Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 532 p. The U.S. Navy was at war in the Atlantic long before 7 December 1941, but little is known about that conflict. Mr. Roosevelt’s Navy is a vivid, thoroughly researched account of this undeclared war upon which Mr. Roosevelt embarked in order to sway the desperate Battle of the Atlantic in favor of Britain’s hard-pressed Royal Navy. Not only...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. ― 53 p. ― (Graphic History 08). Advance into battle with the first ironclad warships, CSS Merrimac and USS Monitor, as they struggle for supremacy in a four-hour duel to control the seas. Join Franklin and McKean Buchanan, two brothers who faced each other from opposite sides, as sailors fought in cramped and dangerous conditions in one of the most...
Grand Central Publishing, 2012. — 240 p. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performance rested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadership skills before he could improve his ship. Within months, he...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1999. — 50 p. — (Warships 12). During World War II, U.S. Navy light cruisers were jacks-of-all trades but were also often forced to take on the role of heavy cruisers due to the warship losses incurred at Pearl Harbor. Al Adcock looks at the six classes of light cruisers that saw action in this nicely done Squadron/Signal publication from...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 256 p. Hank Adlam began his naval flying career in 1941, his first operational posting was to the newly formed No. 890 Squadron. The squadron’s first operational role was to protect a convoy sailing from New York and bound for Greenock. Their major task was to protect the ship’s squadron of Fairey Swordfish anti-submarine aircraft and to destroy any...
RAND Corporation, 2007. — 140 p. The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) constitutes a new class of fast, agile, and networked warships designed to overcome threats in shallow waters posed by mines, diesel-electric submarines, fast-attack craft, and fast inshore attack craft. The LCS Program Office asked RAND to help it gain a clearer understanding of operational, logistics, and...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 255 p. Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program and revived his career, being retired—involuntarily—some thirty years...
David McKay Company, 1979. — 136 p. Presents a naval history of the U.S. Coast Guard from the late 1700's to the present time. Includes stories of their feats in dealing with pirating, smuggling, illegal fishing, military actions and shipwrecks.
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 277 p. Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones,...
Three Rivers Press, 2008. — 354 p. As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counter-offensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was...
Stanford University Press, 2009. — 728 p. This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period, including the Army-Navy fight over...
Independently Publishers, 2021. — 232 p. USS Nevada is an iconic ship that speaks to American Resilience and stubbornness. Launched towards the end of WW I and called "The greatest battleship afloat" by the New York Times on October 6, 1915, the USS Nevada rose from the ashes of Pearl Harbor to see action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters and was awarded 7 Battle Stars...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 256 p. In this new paperback edition of America Spreads Her Sails, fourteen writers and historians demonstrate how American men and goods in American-made ships moved out over Alfred Thayer Mahan's "broad common," the sea, to extend the country's commerce, power, political influence, and culture. Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Lt. John "Mad Jack"...
Dundurn, 2011. — 255 p. In 1863–1864, Confederate naval operations were launched from Canada against America, with an unexpected impact on North America’s future. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. This is completely untrue. Nevertheless, there was a time during the U.S. Civil War when attacks on...
University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — 356 p. Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union...
Potomac Books, 2005. — 318 p. Charles Stewart’s life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick O’Brien’s fictional hero, Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (11) than any other U.S. Navy captain and served longer (63 years) than any officer in American naval history. He commanded every type of warship, from sloop to ship-of-the-line, and served every...
University of Alabama Press, 2021. — 248 p. A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The 1830s is an overlooked period in American naval history and is usually overshadowed by the more dramatic War of 1812 and the Civil War. Nevertheless, the personnel, operations, technologies, policies, and vision of the Navy of...
University Alabama Press, 2018. — 280 p. A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective. The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world’s navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies were...
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1989. — 96 p. A short but good overview of a little-known part of the Coast Guard's World War II operations: land-based patrols, often with horses and/or dogs, of much of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States. The author is an experienced military history writer. The writing is decent, the content is informative, and...
McFarland and Company, 2009. — 241 p. This book describes the life of the enlisted man aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-World War II years; the war preparation period in 1941; and the wartime years. It features first-person narrations collected from interviews and correspondence with the few remaining Farragut class destroyer sailors, and briefly describes the...
Merriam Press Monograph No. M-50, Bennington, VT, 1988. 42 pgs. The first submarine mines, or the torpedo as it was called, is a litany of American names - Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Moses Shaw, and Samuel Colt. But it was not until the 19th century that electrically-fired mines were developed. This book traces their history from the days of wooden sailing ships to the 20th...
Admiralty Trilogy Group, 2020. — 129 p. Except for Annex A, systems are listed in their annexes alphabetically, first by country, then by name. The U.S. ships in Annex A are listed in traditional order, with aircraft carriers first, then submarines, followed by major combatants, minor combatants, amphibious ships, mine warfare craft, auxiliaries, then civilian vessels. An...
Zenith Press, 2007. — 128 p. The lead ship of her class, the last of the battleships--and the best--the USS Iowa (BB 61) marks the beginning and end of a naval era. This book traces the Iowas long and storied career--from her conception in the 1930s as the first of the 45,000-ton class of battleships, through her distinguished service in World War II and Korea and the 1980s, to...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2017. — 450 s. — ISBN 9780316097833 W historii Ameryki tylko czterech oficerów awansowano do stopnia pięciogwiazdkowych admirałów floty: Williama Leahy’ego, Ernesta Kinga, Chestera Nimitza i Williama Halseya. Byli to najlepsi, najwybitniejsi synowie Marynarki Wojennej Stanów Zjednoczonych i wspólnie poprowadzili ją do triumfu w II wojnie światowej,...
Little Brown and Company, 2012. — 576 p. How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power. Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 352 p. This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history. The period from 1775 to 1850 was a trying time for the infant navy, a time when much was demanded of individual officers. New in paperback, this book focuses not only on battles and ships but on the colorful men, such as Oliver Hazard Perry...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 480 p. This superb collection of biographical essays tells the story of the U.S. Navy through the lives of the officers who forged its traditions. The essayists are leading naval historians who assess the careers of these men and their impact on the naval service, from the Continental Navy of the American Revolution to the nuclear Navy of the Cold...
University Press of Florida, 2009. — 427 p. In this narrative, William Braisted — an admiral's son who actually lived in China during his father's tour of duty with the Navy at this time--is both historian and a witness with special insight.
Naval Institute Press, 2008. — 282 p. Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the U.S. Navy won an undisputed place as a major force in the Pacific. Believing that the study of U.S. naval history has too often been written without adequate attention to economic, military, intellectual, and other motivating factors behind foreign...
Government Printing Office, 2007. — 165 p. This work is a training manual for members of the crew of the 1797 United States frigate Constitution, the world's oldest warship in commission. The venerable vessel, which earned its nickname, "Old Ironsides," during the War of 1812, is today permanently berthed in the Charlestown Navy Yard, across the Charles River from its building...
University of Alabama Press, 2015. — 712 p. In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama City), Florida to the Rio Grande...
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This book examines US naval strategy and the role of American seapower over three decades, from the late 20th century to the early 21st century. This study uses the concept of seapower as a framework to explain the military and political application of sea power and naval force for the United States of America. It addresses the context in which...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 656 p. This is the first time in paperback for this standard biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who was the controversial architect of the American victory in the Pacific. Once asked if it was he who said, 'When they get in trouble they send for the sonsabitches, ' King replied that he was not, but that he would have said it if he had...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 561 p. Regarded as the standard biography of World War II U.S. Naval hero Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886-1969), this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and...
Naval Institute Press, 2003. — 574 p. Small though they were, PT boats played a key role in World War II, carrying out an astonishing variety of missions where fast, versatile, and strongly armed vessels were needed. Called "weapons of opportunity", they met the enemy at closer quarters and with greater frequency than any other type of surface craft. Among the most famous PT...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 218 p. Ron Burt writes a compelling story about his older brother's heroism and injuries received at the hands of Kamikaze direct hits on two ships, about his brother's recovery from those injuries and about his own efforts to gather the information necessary to support the process to have his brother awarded the Navy Cross...
Rand Corporation, 2008. — 73 p. The authors evaluate the use of small ships in theater security cooperation (TSC). They provide the U.S. Navy with a concept of operation for small ships in TSC, necessary small ship characteristics, a survey of suitable ships, and recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of TSC operations conducted with a small vessel. The report...
American Ordnance Association, 2003. — 25 p. Weaponry the Navy used during the Civil War. Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance is the definitive reference book on Union and Confederate large caliber artillery projectiles, torpedoes, and mines. Some of these projectiles are from the most famous battles of the Civil War.
Naval Institute Press, 1990. — 228 p. — ISBN: 0870210041. The book covers some 150 vessels, their hull design and construction, rig, engines, armament, and performance under sail as well as steam.
Naval Institute Press, 1993. — 179 p. — ISBN: 0870215868. Every U.S. Navy ironclad-oceangoing and riverine-from monitors to casemate riverboats, with descriptions of their Civil War combat and operational roles, failures as well as successes is included.
Naval Institute Press, 2002. — 224 p. Although the U.S. Navy was a relatively small force during the Age of Sail, the radical thinking and innovative design of its warships impressed larger maritime powers. Until now, however, information about these ships has come from the works of Howard Chapelle, a practical naval architect and amateur historian whose drawings were...
