, Франции, Италии, Третьего Рейха, СССР), так и второстепенных флотов (Аргентины, Бразилии, Греции, Испании,...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза. 2013. — 416 с. — (Всеобщая энциклопедия флота). — ISBN: 978-5699666164. Новая военно-морская серия, не имеющая себе равных! Это не просто очередное переиздание культового бестселлера, а его глубокая радикальная модернизация! Впервые в цвете! Вдвое больше эксклюзивных схем, чертежей и фотографий! Увеличенный коллекционный формат, элитная полиграфия, мелованная...
М: Эксмо, Яуза, 2011г - 392стр В данном издании представлена подробная информация обо всех без исключения линейных кораблях всех стран, участвовавших в боевых действиях, - не только великих морских держав, но и второстепенных флотов Аргентины, Бразилии, Турции и Чили. Эта книга - самая полная энциклопедия линкоров Второй Мировой, от "карманного" "Дойчланда" до гигантского "Ямато",...
М: Эксмо, Яуза, 2011г - 392стр В данном издании представлена подробная информация обо всех без исключения линейных кораблях всех стран, участвовавших в боевых действиях, - не только великих морских держав, но и второстепенных флотов Аргентины, Бразилии, Турции и Чили. Эта книга - самая полная энциклопедия линкоров Второй Мировой, от "карманного" "Дойчланда" до гигантского "Ямато",...
Санкт-Петербург, 1992. — 112 с.
Предлагаемая книга является первой попыткой исследовать и систематизировать 28 случаев гибели и повреждений кораблей основных классов после 1945 года.
М. : Яуза : Эксмо, 2011. — 384 с.: ил. — (ВМФ. Подлинная история войны на море). — ISBN 978-5-699-49956-4 Оценка нашего послевоенного подводного флота до сих пор остается одним из самых спорных и «темных» вопросов истории — в большинстве исследований на данную тему наблюдается явный «обличительный уклон». Почитать некоторых авторов, так во второй половине XX века вся служба...
М. : Яуза : Эксмо, 2011. — 384 с.: ил. — (ВМФ. Подлинная история войны на море). — ISBN 978-5-699-49956-4 Оценка нашего послевоенного подводного флота до сих пор остается одним из самых спорных и «темных» вопросов истории — в большинстве исследований на данную тему наблюдается явный «обличительный уклон». Почитать некоторых авторов, так во второй половине XX века вся служба...
Петроград: Типография Морского Комиссариата, 1922. — 38 с. Стремление посильно отвечать в своих "очерках" на очередные вопросы строительства Красного Флота — заставляет меня настоящий "очерк" посвятить вопросу "О дисциплине", отложив вопрос о подготовке командного состава Флота до следующего очерка...
Dtfm pub, 2023. — 55 с. Боевая галера — уникальное явление, которое могло существовать только на Средиземном море. Хотя галеры иногда могли появляться в Атлантике, а на Балтике существовала вполне самостоятельная традиция строительства галер. Средиземноморская боевая галера восходит к боевой триреме античных греков и биреме древних римлян. Позднее на конструкцию галеры заметное...
Москва; Ленинград: Государственное социально-экономическое издательство, 1936. — 300 с. Настоящая книга ставит своей задачей ознакомления наших читателей с соперничеством равных империалистических держав в области морских вооружений. Давая полный обобщенный материал и характеристику морской политики каждой из этих держав, она особое место уделяет морской политике Японии,...
Коллектив авторов. — М.: Вече, 2020. — (Наука побеждать). Книга является переизданием учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В ней рассказывается о главных морских сражениях в ходе важнейших европейских войн XIX века. Немалое место в книге уделено участию России в Наполеоновских войнах,...
Коллектив авторов. — М.: Вече, 2020. — (Наука побеждать). Книга является переизданием учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В ней рассказывается о главных морских сражениях в ходе важнейших европейских войн XIX века. Немалое место в книге уделено участию России в Наполеоновских войнах,...
Коллектив авторов. — М.: Вече, 2020. — (Наука побеждать). Книга является переизданием третьего тома учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В настоящем издании рассказывается о военно-морских сражениях двух важнейших военных конфликтов начала XX века – Русско-японской войне 1904–1905 гг....
Коллектив авторов. — М.: Вече, 2020. — (Наука побеждать). Книга является переизданием третьего тома учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В настоящем издании рассказывается о военно-морских сражениях двух важнейших военных конфликтов начала XX века – Русско-японской войне 1904–1905 гг....
Коллектив авторов. — М.: Вече, 2020. — (Наука побеждать). Книга является переизданием первого тома учебного пособия, предназначавшегося для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В книге освещены важнейшие морские войны и сражения нескольких исторических эпох – от античности до XVIII века. Детально...
СПб.: Галея-Принт, 2008. — 128 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0126-0. История боевых кораблей, выполнявших в составе военно-морских флотов большинства стран достаточно широкий круг задач — от дальней разведки до участия в генеральных сражениях. Подробно прослеживается процесс зарождения этого класса кораблей, его развитие в странах Европы, Азии и Америки, приведшее к созданию...
СПб.: Галея-Принт, 2008. — 128 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0126-0. История боевых кораблей, выполнявших в составе военно-морских флотов большинства стран достаточно широкий круг задач — от дальней разведки до участия в генеральных сражениях. Подробно прослеживается процесс зарождения этого класса кораблей, его развитие в странах Европы, Азии и Америки, приведшее к созданию...
СПб.: Галея-Принт, 2008. — 172 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0134-5. История боевых кораблей, выполнявших в составе военно-морских флотов большинства стран достаточно широкий круг задач — от дальней разведки до участия в генеральных сражениях. Подробно прослеживается процесс зарождения этого класса кораблей, его развитие в странах Европы, Азии и Америки, приведшее к созданию...
СПб.: Галея-Принт, 2008. — 172 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0134-5. История боевых кораблей, выполнявших в составе военно-морских флотов большинства стран достаточно широкий круг задач — от дальней разведки до участия в генеральных сражениях. Подробно прослеживается процесс зарождения этого класса кораблей, его развитие в странах Европы, Азии и Америки, приведшее к созданию...
Книга, Санкт-Петербург, "Галея Принт", 2005г., 132 стр.
Одиссея вице-адмирала М. Шпее
Предтеча Перл-Харбора
Роковые крейсера Британии
Боевые рекорды подплава
Сражение в Норвежском море
М.: Астрель; СПб.: Полигон, 2010. — 672 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-25829-9.
Данная книга посвящена истории кораблей от гребного флота Древнего мира до современных кораблей. В ней рассказывается о великих флотоводцах, кораблестроителях и мореплавателях всех эпох и народов, об открытиях, изменявших конструкцию боевых кораблей и влиявших на развитие искусства ведения морского боя. Книга...
М.: Астрель; СПб.: Полигон, 2010. — 672 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-25829-9. Данная книга посвящена истории кораблей от гребного флота Древнего мира до современных кораблей. В ней рассказывается о великих флотоводцах, кораблестроителях и мореплавателях всех эпох и народов, об открытиях, изменявших конструкцию боевых кораблей и влиявших на развитие искусства ведения морского боя. Книга...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2015. — 176 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-80559-4. Эта война, 120-летие которой отмечается в нынешнем году, стала прологом русско-японского конфликта. В ожесточенных сражениях при Ялу и Взихайвзе модернизированная Япония одержала свои первые победы на море, а китайские броненосцы потерпели сокрушительное поражение. Почему был вынужден отступить Бэйянский флот,...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2015. — 176 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-80559-4. Эта война, 120-летие которой отмечается в нынешнем году, стала прологом русско-японского конфликта. В ожесточенных сражениях при Ялу и Взихайвзе модернизированная Япония одержала свои первые победы на море, а китайские броненосцы потерпели сокрушительное поражение. Почему был вынужден отступить Бэйянский флот,...
М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 240 с. — (Военная история человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-699-28037-7. Пираты, буканьеры, флибустьеры и приватиры - безжалостные разбойники, свирепствовавшие на морских просторах на протяжении нескольких столетий. Биографии знаменитых буканьеров и пиратов - Генри Моргана, Олонэ, Бартоломью Робертса, Кидда и других, их кровавые злодеяния и "подвиги", вызывающие...
Москва: Транспорт, 1989. — 159 с. — ISBN 5-277-00592-7. Книга посвящена интересной и мало изученной теме - названиям кораблей. В живой форме рассказывается об истории и происхождении названий, приводится расшифровка многих загадочных имен, раскрываются истоки номинации судов, системы названий, которые сложились в русском и советском флоте. Кто давал имена кораблям? Как и когда...
М.: Воениздат, 1937. — 48 с. В книге даётся описание общего устройства торпедного катера, его вооружения и боевых свойств. Попутно автор кратко освещает путь развития катера, начиная с паровых шлюпок, минных катеров и кончая торпедными катерами современных образцов. Отдельные эпизоды из истории морских войн прошлого, а также последней мировой империалистической войны 1914-1918...
СПб, тип. Морского Министерства, 1887. - 807 с.
Издававшееся в России периодическое издание, содержавшее в себе официальную (приказы по Морскому Министерству, награждения, законы и постановления, отчёты о плаваниях судов, отчёты эмеритальной кассы) и неофициальную (описания иностранных флотов и отдельных российских и иностранных судов и кораблей, рассуждения о тактике и морском...