Franklin Watts, 1965. — 256 p. The Coast Guard is one of the oldest organizations of the federal government. Established in 1790, the Coast Guard served as the nation's only armed force on the sea until Congress launched the Navy Department eight years later. Since then, the Coast Guard has protected the United States throughout its long history and served proudly in every one...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 272 p. Sovereignty at Sea not only adds much to our understanding of maritime and diplomatic history during the First World War period but also speaks to contemporary concerns with issues surrounding the U.S. justification for wars.
John Blair Publishers, 1998. — 227 p. After the elimination of Charleston in 1863 as a viable entry port for running the blockade, Wilmington became the major source of external supply for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The story of blockade running on the Cape Fear River was one of the most important factors determining the fate of the South. Here author Dawson Carr...
SUNY Press, 2016. — 340 p. Explores the life and times of John Drake Sloat, the US Navy Pacific Squadron commander who occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California at the beginning of the war with Mexico. Knickerbocker Commodore chronicles the life of Rear Admiral John Drake Sloat, an important but understudied naval figure in US history. Born and raised by a...
New York, NY: Bonanza Books, 1949. — 558 p. This is the most comprehensive book ever to be published on the sailing men-of-war of the United States Navy. The sailing-ship era of our Navy was highly picturesque and most important. It was an era that saw the founding of the United States, its development as a naval and maritime power, the foundation of a national maritime policy,...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 92 p. Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. Since the war's start over 150 years ago, the battles have been subjected to endless debate among historians and the generals themselves. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 59 p. Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation’s colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at an acknowledgment of the slave trade conducted between Southern buyers, Northern shippers, the African continent and the Caribbean region....
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 331 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...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 224 p. Launched in 1797, USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is renowned for her actions during the War of 1812 against the Britain, when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships. The battle with HMS Guerriere earned her the nickname 'Old Ironsides' and a...
Archon Books, 1973. — 211 p. Benjamin Franklin Tracy (1830–1915) was a United States political figure who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1889 through 1893, during the administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. Tracy was noted for his role in the creation of the "New Navy", a major reform of the service, which had fallen into obsolescence after the Civil War. Like...
Naval Inst Pr, 2007. — 298 p. Until now there has never been a complete ship's biography of the sole survivor of America's new steel navy, USS Olympia. Part of a congressionally-mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the twentieth century, the protected cruiser became famous as Admiral George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898 during the...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 144 p. This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings. While their achievements alone would merit an important place in histories of the war at sea, the...
Encounter Books, 2017. — 304 p. The challenges to American security in the Western Pacific, the seas that surround Europe, and the Persian Gulf are growing. At the same time, U.S. military commanders seek more naval forces to protect America's interest in the safe transit of American goods, deterrence in a proliferating world, and the defense of our key allies. At the same time...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 320 p. This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information found in secretly kept war diaries and...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 224 p. In the U.S. Navy, "Wheel Books" were once found in the uniform pockets of every junior and many senior petty officers. Each small notebook was unique to the Sailor carrying it, but all had in common a collection of data and wisdom that the individual deemed useful in the effective execution of his or her duties. Often used as a substitute...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 152 p. The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 208 p. The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 208 p. The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 208 p. The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of...
McFarland, 2021. — 235 p. Did President Roosevelt and other high-ranking U.S. government officials know about Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor, and fail to warn U.S. Navy leadership? Drawing on recently declassified materials and revelations from other writers, this book traces the flow of intelligence and concludes the imminent attack was allowed to happen to win the...
Basic Books, 2011. — 528 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 oceanbut 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 to...
Basic Books, 2011. — 570 p. The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor to Charlestown. Revere and his companions rowed with muffled oars to avoid capture by the British...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 230 p. A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact. The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the U.S. brig...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 252 p. When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers is a valuable chronicle of the times,...
Capstone Press, 2018. — 112 p. This book explores various perspectives surrounding the naval Battle of Hampton Roads and the Battle of the Ironclads in the Civil War. Readers are immersed in the action as their choices guide the narrative. Uses a choose-your-own adventure style to explore the Battle of the Ironclads, including what it was like to serve aboard a Union ship...
Casemate, 2016. — 304 p. During the opening days of World War II in the Pacific, a small group of American sailors in the Philippines were propelled into the forefront of the fighting against the navy and air power of Imperial Japan. They were manned with six small, wooden PT-boats and led by a courageous, larger-than-life character in Lt. John D. Bulkeley. As America's defense...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2018. — 415 p. A Log of the Vincennes, first published in 1947, is a unique, in-depth look at life aboard the navy heavy-cruiser Vincennes (CA-44) during World War II. The book, based in part on the daily log kept by Lt. Donald Hugh Dorris, was prepared by Dorris' father after his son was lost in the sinking of the Vincennes. The ship took part in...
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 338 p. — (Anatomy of the Ship) Superbly illustrated with artwork of the ship through its career, reconstructions of deck layouts, and 3D illustrations of every detail of the ship from its rigging to its boats to its anchors, this book reconstructs and dissects the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd, the most original survivor of the US Navy's most...
Johns Hopkins University, 2021. — 352 p. When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the...
Johns Hopkins University, 2021. — 352 p. — (Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812). When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings...
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989. – 416 pp. Foreword. Common Denominators. Submarines. Thresher. Surface Ships—First Battles. Surface Ships—The Alliance with Congress. Surface Ships—Legislating Nuclear Power into the Fleet. Technology and Diplomacy: The Multilateral Force. Shippingport. The Devil Is in the Details. Independence and Control. Discipline of...
Onyx Press, 1997. — 312 p. Featuring eight pages of photographs, a real-life version of The Hunt for Red October recounts a U.S. submarine's perilous secret mission to find a downed Soviet nuclear submarine carrying the Soviet Union's secret code books.
Naval War College Press, 2007. — 138 p. — (Newport Papers). The powerful underwater earthquake that occurred off the coast of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 generated the most destructive tsunami ever recorded, drowning more than 150,000 people without warning in exposed littoral areas from Indonesia to South Africa. The destruction was particularly severe in the Aceh Province of...
Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1984. — 156 p. First published in 1984, this is a generally good and thorough overview of all the classes of American heavy and light cruisers that fought in World War II, with brief service histories of each individual ship (if they saw any combat action). The final few pages discuss Japanese cruisers (much too brief, but then this was not the...
Texas University Press, 2006. — 203 p. The Pacific Theater in World War II depended on American sea power. This power was refined between 1923 and 1940, when the U.S. Navy held twenty-one major fleet exercises designed to develop strategy and allow officers to enact plans in an operational setting. Prior to 1923, naval officers relied heavily on the theories of Capt. Alfred...
Naval War College Press, 2013. - 211 p. - (Newport Papers). Military intervention always has been and always will be an important part of foreign policy, a tool to further national interests and influence world events. Many scholars have tried to explain the intervention behavior of states in crises, conflicts, and wars. When and why do states intervene, and what are reasons for...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. — 384 p. Almost as soon as the smoke had settled at Lexington and Concord, the American Revolution was being fought on the sea as well as the land. A fragile and disunited coalition of thirteen colonies, embarking on a war with a great naval power, began to build a navy for the "preservation of the lives, liberty and property of the good people of...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 352 p. This is an account of naval conflict in the American Civil War 1861-1865. The author describes scenarios such as primitive Northern gunboats drifting through Louisiana's muddy bayous, rebel privateers capturing Yankee merchantmen at sea and Union ironclads subduing Southern forts with relentless gunfire.
United States Government Printing Office, 2005. — 410 p. The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during the first critical postwar years--that is, between the end of...
Naval Institute Press, 1982. — 296 p. Shows, describes and evaluates guns, gun mounts, fire control systems, mines, torpedoes, sonar systems, missiles, bombs, rockets and other Navy ordnance
Praeger Publishers, 2008. — 449 p. This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on...
Penguin Books, 2017. — 432 p. Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 288 p. Gideon Welles's 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned...
Casemate Publishers, 2006. — 237 p. John S. ‘Slew’ McCain was an old–school sailor. Wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of ‘Popeye.’ He was also a pioneer in the hard–hitting naval tactics that brought Imperial Japan to its knees. McCain graduated from Annapolis in 1906 and served aboard an armored cruiser in World War I. Espying the future...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 359 p. Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much...
University of South Carolina Press, 2013. — 416 p. Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast, he began to compose a remarkable...
Beacon Press, 2020. — 288 p. The story of the 13 courageous black men who integrated the officer corps of the United States Navy -serving as forerunners of the civil rights movement and leaders of desegregation across America. Through previously unpublished oral histories and original interviews with surviving family members, Dan Goldberg brings 13 forgotten heroes away from...
The History Press, 2020. — 163 p. The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Maritime, 2020. — 208 p. — ISBN 978-1-52675-854-5. Part of the Images of War series, this is a comprehensive record of the US Navy’s formidable destroyer fleet since 1898. This classic Images of War book traces the key role played by destroyers of the United States Navy since the first order for 16 in 1898. Prior to the USA’s entry into the First World...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Maritime, 2020. — 208 p. — ISBN 978-1-52675-854-5. Part of the Images of War series, this is a comprehensive record of the US Navy’s formidable destroyer fleet since 1898. This classic Images of War book traces the key role played by destroyers of the United States Navy since the first order for 16 in 1898. Prior to the USA’s entry into the First World...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2001. — 49 p. — (Warships 14). There were 11 different classes of Heavy Cruisers created by the US before/during WW 2. Part 1 covers the first four. An excellent blend of the history of US heavy cruisers, development of each class and what makes one different from the other. The B&W photos help show the gun positions, the lines of each class and...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2001. — 52 p. — (Warships 15). There were 11 different classes of Heavy Cruisers created by the US before/during WW 2. Part 2 covers the the last seven. An excellent blend of the history of US heavy cruisers, development of each class and what makes one different from the other. The B&W photos help show the gun positions, the lines of each class...