М.: Яуза, 2015. — 448 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-84344-2. Такого издания еще не было - ни у нас в России, ни на Западе! Максимум, что вы найдете за рубежом, — это отдельные книги по германским и британским крейсерам Первой Мировой. Но полной иллюстрированной энциклопедии, представляющей сведения обо всех без исключения кораблях этого класса семнадцати стран-участниц Великой войны, вы...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2020. — 436 с. Книга Федора Лисицына – это подробный рассказ о броненосцах-участниках Первой мировой войны. Появившись после Крымской войны, броненосцы надолго стали становым хребтом всех флотов мира. Это были прямые наследники гордых, многопалубных парусных линейных кораблей, высшая концентрация военно-морской мощи. Стремительно развиваясь, броненосцы...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 332 с.
Два раза за десяток лет Военно-морской флот США преодолевал океаны, чтобы участвовать в войнах. Вернувшись, моряки рассказывали о морских и воздушных битвах. Стали известными битвы кораблей и подводных лодок. Сейчас же настала очередь узнать об одной из самых малоизвестных частей войны – минной войне.
В этой войне соперники практически не...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. – 137 с. Рассказ о минной войне на море - наименее известной стороне периода Второй мировой войны. Автор правдиво повествует о суровых буднях моряков минных тральщиков и заградителей. Об их ежедневных подвигах и о трудном пути к победе мало кто знал и говорил. Экипажам небольших кораблей приходилось воевать в опасных водах, при плохой погоде, под...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. – 137 с. Рассказ о минной войне на море - наименее известной стороне периода Второй мировой войны. Автор правдиво повествует о суровых буднях моряков минных тральщиков и заградителей. Об их ежедневных подвигах и о трудном пути к победе мало кто знал и говорил. Экипажам небольших кораблей приходилось воевать в опасных водах, при плохой погоде, под...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. – 137 с.
Рассказ о минной войне на море - наименее известной стороне периода Второй мировой войны. Автор правдиво повествует о суровых буднях моряков минных тральщиков и заградителей. Об их ежедневных подвигах и о трудном пути к победе мало кто знал и говорил. Экипажам небольших кораблей приходилось воевать в опасных водах, при плохой погоде, под...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. – 137 с.
Рассказ о минной войне на море - наименее известной стороне периода Второй мировой войны. Автор правдиво повествует о суровых буднях моряков минных тральщиков и заградителей. Об их ежедневных подвигах и о трудном пути к победе мало кто знал и говорил. Экипажам небольших кораблей приходилось воевать в опасных водах, при плохой погоде, под...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Воениздат, 1956. — 510 с. Описание операций американского и японского флотов во 2-ой Мировой войне на Тихоокеанском ТВД. Содержание Планирование японцами морских операций. Нападение японцев на Пёрл-Харбор, планирование и выполнение. Вторжение японцев на Филиппинские острова, в Голландскую Индию и Юго-Восточную Азию. Сражение в Коралловом море. Сражение у о....
М.: Пионер, 1993. — 34 с.
Среди морских разбойников было много ярких, самобытных личностей. Так, например, английский морской разбойник Уолтер Рэли приобрел громкую известность, как один из образованнейших людей своего времени. Пират Уильям Дампир был автором научного труда с собственноручно выполненными навигационными картами. В этой маленькой книге описаны оружие и корабли...
М.; Л.: Гос. воен.-мор. изд., 1941. — X, 439 с. Оглавление Предисловие Введение Глава I. Элементы морского могущества Глава II. Состояние Европы в 1660 г. — Вторая англо-голландская война (1665 — 1667). — Морские сражения: при Лоустофте (Lowestoft) и Четырехдневное Глава III. Война блока Англии и Франции против Соединенных Провинций (1672—1674). — Война Франции против...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 133 c. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2327-4. Эта книга является первой из серии, посвященной малоизвестным большинству наших читателей страницам морской истории различных стран. Вы познакомитесь с историей подводного флота Испании и ее учебным парусником-ветераном «Хуаном Себастьяно де Элькано», чилийским броненосцем «Потемкиным» – линкором «Альмиранте Латорре»,...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 133 c. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2327-4. Эта книга является первой из серии, посвященной малоизвестным большинству наших читателей страницам морской истории различных стран. Вы познакомитесь с историей подводного флота Испании и ее учебным парусником-ветераном «Хуаном Себастьяно де Элькано», чилийским броненосцем «Потемкиным» – линкором «Альмиранте Латорре»,...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 137 c. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2226-0. Вторая книга серии «Корабли и история» продолжает экскурс в историю кораблей разных стран. На этот раз читатель познакомится с трагедией гибели перуанской подводной лодки «Пакоча» и героическим выходом ее экипажа на поверхность, самым «долгоживущим» крейсером мира – перуанским «Альмиранте Грау», U 995 – последней...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 137 c. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2226-0. Вторая книга серии «Корабли и история» продолжает экскурс в историю кораблей разных стран. На этот раз читатель познакомится с трагедией гибели перуанской подводной лодки «Пакоча» и героическим выходом ее экипажа на поверхность, самым «долгоживущим» крейсером мира – перуанским «Альмиранте Грау», U 995 – последней...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 218 c. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2214-7. В третьей книге серии «Корабли и история» читатель узнает о малоизвестном эпизоде Первой мировой войны — боях на африканском озере Танганьика, о действиях финских подводных лодок в ходе советско-финской и Второй мировой войн, истории подводной лодки «Лембит» и шхуны канадской полиции «Сен Рок», вписавшей значимые...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 218 c. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2214-7. В третьей книге серии «Корабли и история» читатель узнает о малоизвестном эпизоде Первой мировой войны - боях на африканском озере Танганьика, о действиях финских подводных лодок в ходе советско-финской и Второй мировой войн, истории подводной лодки «Лембит» и шхуны канадской полиции «Сен Рок», вписавшей значимые...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 169 с. — ISBN: 978-5-5321-2163-8. В очередной книге серии читатель познакомится с береговыми и зенитными батареями кригсмарине в Мемеле (ныне литовская Клайпеда), действиями аргентинских подводных лодок в ходе Фолклендского конфликта, российскими и советскими подводными лодками с воздухонезависимыми силовыми установками и морским космическим флотом...
ЛитРес: Самиздат, 2018. — 169 с. В очередной книге серии читатель познакомится с береговыми и зенитными батареями кригсмарине в Мемеле (ныне литовская Клайпеда), действиями аргентинских подводных лодок в ходе Фолклендского конфликта, российскими и советскими подводными лодками с воздухонезависимыми силовыми установками и морским космическим флотом СССР и России.
Ленинград: Ленинградский кораблестроительный институт, 1940. — 119 с. В книге рассматривается боевое назначение линейных кораблей, вооружение, бронирование, даётся обзор вооружения и бронирования линейных кораблей главнейших морских держав.
Ленинград: Ленинградский кораблестроительный институт, 1940. — 119 с. В книге рассматривается боевое назначение линейных кораблей, вооружение, бронирование, даётся обзор вооружения и бронирования линейных кораблей главнейших морских держав.
М.: Вече, 2020. — 340 с.: ил. — (Наука побеждать). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8427-8. Книга является переизданием учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В ней рассказывается о главных морских сражениях в ходе важнейших европейских войн XIX века. Немалое место в книге уделено участию России в...
М.: Вече, 2020. — 437 с.: ил. — (Наука побеждать). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8428-5. Книга является переизданием третьего тома учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В настоящем издании рассказывается о военно-морских сражениях двух важнейших военных конфликтов начала XX века – Русско-японской...
М.: Вече, 2020. — 341 с.: ил. — (Наука побеждать). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8426-1. Книга является переизданием первого тома учебного пособия, предназначавшегося для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ, изданного в начале 1950-х годов. В книге освещены важнейшие морские войны и сражения нескольких исторических эпох – от античности до XVIII века....
ДОСААФ Москва — 1974 - 94 с. Что такое морские мины и торпеды? Как они устроены и каковы принципы их действия? Являются ли в настоящее время мины и торпеды таким же грозным оружием как и во времена прошедших войн? Обо всем этом рассказывается в брошюре. Она написана по материалам открытой отечественной и зарубежной печати, а вопросы использования и развития минно-торпедного...
Журнал. Санкт-Петербург. Издавался Морским ученым комитетом. Сентябрь - декабрь 1854г. Напечатан в типографии Императорской Академии Наук и Морского Кадетского Корпуса. 1026с.
Москва: Военное издательство Министерства Обороны СССР, 1964. — 363 с.
В основу архитектоники труда положено описание действий флотов по театрам, а на каждом из них - по кампаниям каждого года войны. Первый том содержит описание действий русских Балтийского и Черноморских флотов и флотилии Северного Ледовитого океана. Во втором томе освещаются действия иностранных флотов на...
К.: Віхола, 2023. — 352 с. — (Життя). — ISBN 978-617-8257-58-3. Тоннаж американських авіаносців за останні десятиліття збільшився майже у вісім разів. Сучасні патрульні кораблі більші за деякі крейсери XIX століття. Це лише один з аспектів розвитку, який проходить ця техніка, конкуруючи не лише між собою, а й з танками, ракетами, бомбардувальниками, безпілотниками, розвідкою та...
К.: Віхола, 2023. — 352 с. — (Життя). — ISBN 978-617-8257-58-3. Тоннаж американських авіаносців за останні десятиліття збільшився майже у вісім разів. Сучасні патрульні кораблі більші за деякі крейсери XIX століття. Це лише один з аспектів розвитку, який проходить ця техніка, конкуруючи не лише між собою, а й з танками, ракетами, бомбардувальниками, безпілотниками, розвідкою та...
Науково-популярна праця. — Київ: Наш формат, 2019. — 200 c. — ISBN 978-617-7682-68-3. Протягом століть на водних просторах точилися протистояння. Португалія, Нідерланди, Британія, Франція, Німеччина, США, Японія боролися за титул «володаря морів та океанів». Той, хто його здобував, не лише перетворював контроль над морем на капітал, а й отримував серйозні важелі впливу на...