Greenwood Press, 1973. — 262 p. A most thorough and scholarly study of the relationship between the post-Civil War American Navy and the mercantile expansionists of that period. The author has succeeded notably in relating the growth of American mercantilism in the 1870s and 1880s to the corresponding development of naval strategy and power in that period. The U.S. was started...
Arcadia Publishing, 2018. — 192 p. The Delaware Bay during the Revolutionary War was vital for trade and home to a host of armed conflicts between British vessels and American privateers. Cape May County captains in their light, fast vessels captured dozens of British merchant ships off the Atlantic coast. At the Battle of Delaware Bay, Lieutenant Joshua Barney aboard the Hyder...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 270 p. The US Navy is the most formidable naval force in the world—yet, it seems ill-suited to face today’s challenges, especially the rise of China’s maritime power. What explains this paradox? Looking for answers, John Hanley explores how the navy has negotiated its place in the broad national security establishment, especially in the decades...
St. Martin's Press, 2011. — 256 p. Chester Nimitz was an admiral's Admiral, considered by many to be the greatest naval leader of the last century. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Nimitz assembled the forces, selected the leaders, and--as commander of all U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces in the Pacific Ocean--led the charge one island at a time, one battle at a time,...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 288 p. Although Theodore Roosevelt has been the subject of numerous books, there has not been a single volume that traces Roosevelt's interaction with the U.S. Navy from his work as a naval historian in the 1880s through his leadership of the Navy as president in the early twentieth century. The editors of this volume fill in this gap in the...
Naval War College Press, 2004. - 334 p. - (Newport Papers). Our pleasure in publishing John Hattendorf's Newport Paper on maritime strategy arises from several sources. The Naval War College Press is pleased to republish and make more broadly available an essay that had become a standard reference work for those few fortunate enough to be both cleared for and fascinated by the...
Naval War College Press, 2006. - 288 p. The decade of the 1990s represents a distinctive period in American naval strategic thinking. Bounded on one side by the end of the Cold War in 1989-1991 and on the other by the beginning of the era of the global war on terrorism after 11 September 2001, these were years in which the U.S. Navy of the 1990s found itself faced with a...
Naval War College Press, 2007. — 158 p. — (Newport Papers). This work is part of a four-volume set of studies within the Naval War College Press’s Newport Paper's monograph series. A broad introduction to the history of strategic and doctrinal thinking within the U.S. Navy in the period between 1970 and 2000 is found in these Newport Papers; it may be useful to read them in the...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 254 p. Toward a New Maritime Strategy examines the evolution of American naval thinking in the post-Cold War era. It recounts the development of the U.S. Navy's key strategic documents from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the release in 2007 of the U.S. Navy's maritime strategy, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower. This...
Chartwell Books, 1978. — 192 p. — ISBN-10 0600365840, ISBN-13 978-0600365846 Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. Includes index. Many black and white photos. No edition stated. Synopsis: This book is about the rise of the fighting strength of the U.S. Navy during WWII, the ships, the men who fought on them, the great Naval Commanders, the battles they fought and the...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 360 p. Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled...
Smithsonian, 2007. — 384 p. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William "Bull"...
Arcadia Publishing, 2020. — 144 p. In 1790, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton asked President George Washington to fund a fleet of "revenue cutters" that could halt smuggling and collect taxes in U.S. waters. Today, from northern Maine to southern Connecticut, the Coast Guard provides the might and the oversight to ensure that the coastlines are safe and navigable. From...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 224 p. This book examines President Theodore Roosevelt's use of the United States naval services as supporting components of his diplomatic efforts to facilitate the emergence of the United States as a Great Power at the dawn of the 20th century. After reviewing the development of Roosevelt's personal philosophy with regard to naval power, the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. As the Vietnam War reached its tragic climax in the last days of April 1975, a task force of U.S. Navy ships cruised off South Vietnam's coast. Their mission was to support the evacuation of American embassy personnel and military advisers from Saigon as well as to secure the safety of the South Vietnamese whose lives were in endangered by...
Louisiana State University Press, 1967. — 274 p. Development and creation of the new steel United States Navy after the mid-1880s. A detailed history of the birth of the modern US Navy in the 1880s and 1890s. After the Civil War, most of its ships were laid up in reserve, and by 1878, the Navy personnel was just 6,000 men. In 1882, the U.S. Navy consisted of many outdated ship...
Naval War College Press, 2004. — 291 p. Memoirs as sources fill an important gap in the historical record. They tell us how an individual lived, what he did, and what he thought about how he lived and what he did. Such are the memoirs of Henry Kent Hewitt (1887-1972), Admiral in the United States Navy, whose active duty career spanned the first fifty years of the twentieth...
Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. — 493 p. Traces growth of U.S. Navy's nuclear fleet from earliest beginnings to 1962 when twenty-seven submarines and three surface ships were in operation. Focuses on Admiral Hyman G. Rickover as the driving force who convinced the Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission to support the project and who then shepherded it to...
HNA Association, 1998. — 84 p. The HNSA, standing for the Historic Naval Ships Association, was originally established more than fifty years ago with the intention of its members to promote the preservation and also the exhibition of more than a hundred of naval ships homeported from Sydney to Athens and from Corpus Christi to Toronto. The HNSA comprises one of the strongest naval...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 274 p. A textbook to introduce the beginning NJROTC cadet to the Navy and its high school program for youth includes information on national security, naval weapons and aircraft, navigation, seamanship, and other pertinent topics.
Kent State University Press, 2018. — 304 p. On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads―the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although the battle ended in a draw, this...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 255 p. Learning War examines the U.S. Navy's doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history's greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the Navy...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 448 p. Mastering the Art of Command is a detailed examination of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's leadership during World War II. It describes how he used his talents to guide the Pacific Fleet following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, win crucial victories against the forces of Imperial Japan, and then seize the initiative in the Pacific. Once Nimitz's...
Bantam Books, 2011. — 516 p. Draws on interviews with veterans and primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal (in 1942) as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and Marines new approaches to warfare.
Bantam Books, 2007. — 544 p. The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly...
Bantam, 2016. — 602 p. Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, an unprecedented account of the monumental Pacific War campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its power and supremacy and established the foundation for America as the dominant global superpower, from theNew York Times bestselling author cited as "doing for the Navy what...
Random House Publishing Group, 2022. — 480 p. This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home and decommissions most of its warships. But this peaceful interlude is short-lived, as...
Lyons Press, 2011. — 512 p. More than 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II. This meticulous study is a concentrated look at Naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his subordinate leaders—fighting men under stress—and the relationship of fighting admirals to their top leaders...
Savas Beatie, 2021. — 192 p. “Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness,” reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hampton Roads, Sunday, March 9, 1862. The day before, the Rebel ram had obliterated two powerful...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 536 p. William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the “Patton of the Pacific” and solidified his reputation as a decisive, aggressive fighter prone to impetuous errors of...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 536 p. William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the “Patton of the Pacific” and solidified his reputation as a decisive, aggressive fighter prone to impetuous errors of...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 312 p. The story begins in 1944 with the battle for Iwo Jima when the Naval Seabees braved concentrated enemy fire and Iwo's daunting terrain to rig floating causeways, blow up wrecked landing craft, and drive their bulldozers up three terraces that rose from the ocean to secure the beachhead. This book fully chronicles their heroism, including...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 228 p. When William Bradford Huie, a reporter for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury, joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, he received a commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil Engineer's Corps Construction Battalions—the Seabees. With the publication of Can Do! the following year, Americans soon came to appreciate the...
University of Georgia Press, 2022. — 240 p. Efforts upon the waves played a critical role in European and Anglo-American conflicts throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the oft-told narrative of the American Revolution tends to focus on battles on American soil or the debates and decisions of the Continental Congress. The Untold War at Sea is the first book to place American...
University of South Carolina Press, 1991. — 184 p. In November of 1862, Alvan Hunter, then a youth of sixteen, signed on as 'ship's boy' aboard the monitor Nahant. His year's service aboard the warship allowed the young man to witness, among other things, the abortive April 1863 Union attack on Fort Sumter, the capture of the Confederate ram Atlanta, and the naval and military...
UPA, 2013. — 219 p. Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Both sponsored policies that nourished the nation’s industrial infrastructure. Their legacy would yield a dividend of growth, production, employment, and ultimately, national security. In this revised...
University Alabama Press, 2022. — 320 p. Three intertwined stories that reveal the challenges faced by the US Navy in its evolution between the Civil War and the First World War. Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy’s strategic and matériel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War. These incidents had lasting...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 288 p. This is the compelling story of an American crash boat crewed by unknown heroes during World War II in the South Pacific, whose dramatic rescues of downed pilots and clandestine missions off Japanese-held islands were done at great peril and with little fanfare. It chronicles ordinary young men doing extraordinary things, told to George D. Jepson by...
Regner History, 2019. — 320 p. This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships begins with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1898 through the last true combat service of the ships in the Vietnam War. Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds," destroyers were quick naval ships used to defend larger battleships-and they proved indispensable in America's...