Науково-популярна праця. — Київ: Наш формат, 2019. — 200 c. — ISBN 978-617-7682-68-3. Протягом століть на водних просторах точилися протистояння. Португалія, Нідерланди, Британія, Франція, Німеччина, США, Японія боролися за титул «володаря морів та океанів». Той, хто його здобував, не лише перетворював контроль над морем на капітал, а й отримував серйозні важелі впливу на...
Государственное Военное Издательство, 1933. — 47 с. Книга освещает состояние морских вооружений прибалтийских стран и вопросы учебно-боевой подготовки их флотов. Военно-политическое положение на Балтийском море. Финляндия. Эстония. Латвия. Литва. Польша. Швеции. Германия. Дания. Заключение.
М.: Яуза; Эксмо, 2016. — 392 с. — (ВМФ. Военно-морская энциклопедия). — ISBN: 978-5-699-91690-0. Самая полная энциклопедия дредноутов Великой войны. Всё о самых грозных и совершенных кораблях Первой Мировой. Исчерпывающая информация о линкорах и линейных крейсерах Австро-Венгрии, Аргентины, Бразилии, Великобритании, Германии, Греции, Испании, Италии, России, США, Турции,...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза, 2012. — 512 с.
Уникальная военно-морская энциклопедия от ведущих историков флота. Полные сведения обо всех крейсерах всех стран-участниц Второй Мировой войны - не только великих морских держав (Великобритании, США, Японии, Франции, Италии, Третьего Рейха, СССР), но и второстепенных флотов (Аргентины, Бразилии, Греции, Испании, Нидерландов, Перу, Таиланда,...
М: Эксмо; Яуза, 2016. — 384 с. — (ВМФ. Военно-морская энциклопедия). — ISBN 978-5-699-91690-0. Самая полная энциклопедия дредноутов Великой войны. Всё о самых грозных и совершенных кораблях Первой Мировой. Исчерпывающая информация о линкорах и линейных крейсерах Австро-Венгрии, Аргентины, Бразилии, Великобритании, Германии, Греции, Испании, Италии, России, США, Турции, Франции,...
М.: Гос. издательство детской литературы министерства просвещения РСФСР, 1948. —284 с. Подробно рассказать обо всем этом читателям — задача многих книг. В книге «Боевые корабли» даны только первые, общие сведения о кораблях Военно-морского флота: как они развивались, как устроены и вооружены, как они ведут бой. Автор ставил перед собой задачу — дать своему читателю первую книгу...
Москва, Ленинград: Детгиз, 1948. — 284 с. Под общей редакцией капитана 1-го ранга Н.Л. Питерского. В книге Боевые корабли даны только первые, общие сведения о кораблях Военно-морского флота: их история, как они развивались, как устроены и вооружены, как они ведут бой. Автор ставил перед собой задачу - дать своему читателю первую книгу о боевых кораблях, вызвать у него интерес к...
М.: Военное Издательство Министерства Вооруженных Сил Союза ССР, 1948. — 152 с. В этой интереснейшей книге рассказывается о возникновении, развитии и боевой деятельности самых крупных военных кораблей. В популярной форме даются некоторые сведения об устройстве современного линейного корабля и способах управления его механизмами и вооружением. Обилие чётких и доходчивых иллюстраций...
М.: Военное Издательство Министерства Вооруженных Сил Союза ССР, 1948. — 152 с. В этой интереснейшей книге рассказывается о возникновении, развитии и боевой деятельности самых крупных военных кораблей. В популярной форме даются некоторые сведения об устройстве современного линейного корабля и способах управления его механизмами и вооружением. Обилие чётких и доходчивых иллюстраций...
М.: Воениздат, 1954. — 288 с., ил. В книге "Рассказы о боевых кораблях" в форме, доступной широкому кругу читателей, даны сведения о военно-морском флоте, о боевых кораблях, их технике и вооружении, а также очерки и рассказы о славном историческом прошлом нашего флота, о доблести и героизме советских военных моряков в годы Великой Отечественной войны. Художник К.К. Арцеулов (в...
М.: Воениздат, 1954. — 288 с., ил. В книге "Рассказы о боевых кораблях" в форме, доступной широкому кругу читателей, даны сведения о военно-морском флоте, о боевых кораблях, их технике и вооружении, а также очерки и рассказы о славном историческом прошлом нашего флота, о доблести и героизме советских военных моряков в годы Великой Отечественной войны. Художник К.К. Арцеулов (в...
М.: ЧеРо, 1997. — 52 с. — (Ретроспектива войны на море). Монография М. Петрова посвящена Ютландскому бою - крупнейшему морскому сражению в истории. Ютландский бой стал не только одним из крупнейших сражений в истории человечества. Едва ли найдется еще одна грандиозная битва, будь то на суше или на море, которая бы вызвала столько споров и дискуссий впоследствии и столько раз...