Naval Institute Press, 1979. — 307 p. Far China Station was the first work to put nineteenth century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective. Johnson examines the origins of the East India Squadron, defines its import role in the implementation of foreign policy and describes the dangers routinely faced by the squadron's ships and sailors....
Newport: Weapon Systems Department, 1978. — 144 p. This report covers the growth/development of the "auto-mobile" or self-propelled torpedo in the U.S. Navy from torpedo inception in Europe by Robert Whitehead in 1866 up to and including Torpedo Mk 48 of 1978. Part I is a narrative of the historical aspects of the evolution, while part II contains illustrations and characteristics...
Potomac Books, 2015. — 387 p. In The Search for the Japanese Fleet, David W. Jourdan, one of the world’s experts in undersea exploration, reconstructs the critical role one submarine played in the Battle of Midway, considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire during this battle was one of the oldest boats in the navy, USS Nautilus. The...
Potomac Books, 2017. — 560 p. — ISBN 10 1612348203. — ISBN 13 978-1612348209. In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men...
Hanover Square Press, 2022. — 316 p. The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin. On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1989 — 76 p. — (Detail & scale №34) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit interiors,...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1990 — 76 p. — (Detail & scale №39) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit interiors,...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1990 — 76 p. — (Detail & scale №36) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit interiors,...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1993 — 76 p. — (Detail & scale №42) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit interiors,...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1988 — 76 p. — (Detail & scale №29) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit interiors,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 224 p. The first book to tell the tale of the War of 1812 from the privateers' perspective. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award of the North American Society for Oceanic History During the War of 1812, most clashes on the high seas involved privately owned merchant ships, not official naval vessels. Licensed by their home governments and...
US Naval Institute Press, 2008. — 263 p. Agents of Innovation examines the influence of the General Board of the Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II. The General Board, a formal body established by the Secretary of the Navy to advise him on both strategic matters with respect to the fleet, served as the organizational nexus for the...
Crown/Archetype, 2008. — 331 p. Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into a fiery coffin, sinking in less than fifteen...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 308 p. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy knew it would need vital information from the Pacific. Captain Milton ‘Mary’ Miles journeyed to China to set up weather stations and monitor the Chinese coastline—and to spy on the Japanese. After a meeting and a handshake agreement with Chiang Kai-shek's spymaster, General Dai Li, the Sino-American...
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1990. — 256 p. ISBN13: 978-0851775197. This is the first in a series that covers all Allied MTB's, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers used in World War II. Each vessel is described in full and accompanied by photographs, line illustrations and plans.
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1993. — 256 p. ISBN13: 978-0851776026. This second of three volumes covers 16 Vosper MTB designs, and the US 70-foot, 77-foot and 80-foot ELCO designs. US-built Vosper designs supplied under lease-lend are also covered, while weapons systems and machinery are dealt with in detail.
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 375 p. The tragic, the comic, the terrifying, the poignant are all part of the story of the Black Pony pilots who distinguished themselves in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. Flying their turboprop Broncos "down and dirty, low and slow," they killed more of the enemy and saved more allied lives with close-air support than all the other...
Cooper Square Press, 2000. — 336 p. On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters for four days, and why only a fraction of...
Arco Publishing Company, 1974. — 76 p. — (World War II Fact Files). A complete detailed list of the auxiliary military vessels (gunboats and minesweepers) of the US Navy during the Second World War. The ships were used to keep American coastal waters safe for shipping, before being replaced by submarines. A useful book for professional/amateur historians and for anyone...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 147 p. This close examination of the deadly Iraqi F-1 Mirage attack on the USS Stark and its aftermath comes on the tenth anniversary of the incident. Written by two attorneys who are experts on the air strike, it is the first book to chronicle the events of May 17, 1987, when two Exocet missiles were fired at the U.S. Navy frigate on patrol in...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 320 p. The second volume of this authoritative biography of America's first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farragut's life, which included the ever-fascinating period of the Civil War. Farragut was as carefully methodical in preparation for battle as he was fearlessly swift in the execution of his plans. In Our First Admiral,...
Public Affairs, 2012. — 370 p. On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was rocked by an enormous explosion. The ship's commander, Kirk Lippold, felt the ship violently thrust up and to the right, as everything not bolted down...
Naval War College Press, 2006. - 194 p. - (Newport Papers). Reposturing the Force: U.S. Overseas Presence in the Twenty-first Century it is primary aim is to provide a snapshot of a process - the ongoing reconfiguration of America's foreign military "footprint" abroad--that is likely to prove of the most fundamental importance for the long-term security of the United States, yet...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 228 p. Admiral Nimitz called this book about the USS Aaron Ward on the radar picket line in the Pacific, "the finest story of the war that I have been privileged to read. A masterpiece of World War II heroism, this book catches the spirit and tone of an incredible fighting ship, the USS Aaron Ward, a destroyer-turned-minelayer on the radar picket...
United States Dept. of Defense, 2019. — 224 p. The USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a decorated World War II warship that is primarily remembered for her worst 15 minutes. This ship earned ten (10) battle stars for her service in World War II and was credited for shooting down nine (9) enemy planes. However, this fame was overshadowed by the first 15 minutes July 30, 1945, when she...
US Naval Institute Press, 2006. — 638 p. An abundance of new evidence demanded this reevaluation of Naval flagman Frank Jack Fletcher (1885-1973), the "black shoe" Admiral, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface ship officer in contrast to a "brown shoe" naval aviator--Fletcher led the carrier forces that won against all odds at Coral Sea, Midway,...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 624 p. From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers though the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picking up the story after Midway, the author presents a scrupulously accurate account of what happened, describing in rich detail the actual planes...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 265 p. On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese navies met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A strategic victory for the U.S. in spite of the loss of the carrier Lexington, the destroyer Sims and the fleet oiler Neosho, the battle blunted the Japanese drive on Port Moresby,...
Pen and Sword, 2023. — 362 p. Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared “will live in infamy”. During the strike, Japanese planes attacked the seven US battleships lined up in Battleship Row – and the flag battleship USS...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 228 p. Aimed at the general reader with an interest in World War II and the U.S. Navy, this book looks at the massive salvage effort that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, beginning with the damage control efforts aboard the sinking and damaged ships in the harbor on 7 December 1941 and ending in March 1944 when salvage efforts on the USS Utah...
New York: Appleton Press, 1897. — 135 p. In preparing this brief sketch of the most celebrated of our naval heroes, the author has been aided by the very full and valuable biography published in 1878 by his son, Mr. Loyall Farragut, who has also kindly supplied for this work many additional details of interest from the Admiral's journals and correspondence, and from other...
DoDo Press, 2008. — 268 p. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I. Despite his success in the Navy, his skills in actual command of a ship were not exemplary, and a number of vessels under...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2014. — 208 p. October 1864. The confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had sunk two federal warships and damaged seven others, taking control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. Twenty-one-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched a daring plan: to attack the fearsome warship with a few dozen men in two small wooden...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. The Captain from Connecticut is the definitive biography of the man who became a national hero as the commander of the USS Constitution in her dramatic victory over HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812. While Isaac Hull's outstanding seamanship was in evidence throughout his career, Maloney makes the case that it is ironic that he is remembered...
Essential Library, 2014. — 114 p. Each branch of the US armed forces has a unique job to do and important contributions to make. This title highlights the history and achievements of the US Coast Guard. Easy-to-read, engaging text explores the military branch's key missions and important roles in protecting the United States. Learn about cutting-edge technology and weapons, and...
United States Dept. of Defense, 2019. — 288 p. — (U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War). This historical volume introduces us to the Navy's river force and American advisers to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Navy and Marines securing the Rung Sat that was owned by Viet Cong early in the War offered our navy a river patrol craft that allowed for early naval intelligence attempts....
University Press of the Pacific, 2004. — 128 p. Throughout its history, the yard has been associated with names like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Kennedy. Kings and queens have visited the yard; its waterfront has seen many historic moments; and some of our Navy's most senior and most notable officers have called it home. Such legendary ships as USS Constitution and USS...
Texas Tech University Press, 2021. — 520 p. By now the world knows well the exploits of World War II admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and “Bull” Halsey. These brilliant strategists and combat commanders--backed by a powerful Allied coalition, a nation united, gifted civilian leaders, and abundant war-making resources--led U.S. and allied naval forces to victory against the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 288 p. This remarkable collection of works by some of the most authoritative naval historians in the United States draws on many formerly classified sources to shed new light on the U.S. Navy's role in the three-year struggle to preserve the independence of the Republic of Korea. Several of the essays concentrate on fleet operations during the...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — 352 р.
Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 286 p. A fascinating memoir of World War II by one of FDR’s inner circle—a man who experienced the war from both the White House and the bridge of a warship. Captain McCrea’s War chronicles Vice Adm. John L. McCrea’s experiences in WWII—working with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on difficult and unusual assignments, associating with royalty and...
NAL Caliber, 2014. — 544 p. Five ships against hundreds—the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen. America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England’s King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American...
Westholme Publishing, 2011. — 620 p. Finalist for the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's Award for Excellence in Naval Literature "Ashore as well as at sea, Tim McGrath paints an informative, engaging and highly entertaining portrait of this worthy but neglected hero of American independence. The author shows us a man who was a magnificent embodiment of common sense--and uncommon...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. Rear Admiral Terry McKnight, USN (Ret.) served as Commander, Counter-Piracy Task Force-Gulf of Aden. He wrote the first draft of the Navy's handbook on fighting piracy while serving as the initial commander of Combined Task Force 151, an international effort to deploy naval vessels from several nations in a manner designed to prevent piracy...