Ленинград: РИО В.-Морских сил РККА, 1927. — 562 с. Летом прошлого 1926-го года Учебным Отделом Штаба РККФ мне было поручено составить, в срочном порядке, пособие для В.-Морского Училища им. тов. Фрунзе по предмету «История флота и военно-морского искусства» в паровую эпоху. Потребность в таком пособии ощущалась давно, а теперь стала неотложной ввиду того, что изданные в свое...
Л.: РИО ВМС РККА, 1927. — 577 с. Монография посвящена развитию флота в XIX веке и анализу морских сражений с середины XIX до начала XX вв. Летом 1926-го года Учебным Отделом Штаба РККФ мне было поручено составить, в срочном порядке, пособие для В.-Морского Училища им. тов. Фрунзе по предмету «История флота и военно-морского искусства» в паровую эпоху. Потребность в таком...
Новосибирск, 2004. — 270 с. Бой 28 июля 1904 г. - один из малоисследованных и интересных боев паровых броненосных эскадр. Сражение в Желтом море (японское название боя 28.07.1904 г.) стало первым масштабным столкновением двух противоборствующих флотов в войне между Россией и Японией в 1904-05 гг. Этот бой стал решающим в судьбе русской 1-й эскадры флота Тихого океана. Бой...
Военное издательство Министерства Обороны СССР, 1971. — 292 с.
Состояние военно-морских флотов основных империалистических государств к концу второй мировой войны. Становление и действия стратегических концепций этих стран и их коалиций. Послевоенное развитие военно-морских флотов, изменение характера их задач, роли и места в будущей войне. Современное (на конец 60-х годов)...
Военное издательство Министерства Обороны СССР, 1971. — 292 с. Состояние военно-морских флотов основных империалистических государств к концу второй мировой войны. Становление и действия стратегических концепций этих стран и их коалиций. Послевоенное развитие военно-морских флотов, изменение характера их задач, роли и места в будущей войне. Современное (на конец 60-х годов)...
Справочное издание. — Санкт-Петербург: МКО, 1995. — 68 с., иллюстрации, схемы и рисунки.
В книге приведены сведения о боевых повреждениях английских и германских кораблей —
участников Ютландского боя. Рассказано о том, как получено повреждение, дано его описание и меры, принятые в борьбе за живучесть корабля. Приведены технические характеристики кораблей. Имеются схемы общего...
Справочное издание. — Санкт-Петербург: МКО, 1995. — 68 с., иллюстрации, схемы и рисунки. В книге приведены сведения о боевых повреждениях английских и германских кораблей — участников Ютландского боя. Рассказано о том, как получено повреждение, дано его описание и меры, принятые в борьбе за живучесть корабля. Приведены технические характеристики кораблей. Имеются схемы общего...
Издательство: ОНТИ НКТП СССР,1938.
По историческим материалам мировой войны 1914-1918 годов.
Содержание.
Предисловие.
Повреждения от торпедных взрывов.
Повреждения от минных взрывов.
Краткие сведения о торпедах и минах, состоявших на вооружении флотов воюющих государств.
Выводы.
Приложения.
Чертежи и схемы.
Иллюстрации.
М.: Государственное издательство, 1927. — 132 с.
Настоящий очерк, предлагаемый вниманию командиров частей сухопутной армии, имеет целью осветить для них с достаточной полнотой вопрос о внутренней сущности, тактике и организации речных и озерных флотилий.
М.: Отраслевая Научно-техническая Библиотека Народного Комиссариата Судостроительной Промышленности, 1941. — 568 с.
Тематический сборник "Линкоры", входящий в серию материалов по иностранному военному кораблестроению, прорабатываемых Отраслевой Научно-технической Библиотекой НКСП, представляет собрание отдельных монографий и статей по вопросам строительства линейных кораблей,...
М.: Директмедиа Паблишинг, 2020. — 219 с. В книгу, посвященную 75-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, вошли монографические очерки о выдающихся советских кораблях-участниках боевых действий — с описанием конструктивных особенностей, истории службы, основных боевых операций, где они участвовали. Уникальные проекты, интересные судьбы, беспримерные подвиги и великие...
М.: Детская литература, 1987. — 176 с., ил. Название книги - "Корабли и сражения" - говорит само за себя. В ней рассказывается о кораблях, об эволюции основных классов боевых сил флота, о знаменитых морских битвах, происшедших за последние полтора века. Все четыре главы книги по построению похожи на серии "Морской коллекции": они посвящены линкорам, крейсерам, авианосцам, и...
Москва: Детская литература, 1987. — 176 с. Название книги - "Корабли и сражения" - говорит само за себя. В ней рассказывается о кораблях, об эволюции основных классов боевых сил флота, о знаменитых морских битвах, происшедших за последние полтора века. Все четыре главы книги по построению похожи на серии "Морской коллекции": они посвящены линкорам, крейсерам, авианосцам, и...