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...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 116 p. This study examines Operation SEALORDS, the capstone campaign conducted by the brown-water Navy in Vietnam. Specifically, this paper addresses the primary question: Was the SEALORDS campaign successful, and if so, what lessons can be learned from SEALORDS and how might the Navy employ brown-water forces in the future? This thesis...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 509 p. Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange--the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 168 p. Now, for the first time, comes a long-overdue book that presents all of the U.S. Navy's rich cargo of paranormal phenomena. There is the great Stephen Decatur, whose mournful apparition still stalks the halls of his famous home, said to be one of the most haunted spots in Washington, D.C. USS The Sullivan, now a floating museum, is the...
Goose Lane Editions, 2010. — 156 p. From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the corvettes and frigates in the 20th century, New Brunswick has played an important role in Canada's naval history. In 1881, the new Dominion of Canada chose...
Advantage Media Group, 2023. — 520 p. Thomas Modly had an eclectic career in the military, academia, business, and government when he answered the call to service in 2017 and returned to the Navy where his career began. His experience, as chronicled in these pages, tells the story of Secretary Modly’s quest to advance the Department of the Navy’s preparedness for the challenges...
Modern Publishing, 1995. — 328 p. A compendium of warships from the most respected name in the business provides detailed entries on all classes of ships from the turn of the century to the present
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 460 p. The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe. The story of the Navy from its birth through the Civil War and other 19th century conflicts through its victories...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 61 p. During the War of 1812 the United States government issued “letters of marque” to private individuals authorising them to attack, board and ransom British shipping. Among the most successful of these ships hailed from the port of Charleston harbour in South Carolina, they plundered the Atlantic seaboard searching for British sails on...
Blandford Press, 1987. — 160 p. A chronicle of the perilous missions of one of the most illustrious battleships of the US Navy - the "Iowa" class. It traces both the combat and peacetime careers of these vessels and the changes in their appearance, equipment, weaponry and structure, from World War II to the present. Wonderful different pictures and photos. Technical, but easy...
Routledge, 2014. — 329 p. This candid book documents for the first time the U.S. Navy's use of entrapment in pursuit of homosexuals in and around Newport, Rhode Island, during the early twentieth century. This most extensive systematic persecution of gays in American history occurred with the approval of Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary Franklin...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 360 p. Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898 - 1945 examines how the United States became a superpower through amphibious operations in order to project military power. While other major world powers pursued and embraced different weapons and technologies in order to create different means of waging war, the United States was one of the...
Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1944. — 578 p. NAVPERS 16116. May 1944 dated manual prepared by the Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Division on the ordnance used by the USN and gunnery techniques and practices.
McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010. — 376 p. In the opening months of 1781, General George Washington feared his army would fail to survive another campaign season. The spring and summer only served to reinforce his despair, but in late summer the changing circumstances of war presented a once-in-a-war opportunity for a French armada to hold off the mighty British navy while his own...
Ragged Mountain Press, 2008. — 340 p. In 1775 General George Washington secretly armed a handful of small ships and sent them to sea against the world's mightiest navy. From the author of the critically acclaimed Benedict Arnold's Navy, here is the story of how America's first commander-in-chief--whose previous military experience had been entirely on land--nursed the fledgling...
McGraw-Hill Press, 2008. — 340 p. In 1775 General George Washington secretly armed a handful of small ships and sent them to sea against the world's mightiest navy. From the author of the critically acclaimed Benedict Arnold's Navy, here is the story of how America's first commander-in-chief--whose previous military experience had been entirely on land--nursed the fledgling...
Harper Paperbacks, 2004. — 419 p. Then call us Rebels if you will we glory in the name, for bending under unjust laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause, we count as greater shame. -- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 12, 1862 April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension explode into civil war. And for those men who do not know in...
Harper Collins, 2005. — 385 p. At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the...
Ragged Mountain Press, 2006. — 418 p. In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American rebellion. Benedict Arnold’s Navy is the dramatic chronicle of that desperate battle and of the...
Verdun Press, 2016. — 332 p. Here in a single volume is one of the most authoritative, thoroughly documented accounts of the U.S. Navy’s war against Japan. This is the story of the achievements, defeats, and victories of both the American and the Japanese navies as they met and battled in the greatest naval war of all time. This dramatic narrative brings to life both the...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 228 p. In 1966, The Sand Pebbles captivated moviegoers across the United States, introducing many Americans to the little-known China Station of the 1920s. Based upon a novel by first-time novelist, Richard McKenna, the importance of The Sand Pebbles in contributing to popular history cannot be understated. Despite the importance of The Sand...
United States Government Printing Office, 2010. — 365 p. Product Description: To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, by Professor Albert A. Nofi, examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy's twenty-one "fleet problems" conducted between World Wars I and II, elucidating the patterns that...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 195 p. Like many a restless teenager before him, Charles Nordhoff craved excitement and in 1844, when barely 14, he managed to talk his way into the US Navy. A bookish lad who had been apprenticed to a printer, Nordhoff was better educated than most of his fellow seamen, and was well equipped to describe what became a three-year round-the-world adventure....
University Press of the Pacific, 2001. — 114 p. Throughout the United States, local residents customarily view their hometown U.S. Coast Guard units as intimate parts of the civilian community. Nowhere is this truer than in the Great Lakes region. Here, for almost 200 years, the lives of the people and Coast Guardsmen have been intermingled in a most special bond. As...
Greenwood Press, 1969. — 148 p. Here is an attempt to show the rise of the American Navy as it is known today. In this growth Theodore Roosevelt played a major role, for while he neither started the “New Navy” of steam and steel nor brought it to perfection, he did perform a valuable service by indicating the direction of future growth. His administration saw the opening of the...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 401 p. The U.S. Navy against the Axis tells the story of the U.S. Navy's surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. The book refutes the widely-held notion that the attack on Pearl Harbor rendered battleships obsolete and that aviation and submarines dominated the Pacific War. It demonstrates how the surface fleet...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 288 p. Ben Moreell was the first non-Naval Academy graduate to be awarded the four stars of an Admiral. He is still the only staff corps officer to be promoted to Admiral. The history of the U.S. Navy Seabees and the biography of Admiral Ben Moreell are inseparable. Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he began forming the...
Illustrator: Tooby Adam — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 84 p. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet was at the forefront of America's campaign in Vietnam for a decade, from the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that began it all to the final evacuation of South Vietnam. Its mission was highly strategic, and while its primary role was to provide carrier-based air power over North Vietnam – from...
Illustrator: Groult Edouard A. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 84 p. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was the most powerful in the US Navy. It was still dominated by battleships, but since the late 1930s had been developing naval aviation and integrating them with its battleship-led doctrine. This book is the first to examine the Pacific Fleet as it was...
Illustrator: Groult Edouard A. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 84 p. The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval operations in history. With the target beaches divided into two areas of responsibility – one US-commanded, one British – this armada launched a month-long operation to first support the landings, then to protect, supply, and...
Illustrator: Groult Edouard A. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 84 p. The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval operations in history. With the target beaches divided into two areas of responsibility – one US-commanded, one British – this armada launched a month-long operation to first support the landings, then to protect, supply, and...
McFarland and Company, 2018. — 228 p. Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790—when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine—through World War I, this book describes the service's national defense missions, including actions during the War of 1812, clashes with pirates, slave ships and Seminole Indians, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I...
University of Illinois Press, 2022. — 216 p. Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained...
United States Government Printing Office, 2010. — 288 p. Chronicles the U.S. Navy's role in the Middle East from the 1800s through the undeclared war of 1987-1988 with Iran. Explains the strategic, political, and commercial factors that affected American policy in the region and how Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were results of that policy.
Casemate, 2023. — 304 p. The story of the light cruiser USS Boise (CL-47), one of the most famous US combat ships of World War II. The Brooklyn-class light cruiser USS Boise (CL-47) was one of the most famous US combat ships of World War II, already internationally renowned following her participation in the naval battles in the Solomons in 1942. After repairs and...
Da Capo Press, 2001. — 409 p. — ISBN: 0306810697. Seventy-one American destroyers went down during World War II, and this meticulously researched book describes the history of each—from launch to the ship's final hours. Through these stories we travel from the stormy North Atlantic to the calm Mediterranean, from the East Coast of the United States to the vast reaches of the...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. — 320 p. In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal role played by colonial...
Naval Institute Press, 1992. — 330 p. Building on the highly successful A History of U.S. Coast Guard Aviation, this book details all aircraft used since the Coast Guard introduced its air arm in 1916. A great piece of history for USCG naval aviation.
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 288 p. Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small combatant built for escort duty. But its skipper imbued his brand-new crew with a fighting spirit to match their forebears, and in 1988 when the guided missile frigate was thrust into the Persian Gulf at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, there was...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 81 p. In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel was relieved of command of the United States Pacific Fleet and forced into retirement. Eight official investigations were conducted to determine his accountability for the attack. These investigations produced mixed and often contradictory findings. Though...
Zebra Books, 1985. — 420 p. This is a wonderful single source for details about US Navy Admirals who lead the fighting during WWII in the Pacific Theater: : Fleet Admiral Ernest King — Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz — Admiral Raymond Spruance -- Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner — Admiral William Halsey — Admiral Thomas Kinkaid.