СПб: Типография С.Н. Худекова, 1892. — 44 с. Книга представляет собой доклад генерал-лейтенанта Ф.В. Пестича "В чем заключается сила современных флотов Европы, и какую роль в этой силе играет броня?", сделанный им в военной Академии Генерального Штаба 18 марта 1892 года.
Архангельск: САФУ, 2021. — 425 с. — (Материалы международной научной конференции, посвященной 80-летию прихода в Архангельск первого союзного конвоя «Дервиш»). В данном сборнике представлены научные материалы международной научной конференции, посвященной 80-летию прихода в Архангельск первого союзного конвоя «Дервиш», положившего начало масштабным конвойным операциям по...
М.: АСТ, Мн.: Харвест, 2005. - 418 стр., илл. - (Библиотека военной истории).
В книге изложена 120-летняя техническая эволюция класса торпедных катеров, начиная от паровых баркасов времен Гражданской войны в США, вооруженных примитивными шестовыми торпедами, до газотурбинных кораблей конца XX века, применяющих бесследные самонаводящиеся торпеды. Рассмотрены все без исключения...
М.: АСТ, Мн.: Харвест, 2005. — 418 с.: илл. — (Библиотека военной истории).
В книге изложена 120-летняя техническая эволюция класса торпедных катеров, начиная от паровых баркасов времен Гражданской войны в США, вооруженных примитивными шестовыми торпедами, до газотурбинных кораблей конца XX века, применяющих бесследные самонаводящиеся торпеды. Рассмотрены все без исключения...
Минск: Харвест, 1999. — 365 с. В этой книге рассказывается о миноносках и торпедных катерах - малых боевых кораблях, главным оружием которых были торпеды. Их история насчитывает более 100 лет: с 60-х годов XIX века до конца 70-х годов XX столетия. В ней много любопытных эпизодов, большинство которых упомянуто в предлагаемой работе. В книге проанализирован процесс возникновения,...
М.: АСТ, Минск: Харвест, 1999. — 365 с. — (Библиотека военной истории). — ISBN: 985-433-419-8. Качество: Хороший скан; Иллюстрации: Черно-белые В этой книге рассказывается о миноносках и торпедных катерах - малых боевых кораблях, главным оружием которых были торпеды. Их история насчитывает более 100 лет: с 60-х годов XIX века до конца 70-х годов XX столетия. В ней много...
М.: Морской транспорт, 1942. — 30 с. — ( Основы военно-морского дела). — Тираж 1000 экз.
Научно-популярная брошюра, излагающая основные понятия минного дела и средств борьбы с минами и знакомящая с отдельными образцами мин, принятых на вооружение в современных флотах, предназначена для моряков торгового флота.
Санкт-Петербург: Типография Главного Штаба Его Императорского Величества по Военному Поселению, 1852. — 153 с. О различии военных судов . О корабле . Общее понятие о вооружении. Вооружение стоячего рангоута . Постановление мачт. Вооружение мачты. Вооружение стеньги. Вооружение брам-стенег. Вооружение бушприта . Вооружение утлегаря. Вооружение бом-утлегаря. Вооружение реев ....
М.: Вече, 2003. — 208 с.: ил. — (100 самых-самых). Новая книга из серии «100 самых-самых» рассказывает о наиболее значительных морских сражениях от Античности и до XX века включительно. В книге показана история развития кораблестроения в России, странах Запада и Востока, представлены деяния выдающихся флотоводцев всех времен и народов. Предисловие. История государства – история...
М.: Вече, 2003. — 208 с.: ил. — (100 самых-самых). Новая книга из серии «100 самых-самых» рассказывает о наиболее значительных морских сражениях от Античности и до XX века включительно. В книге показана история развития кораблестроения в России, странах Запада и Востока, представлены деяния выдающихся флотоводцев всех времен и народов. Предисловие. История государства – история...
М.: Вече, 2003. — 208 с.: ил. — (100 самых-самых). Новая книга из серии «100 самых-самых» рассказывает о наиболее значительных морских сражениях от Античности и до XX века включительно. В книге показана история развития кораблестроения в России, странах Запада и Востока, представлены деяния выдающихся флотоводцев всех времен и народов. Предисловие. История государства – история...
Москва: Б.и., 2021. Эта книга представляет собой результат исследования авторами большого и разнообразного военного и исторического материала. Она написана на основе анализа различных документов, архивных материалов, российских и зарубежных исторических трудов и научных работ исследователей, военно-мемуарной литературы, а также личных архивов самих авторов. Рассчитана на...
Ленинград: Судостроение, 1975. — 88 с.; 2 ил. За последнее время «Судостроение» выпустило несколько переводов книг, изданных в ГДР издательствами Хиншторф и Лоеф, из синей серии («Blaue Reiche»), названной так по цвету обложек. Эти книги посвящены истории мореплавания и судостроения, и каждая из них затрагивает определенный вопрос, разработанный с научной добросовестностью и...