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 76 p. — (Warships Illustrated №02). — ISBN 0-85368-718-8. The book is basically a lot of black and white naval photos with paragraph (or multiple paragraph) captions of each picture with information about the Soviet submarine or naval vessel. For its time it was an good photo reference. Only one picture for many vessels. Standard 80's...
Diamond Anniversary, 1989. — 176 p. Lisa Poole has managed to capture the essence of a real Navy town and the Navy base that has been an integral part of this town for nearly a century. The book covers the history of the Navy base from inception in 1914 up to the year 1989. The text of this book is limited but is more than made up for by the great, large scale historic...
Naval Institute Press, 1976. — 544 p. Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly respected by both the civilian and naval...
Thomas Crowell Company, 1971. — 328 p. The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is a federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the five U.S. service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine...
Dutton Caliber, 2016. — 388 p. The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II—the greatest naval battle in history. As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey’s unwitting American armada. It was the...
Penguin Books, 1981. — 873 p. At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. As intense and absorbing as a suspense novel, At Dawn We Slept is the unparalleled and exhaustive account of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is...
Regnery History, 2020. — 320 p. Here at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America’s greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the...
The History Press, 2007. — 288 p. One of history's greatest naval engagements, the Battle of Hampton Roads, occurred on March 8 and 9, 1862. On the first morning, the Confederate ironclad the CSS Virginia, formerly known as the Merrimack, sank two Union wooden warships, proving the power of the armored vessels over the traditional sailing ships. The next morning, the Virginia...
The History Press, 2015. — 352 р. On December 31, 1862, 16 men perished that stormy New Year's Eve when the USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The United States Navy's first ironclad warship rose to glory during the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, but there's much more to know about the USS Monitor. Historian John Quarstein has painstakingly compiled bits of...
Texas University Press, 2015. — 298 p. Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces. Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and...
Texas University Press, 2015. — 298 p. Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces. Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 252 p. In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s military actually does, day to day....
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...
Seafort Publishing, 2017. — 136 p. The Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel--LCVP for short, or simply the "Higgins boat" to most of its users--was "the boat that won the war," according to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Like the Jeep or the C-47 transport, it served in almost every theatre of World War II, performing unglamorous but vital service in the Allied cause. This book...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 252 p. Now for the Contest tells the story of the Civil War at sea in the context of three campaigns: the blockade of the southern coast, the raiding of Union commerce, and the projection of power ashore. The Civil War at sea was profoundly influenced by innovation and asymmetry—both sides embraced innovation, but differences in their...
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 177 p. From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere that were converted...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2016. — 82 p. Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker is a classic American Civil war biography by James Henry Rochelle. In writing this biographical Civil War sketch I have performed not a task, but a labor of love, for I was, during many years, both in times of peace and of war, intimately associated with the distinguished sailor whose...
Barnes and Noble, 2011. — 218 p. Published in 1882, when he was just twenty-four years old, this lively and at times pugnacious history established Roosevelt as somewhat of an iconoclast among historians, as he set out to disprove the prevailing idea that America's naval victories in the War of 1812 were due more to luck than to skill. Volume One begins by discussing the causes...
University of Missouri Press, 2016. — 344 p. This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I. When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America’s sailors were immediately forced to engage in the utterly new realm of anti-submarine warfare waged on, below and above the seas by a variety of small ships and the new...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 496 p. An exceptional piece of scholarship. Rossano clearly points out that military organizations in general, and a naval air force in particular, are built from the ground up and not the other way around. While we celebrate the exploits of the pilots, Rossano reminds us that there were myriad mechanics, constructors, paymasters, and even some...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 192 p. On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the American fleet met the British, and though they sustained heavy losses, Perry and his men achieved one of the most stunning victories in the War of 1812. Author Walter Rybka traces the Lake Erie...
Naval Institute Press, 2023. — 400 p. This nation‘s Cold War and Global War on Terror defense structures need an update. U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century provides such a framework for the changed world we live in, offering a detailed roadmap that shows how the United States can field a war-winning fleet that can also compete aggressively in peacetime against dangerous...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 142 p. Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how and why the Office of Naval Research became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Harvey Sapolsky shows that the ONR functioned as a "surrogate...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 208 p. Father Joseph T. O'Callahan was the first military chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor. An unlikely war hero, the bespectacled math professor who became the U.S. Navy's first Jesuit chaplain, served in combat in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He was on board the USS Franklin, an aircraft carrier known as "Big Ben," in the...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 1591147603. The book examines all of the nearly 500 of the Navy's unique miscellaneous auxiliary (AG) and unclassified miscellaneous (IX) vessels. It provides individual histories, specifications and illustrations for more than 40 of these ships in 32 chapters, as well as concise directory listings for another 400 vessels. The...
McFarland, 2022. — 498 p. In modern naval warfare, offensive and defensive mine operations and the ships that perform them often take a back seat to the more glamorous carrier strike groups, strategic deterrence patrols and anti-submarine operations. Despite their relatively small size and numbers, minecraft have enormous strategic and tactical value. With more than 200 photos,...
McFarland, 2021. — 557 p. During the past century, U.S. Navy patrol vessels have operated everywhere larger warships have--as well as in places where the big boats could not operate. These bantam warriors have performed in a variety of roles, from antisubmarine warfare to convoy escort and offensive operations against enemy forces afloat and ashore. Patrol vessels battled...
Naval Historical Center, 2007. — 144 p. This illustrated history covers the history of the U.S. Navy in the Middle East. America’s interests in the Middle East, southwest Asia, and eastern Africa date almost to the founding of the nation. Since World War II, the Navy has been the first line of defense for these interests. From the establishment of the Middle East Force (MEF) in...
Potomac Books, 2003. — 228 p. Dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the Navy's greatest heroes. Cushing transformed his reputation from a rabblerouser into a living legend, because he embodied the special qualities that the Navy demands of the men in whom it entrusts its most hazardous and...
Washington: Brassey's, 2004. — 119 p. Dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the Navy’s greatest heroes. Cushing transformed his reputation from a rabblerouser into a living legend, because he embodied the special qualities that the Navy demands of the men in whom it entrusts its most...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 368 p. The first complete biography of Matthew Calbraith Perry to appear in well over thirty years, this balanced assessment of the commodore's long and varied military career deals with both his strengths and weaknesses. Best remembered for leading a naval and diplomatic expedition to Japan in 1853 and 1854, Perry succeeded where others before...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1995. — 51 p. — (Warships 8). — ISBN: 0897473361. "The USS Nicholas (DD-449) was commissioned on 4 June 1942, a significant event for the US Navy. It marked the service entry of the first of 175 Fletcher Class destroyers. These destroyers represented a landmark design that would serve with distinction through WWII.
Naval Institute Press, 1975. — 759 p. All letters, manuscripts, notes, materials, clippings, photocopies, and other Mahan and Mahan-related data collected during the preparation of these historical volumes have been presented by the editors to the Naval War College Foundation for deposit in the U.S. Naval War College Naval Historical Collection in Newport, Rhode Island.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. — 208 p. By October, 1944, Japan's once-mighty naval power was almost extinguished. But in one last desperate bid, the Japanese gathered and combined their forces to defeat the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy. With more ships engaged than there were even in the gargantuan World War I Battle of Jutland-and 200,000 men fighting on the sea...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2012. — 288 p. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States is the amazing Civil war narratives of Captain Semmes. Semmes commanded the infamous CSS Alabama during the Civil War. Rafael Semmes , in addition to being a career naval officer , was also a lawyer , and the second book is an eloquent and articulate explanation of...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 59 p. In 1964 the Viet Cong was firmly entrenched in the Mekong Delta region. Using fear and terror tactics, the insurgency gained control of the population creating a safe haven for the movement to thrive and expand. The United States and the Government of South Vietnam recognized the infiltration problem in the Mekong Delta but their...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2019. — 246 p. Destroyers in Action, first published in 1945 as part of The U.S. Navy in Action Series, examines some of the important battles waged by the U.S. Navy destroyer fleet (especially those of World War II), and the stories of notable ships such as the Laffy, O'Bannon, Ward, and Prairie. Also included are profiles of the ships' officers and...
Free Press, 2004. — 255 p. In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates this almost forgotten chapter of the Civil...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 400 p. In a high-tempo series of operations throughout the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean, a small American fleet of destroyers and other naval vessels responded ably to several major international crises including the last days of the Russian Revolution and the 1920-1922 Turkish Nationalist Revolution. Officers and men of the navy's...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 248 p. Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic tells the story of the creation of the American Navy. Rather than focus on the well-known frigate duels and fleet engagements, Thomas Sheppard emphasizes the overlooked story of the institutional formation of the Navy. Sheppard looks at civilian control of the military, and how...
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 239 p. The author studies and analyzes, how naval America (United States) evolved from a twelfth-ranked sea power to a first-rate imperial fleet only in just eleven years at the final of the 19th century.
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 208 p. A pioneer in the field of deep-sea diving, George F. Bond helped develop the theory of saturation diving and the techniques and dive tables used by divers around the world. In this edited journal—made public for the first time—Bond offers a lively account of his work with the U.S. Navy's first manned undersea habitats, the Sealab...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (U.S. Navy Warship Series). I good reference source for early navy ships of the US Civil War Navy (during 1855-1883). As a shelf book i prize it highly I am familiar with Paul Silverstone for the naval Photos obtained from him in earlier years.
Routledge, 2024. — 494 p. — (The U.S. Navy Warship Series) The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001– 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century. The newest and sixth volume of the US Navy Warship Series provides insight into the technological innovations and modern weaponry featured in newer naval vessels,...
Taylor and Francis Group, 2012. — 445 p. — (U.S. Navy Warship Series). The Navy of World War II, 1922-1946 comprehensively covers the vessels that defined this momentous 24-year period in U.S. naval history. Beginning with the lean, pared-down navy created by the treaty at the Washington Naval Conference, and ending with the massive, awe-inspiring fleets that led the Allies to...
Routledge, 2006. — 292 p. — (U.S. Navy Warships). The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the "New Navy" and ordered removal of all obsolete ships. All US Navy ships since that time have stemmed from these first three cruisers. The numbering system in effect since 1920 was...
New York, Routledge, 2006. — 100 p. — (The U.S. Navy Warship Series). The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854, the first volume in the definitive five-volume U.S. Navy Warship series, comprehensively details all aspects of the ships that sailed in the nascent stages of the U.S. Navy. From its beginnings as battlers of Barbary Coast pirates, to challenging the awesome might of the Royal Navy...
Routledge, 2011. — 360 p. The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007, the fifth volume in the monumental U.S. Navy Warship series, presents an all-inclusive compendium of the ships that served in the U.S. Navy from the Cold War up through the present day. Featuring radical new developments in warships such as nuclear-powered submarines and carriers equipped with ballistic missiles,...
Routledge, 2011. — 360 p. The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007, the fifth volume in the monumental U.S. Navy Warship series, presents an all-inclusive compendium of the ships that served in the U.S. Navy from the Cold War up through the present day. Featuring radical new developments in warships such as nuclear-powered submarines and carriers equipped with ballistic missiles,...
Weidenfeld Military, 1991. — 96 p. Culled from official and private sources this photo collection represents a visual record of the vessels which have been at the forefront of postwar design and technological advance in the navy which has seen more operational duty than any other.
Public Affairs, 2022. — 304 p. A vivid new history of the Battle of Midway that transforms our understanding of the iconic turning point of the Second World War. The stunning and decisive battle of Midway was perhaps the most crucial naval battle in the Pacific theater during World War II. Walter Lord explained away the US victory at Midway against a numerically superior and...
Arcadia Publishing, 2001. — 224 p. In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered...
Kent State University Press, 2014. — 274 p. Experts weigh in on a pivotal engagement in the War of 1812. Few naval battles in American history have left a more enduring impression on America's national consciousness than the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry's battle flag emblazoned with the message "Don't Give Up the Ship," now...
Kent State University Press, 1997. — 448 p. Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior office in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest. Phelps, a native of Chardon, Ohio, was a prolific and...
Golden Springs Publishing, 2015. — 142 p. Union naval operations in Louisiana featured some of the most important operations of the Civil War, led by two of the US Navy's most distinguished officers. During the period from 1861 to 1863, Admirals David G. Farragut and David D. Porter led Union naval forces in Louisiana in conducting: a blockade of the New Orleans, the...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 208 p. A classic account of the 40-year Naval career of Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, whose contributions to Naval engineering helped usher in the development of the modern American Navy. Focusing on the years during and immediately after the Civil War, this study chronicles the extensive contributions made by Isherwood in expanding the size and...
Naval Institute Press, 2023. — 356 p. A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.S. Navy between the Civil War and World War II. Born in Montpelier, Vermont, George Dewey attended the still relatively new U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1858. He served with distinction in the Civil War in the Union Navy, saw a significant amount of...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 146 p. From our entry into the war at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 until the Japanese surrender in September 1945, every major offensive campaign launched by the United States was initiated by an amphibious assault. Our landings at North Africa in November 1942, at Sicily and Italy in July and September 1943, and at Normandy and Southern...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 269 р. As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the...
Goose Lane Editions, 2012. — 128 p. As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small warships -- the Provincial sloop Brunswicker, His...
McFarland and Company, 2021. — 327 p. This is the first published comprehensive survey of naval action on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for the years 1863-1865. Following introductory reviews of the rivers and of the U.S. Navy's Mississippi Squadron, chronological Federal naval participation in various raids and larger campaigns is highlighted, as well as...
McFarland, 2015. — 361 p. While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried high hopes and a metal hull. The makeshift CSS Arkansas, completed by Lt. Isaac Newton Brown and manned by a mixed crew of volunteers, gave the South a surge of confidence when it launched in 1862. For 28 days of...
McFarland, 2008. — 561 p. In the most detailed history of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the North's Western Flotilla, later the Mississippi Squadron. The...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 357 p. This is an in-depth study of the battle of Midway that reviews the many previous accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity with fresh documentation that has been released recently, including new material on the post-war analysis made by a US select committee. There are new viewpoints on the muddle among the US Admirals; the total...
The History Press, 2021. — 160 p. In April 1861, Lincoln declared a blockade on Southern ports. It was only a matter of time before the Union navy would pay a visit to the bustling Confederate harbor in Mobile Bay. Engineers built elaborate obstructions and batteries, and three rows of torpedoes were laid from Fort Morgan to Fort Gaines. Then, in August 1864, the inevitable...
Scribner, 2010. — 368 p. Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign. In that global conflagration, only one battlethe struggle for the Atlantic lasted from the very first hours of the conflict to its final day. Hitler knew that victory depended...
Scribner, 2016. — 416 p. From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in...
Digital Scanning Inc., 2004. — 271 p. The naval blockade of the Southern coast during U. S. Civil War (1861-1865) was rendered almost a game due to international rules for this. Though not a signatory bound by them, the U.S. found it prudent to respect them for sake of international relations. The first rule was that "paper" blockades were disallowed; you could not simply...
University of South Carolina Press, 1980. — 250 p. George Dewey was more than sixty years old when he attained worldwide fame as commander of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish-American War. Using keen intelligence, sheer nerve, and superior fire-power, Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines and established the United States as a...
Lyons Press, 2019. — 250 p. Author Jeff Spevak was confronted with a dilemma: How do you tell the story of a man who can't bring himself to talk about the most epic moment of his life? A clever fellow who'd scrapped to survive in a fashion that seems quaint today, Coleman tested himself as a teenager by swimming across lakes, building homes from foraged lumber, running a Navy...
Princeton University Press, 1944. — 404 p. Originally published in 1939, this work was the first to synthesize and analyze, in broad historical perspective, the ideas and forces that produced the ships, traditions, and doctrines of the US Navy. From a Mahanian perspective, the authors examine the roles and attitudes of those who shaped American naval policy, identifying crucial...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 181 p. This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the US Navy during the Cold War (Project Genesis, Sealab I, II and III). Supported by an engaging and novel empirical setting, the central themes of...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 384 p. Manned almost entirely by reservists, the USS Abercrombie (DE343) and her sister ships did the dirty work of the Pacific War. They escorted convoys, chased submarines, picked up downed pilots, and led the landing craft to the invasion beaches, yet they received little credit and less glory. This book is a stirring tribute to their heroic...
Henry Holt and Company, 2002. — 360 p. On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four days and nights. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 152 p. This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship for the first time and in the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations throughout the world during his...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2022. — 352 p. From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle, drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notorious. At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the...
University Alabama Press, 2007. — 288 p. The career of Washington Irving Chambers spans a formative period in the development of the United States Navy: He entered the Naval Academy in the doldrum years of obsolete, often rotting ships, and left after he had helped like-minded officers convince Congress and the public of the need to adopt a new naval strategy built around a...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 306 p. Although the defeat of Japan was the US Navy's greatest contribution to the Second World War, it also played a significant role in the battle against Hitler. Even before Germany declared war in 1941, US naval vessels were actively engaged in Atlantic convoy battles, and suffered their first casualties long before the Pearl Harbor attack...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 304 p. This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April 1917. Initially these ships were employed to visit various ports from the Baltic Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and Constantinople (today Istanbul), for the...
University Press of Florida, 2007. — 763 p. Crisis at Sea is the first comprehensive history of the United States Navy in European waters during World War I. Drawing on vast American, British, German, French, and Italian sources, the author presents the U.S. Naval experience as America moved into the modern age of naval warfare. Not limited to an operations account of naval...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 392 p. Victory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and Near Eastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants in the Versailles peace negotiations, the Navy was charged with executing the naval terms of the Armistice as well as preserving stability and peace. U.S. warships were deploying into the Near East,...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 304 p. This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April 1917. Initially these ships were employed to visit various ports from the Baltic Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and Constantinople (today Istanbul), for the...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 304 p. A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations, and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of US naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor....
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 368 p. This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war's top combat admirals has been long overdue until now. Battleship Commander explores Lee's life from boyhood in Kentucky through his eventual service as...
University Press of Kentucky, 2008. — 228 p. The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the water, eight remaining survivors swam...
Scribner, 2020. — 409 p. More than the story of a single, savage engagement, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. A Plain Sailorman in China is a biography of Cdr. Irvin Van Gorder Gillis, USN that recounts both his extraordinary family history – a fascinating slice of Americana in the 1800's – and Irvin's multi-faceted career as a naval officer for 25 years and then as successful rare Chinese book collector. Son of a U. S. Navy Rear Admiral, as a U.S....