М.: Совершенно секретно, 2004. — 384 с., 16 л. ил. на вкл. — (Морская коллекция «Совершенно секретно»). — ISBN: 5-89048-128-2. Угон из итальянского порта русской подводной лодки в 1914 году, попытка взорвать крейсер "Аврора" в историческую ночь 25 октября 1917 года, одиссея польской подводной лодки "Орел" в годы второй мировой войны, мятеж на советском корабле "Сторожевой" в...
М.: Совершенно секретно, 2004. — 384 с. — (Морская коллекция) — ISBN: 5-89048-128-2. Угон из итальянского порта русской подводной лодки в 1914 году, попытка взорвать крейсер "Аврора" в историческую ночь 25 октября 1917 года, одиссея польской подводной лодки "Орел" в годы второй мировой войны, мятеж на советском корабле "Сторожевой" в 1975 году — вот неполный перечень...
Москва: Совершенно секретно, 2004. — 384 с. — (Морская коллекция). — ISBN: 5-89048-128-2. Угон из итальянского порта русской подводной лодки в 1914 году, попытка взорвать крейсер "Аврора" в историческую ночь 25 октября 1917 года, одиссея польской подводной лодки "Орел" в годы второй мировой войны, мятеж на советском корабле "Сторожевой" в 1975 году — вот неполный перечень...
М.: Полигон, 2005. — 705 с.
Книга посвящена истории военного судостроения на реках и озерах и охватывает период с IX века до 1918 года. Вы узнаете о том, что собой представляют и какую роль играют речные корабли как при проведении крупных сухопутных операций, так и в ходе небольших колониальных войн. В издании собрано множество иллюстраций, рисунков и чертежей. Наибольший...
М.-Л.: Военно-морское издательство НКВМФ СССР, 1942. — 281 с.
Книга проф. Четверухина содержит в себе полный очерк истории корабельной и береговой артиллерии, наложеный автором на фоне развития социально-экономических условий. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей. Может быть использована в качестве учебного пособия в системе военно-морских учебных заведений.
Пер. с англ. — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-3303-8.
В своем исследовании известный итальянский ученый Карло Чиполла знакомит с историей европейской экспансии XV—XVIII веков. На основе богатого фактического материала показана роль артиллерии и парусного флота как важнейших факторов, которые позволили европейцам успешно противостоять угрозе с Востока и...
СПб.: Воен. -морск. учен. отд. глав. морск. штаба, 1896. - 530 с.
История военных флотов (перевод с французского). Автор описывает историю, формирование, военные операции и морские войны военных флотов в разных частях света. - Военные флоты Европы в середине XVII века, организация военных флотов и морская война с 1662 г. по 1713 г., европейские военные флоты за время с 1713 по...
Л.: Научно-технический комитет военно-морских сил РККА, 1928. — 284с. Первое издание справочника «Военные флоты 1925 г.» рекомендовано циркуляром Штаба РККФ от 20 мая 1925 г. № 34 и циркуляром Главного Управления РККА от 20 января 1926 г. №12. "Настоящий третий выпуск справочника «Военные Флоты» является продолжением издания предшествующих годов (1925 г. и 1926-27 г.г.) и...
М.: Знание, 1952. — 34 с. — (Лекции обществ по распространению политических и научных знаний. Серия II, № 28). Начало кораблестроения. Возникновение регулярного русского флота. От деревянного флота к современным стальным кораблям.
М.: Знание, 1952. — 34 с. — (Лекции обществ по распространению политических и научных знаний. Серия II, № 28). Начало кораблестроения. Возникновение регулярного русского флота. От деревянного флота к современным стальным кораблям.
М.: Полигон, 1994. — 362 с.: ил. — (Военно-историческая библиотека). Книга профессора А. П. Шершова "История военного кораблестроения" впервые была издана в 1940 году Военно-Морским издательством. В относительно небольшом по объему труде автор с достаточной подробностью изложил развитие каждого из основных классов военных кораблей в каждой крупной военно-морской державе....
М.: Полигон, 1994. — 362 с.: ил. — (Военно-историческая библиотека). Книга профессора А. П. Шершова "История военного кораблестроения" впервые была издана в 1940 году Военно-Морским издательством. В относительно небольшом по объему труде автор с достаточной подробностью изложил развитие каждого из основных классов военных кораблей в каждой крупной военно-морской державе....
Cassell, 2005. — 231 pages. Chinese 作 者： （英）兰伯特 著，郑振清，向静 译 出 版 社： 上海人民出版社 发行时间: 2005年12月01日 时间： 2008/02/24 12:35:07 发布 | 2008/02/25 12:14:03 更新 The 17th and 18th centuries witnessed the rise of fighting sailing navies, which became instruments of worldwide strategic power. Spain, Holland, France, and Britain were the leading protagonists; after the eclipse of the first two, the...
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