Naval Institute Press, 1984. — 356 p. Provides a deeply chronological treatment of United States Navy and Marine Corps activities from the Revolution (1775-1783) to the attack on the USS Cole and the war in Afghanistan. Combing the historical documents and photos, the author has put together one of the most comprehensive studies of the United States Navy and Marine Corps....
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 168 p. This fast-paced narrative charts the history of the US Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British during the Revolution, the Barbary Wars, and the arduous conquest of...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 400 p. From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare--and the course of the American nation. Acclaimed military historian Craig...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 448 p. Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 150 p. This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British in the Revolution, the Barbary Wars,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 152 p. This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British in the Revolution, the Barbary Wars,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 445 p. Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "little about ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by prize-winning historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians until...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 252 p. International naval cooperation encompasses the interaction of the U.S. Naval Services with the navies and militaries of treaty allies and partners nations in support of mutual defense. In addition, the term can be used to define other bilateral and multilateral defense and diplomatic activities affecting naval affairs, such as...
Simon and Schuster, 2003. — 383 p. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the...
W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. — 560 p. — ISBN13: 9780393058475. Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution , the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders — particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams — debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or...
W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. — 592 p. Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders—particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams—debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 208 p. In early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "The Hurricane." Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen service in the Spanish-American War,...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 364 p. The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the...
Zenith Press, 2001. — 100 p. Hop on board for an up-close look at the Navy's destroyer fleet! Full of color photography, this book takes you inside the Spruance, Kidd, and Arleigh Burke class destroyers of the current Navy fleet. You'll also get a glimpse of the twenty-first century destroyer. Full technical specifications are included along with fascinating descriptions of the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2016. — 388 р. The naval historian presents a “well-written, fast-paced” study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil War News). As one of the most important transportation systems in the country, the Mississippi River became a strategically vital asset to both sides of the Civil War. The...
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. — 176 p. The Virginia Navy, led by Commodore James Barron, raised more than fifty vessels to aid the fight against the British Empire. The ships kept open vital trade passages to the West Indies that allowed for goods and supplies to reach American shores despite English blockades. Barron defended his birthplace at the Battle of Hampton, suffered...
Blair, 1989. — 481 p. Ironclads and Columbiads recounts the exciting battles and events that shook the coast of North Carolina during America's bloodiest war. Throughout the Civil War, North Carolina's coast was of great strategic importance to the Confederacy. Its well-protected coastline offered a perfect refuge for privateers who sallied forth and captured so many Union...
Lulu Books, 2018. — 465 p. In the early 1800s, American ships off the coast of North Africa routinely found themselves the targets of Muslim pirates. These sea raiders, or 'corsairs' as they were known, sought captives to enslave in the Ottoman Empire's galleys, mines and harems. When reports circulated of white Christians being shackled to oars, smashing rocks in mines and...
Naval Institute Press, 2006. — 425 p. A longtime military history professor at Virginia Military Institute and prolific author, Spencer Tucker examines the important roles played by the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War. His book makes use of recent scholarship as well as official records and the memoirs of participants to provide a complete perspective for the...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 429 p. A longtime military history professor at Virginia Military Institute and prolific author, Spencer Tucker examines the important roles played by the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War. His book makes use of recent scholarship as well as official records and the memoirs of participants to provide a complete perspective for the...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 368 p. The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. During this decade, the crew witnessed the trade disruptions of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the transportation of Confederate sailors to Central America, the French intervention in Mexico, and the growing presence of...
Merriam Press, 2015. — 325 p. The Hadley was a destroyer which served in the U.S. Navy and in early May 1945 was assigned to radar picket duty at Okinawa. On 11 May, a large force of Japanese aircraft attacked. Hadley fought off these attackers, but not without damage to itself. Hadley fought on, but was hit by a bomb and three kamikaze aircraft. Hadley shot down a record 23...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 320 p. A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States’ imperialist naval aspirations. Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce rather than military might. Michael...
Simon and Schuster, 2018. — 592 p. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a...
Naval War College Press, 1980. — 214 p. This essays describes about fraternal society is the Officers Corps of the U.S. Navy between two World Wars. From 1919 to 1941, the Navy, indoctrinated at Newport, formed the institutional patterns of kinship between two paradigms: what Frederick Merk called "Manifest Destiny and Mission."
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 488 p. For the men who served in America's Amphibious Forces during World War II, the conflict was an unceasing series of D-Days. They were responsible for putting men ashore in more than 200 landings throughout the conflict, most against well-entrenched enemy positions. Bloodstained Sands: US Amphibious Operations in World War II tells the story of...
Cutter Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. Historic battles, daring rescues, and covert missions—the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. Americans called it “Torpedo Junction,” Germans “Devil’s Gorge,” but historians know it as the Battle of the Atlantic—the Allied struggle to move desperately needed supplies from America to Europe through devastating assaults by...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2000. — 58 p. The USS Salem represents the ultimate in World War Two wartime cruiser design. She was a member of the Des Moines Class Heavy Cruiser the last of the all gun cruisers built by for US Navy. Certainly they were the largest, unless you consider the Alaska Class Battle Cruisers. Similar to the Oregon City class these Cruisers were about...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2015. — 72 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9857149-8-7. Photographic history of the cruisers of the Alaska class, of which three were laid down, but only two, USS Alaska CB-1 & USS Guam CB-2 were completed. Many have thought of these warships as battlecruisers, but the US Navy classified them as 'Large Cruisers'. Their completion late in the Second World War, only...
TAMU Press, 2001. — 441 p. Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's An Ocean in Common traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep...
Public Affairs, 2004. — 454 p. Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, and encrypted intelligence, and launched from foreign bases. For...
Public Affairs, 2004. — 464 p. Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, and encrypted intelligence, and launched from foreign bases. For...
Children's Press, 2007. — 56 p. Sea Fighter (FSF-1) is an experimental littoral combat ship under development (2005–2008) by the United States Navy. Its hull is of a small-waterplane-area twin-hull (SWATH) design, provides exceptional stability, even on rough seas. The ship can operate in both blue and littoral waters. For power, it can use either its dual gas-turbine engines...
McFarland, 2012. — 235 p. This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Coast Guard. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join, talking to recruiters, getting qualified, preparing for basic training, and learning what to expect at basic recruit training. The goal is...
Naval Institute Press, 2001. — 280 p. Profiles the remarkable naval career of four American women scientists in World War II--Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Hopper, and Mina Rees--and discusses their contribution to naval science in the area of computers, the use of weather in combat, oceanography, and applied mathematics. Kathleen Broome Williams further considers how...
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,...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 345 p. The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow chronicled their short and tragic story of heroism and defeat. Greatly outnumbered by vastly superior forces, and saddled with defective equipment; a lack of supplies, reinforcements, and air...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 244 p. By mid-February 1942, still the only major American fighting ship in Southeast Asia, the Cruiser Houston had lost one-third of her main armament to enemy bombers. She was in Darwin, Australia, with a convoy, when suddenly came the dread news: the Japanese were unleashing their big guns in an all-out attempt to capture the last of the...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2010. — 72 p. — (Warship Pictorial No. 35). Comprised of 72 pages with a total of 136 B&W and 20 color photos, all with extensive and informative captions. The Ticonderoga class of guided-missile cruisers is a class of warships in the United States Navy, first ordered and authorized in the 1978 fiscal year. The class uses passive phased-array radar...
Classic Warships, 2001. — 72 p. — (Warship Pictorial No. 12). The evolution of the Benson and Gleaves (Livermore) Destroyers classes perpetuated a pattern established with the 1,500-ton classes, i.e., similar designs prepared by two sources, Bethlehem and Gibbs & Cox, with small numbers of ships authorized in each fiscal year. Built on a hull of the same dimensions as the...
Classic Warships Publishing, 1998. — 58 p. — (Warship Pictorial 1). USS Indianapolis CA-35 - книга-фотоальбом по американскому тяжелому крейсеру «Индианаполис». СА-35 «Индианаполис» принадлежал к третьей серии американских тяжелых крейсеров и представлял собой слегка переработанный проект предыдущей серии типа «Нортхемптон». Было несколько усилено бронирование машинного...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2003. — 74 p. — (Warship Pictorial 18). This book covers the United States Navy battleship USS New Mexico, hull number BB-40 from construction in the 1915 to 1918 period, to her scrapping in the 1960s. This battleship saw extensive action during the World War Two period, both in the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns. Many rare photographs, some never...
Classic Warships, 1999. — 56 p. — (Warship Pictorial No. 5). — ISBN-10 0965482944, ISBN-13 978-0965482943. This book is a pictorial and illustrated history of the US Navy heavy cruiser USS SAN FRANCISCO CA-38. All the photos in this book were collected from the US National Archives and reproduced here to the highest standard. The illustrations contained within the book were...
Classic Warships, 2001. — 56 p. — (Warship Pictorial 14). Created as a warship resource guide covering all ships in a single class with official photographs, highlighted history and statistical sheet for each vessel. 2001, paper covers, oblong 11x8, glossy page stock, 56 Pages with over 90 Photos, copies of the USN " General Booklet of Plans ", and drawings of her weaponry....
Routledge Group, 2009. — 190 p. This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR) during 1890-2005, highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 224 р. Known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy," Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899–1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world's first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 336 р. Known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy," Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899–1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world's first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to...
Da Capo Press, 2015. — 296 p. Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II.On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy...
Екатеринбург: Зеркало, 1998. — 262+255 с. — (Морские битвы крупным планом. Вып. 15/1+15/2).
Переводчик: Александр Геннадьевич Больных.
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