Washington: 1946. — 172 p. An acoustic torpedo is a torpedo that aims itself by listening for characteristic sounds of its target or by searching for it using sonar (acoustic homing). Acoustic torpedoes are usually designed for medium-range use, and often fired from a submarine. The first passive acoustic torpedoes were developed nearly simultaneously by the United States Navy...
Dover Publications, 2013. — 48 p. This collection of magnificent original full-color paintings accurately depicts 100 amazing ships — from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops (2657 B.C.) and the Viking ships that visited North America around A.D. 1001 to Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria (1492), and the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Seawolf. 100 illustrations in full color.
London, Frank Cass Publishing, 2005. — 250 p. This volume brings together a set of scholarly, readable and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval mutinies of the 20th century, including Russia (1905), Brazil (1910), Austria (1918), Germany (1918), France (1918-19), Great Britain (1931), Chile (1931), the United States (1944), India (1946), China (1949),...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 432 p. At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk Bönker explores the far-reaching...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 292 p. This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the diversity in international approaches to the navy-coastguard nexus. It considers the evolving global maritime security landscape and the emergence and proliferation of maritime law enforcement agencies — collectively referred to here as “coastguards”—performing peacetime constabulary duties...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 239 p. This book sheds light on one of the most under-studied but powerful navies in the world. Using a multifaceted approach, it examines how the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) has sought to transform itself from a coastal naval force focused solely on deterring North Korea to a navy capable of operating in the blue waters of East Asia and beyond....
Naval War College Press, 1993. — 50 p. — (Newport Papers). On the afternoon of 31 May 1916, the British grand fleet and the German High Sea Fleet met in the only massed battle fleet action of the First World War. After a series of exchanges that lasted some twelve hours, both sides, in what became known as the Battle of Jutland, broke off battle and failed to engage each other...
London: Hambledon Press, 1987. — 517 p. Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design ""that might be both honourable and...
Checkmark Books, 1999. — 451 p. — ISBN: 978-0816040681. An Encyclopedia of Naval History details the evolution of naval history over the last five centuries. International in scope with a focus on the United States and Britain, the book features descriptions of every notable naval engagement from 1571 onward
Udyat, 2007. — 96 p. — (Ships of the World series). — ISBN: 978-8493472856. The proud history and exciting future of the world's naval armadas are brought to life in this expansive volume. From cruisers and destroyers to aircraft carriers and submarines, this study explores the technology, development, and impressive careers of these integral components of military tradition.
Praeger Security, 2006. — 251 p. Distant Victory is an examination of the great sea fight at Jutland (1916) that is more than a mere balance sheet of ships sunk and lives lost, or an account of which fleet fled before the other. Rather, it is an a retelling of the battle that reveals its long-term consequences set in motion by the decisions both the Germans and the British made...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 222 p. Why governments want navies, how they use naval force for political purposes, and what changes this has brought to the world are questions which still matter at the uncertain end of the 20th century. Here James Cable picks the political fruit of five centuries of naval history. He cites examples in which the objective was clear and success or...
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. — 403 p. First published in Great Britain in 1985 by Conway Maritime Press. This book is dedicated to the naval weapons of WW II. Read this book and you will form clear apprehension about various types of weapons which are belonged to the different countries - participants of WW II. The list of countries includes: Great Britain, the...
New York: Macmillan Company, 1967. — 286 p. Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first...
David & Charles Publishers, 1979. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-715376-89-6. The World's Navies. An illustrated encyclopedia of the naval forces of every nation with full specifications of their equipment and details of their strength and organisation.
Sutton Publishing, 1999, 192 p. — ISBN10: 0750921544, ISBN13: 9780750921541. Richard Compton-Hall has combined meticulous research with his own experience as a submariner to provide an illuminating insight into the inventions and motivations of the early submarine pioneers. Wing Collars and Sea Boots Good Thinking and a Quintessential Chymist Inspiration from Above Not Going...
Barnes & Noble, 1999. — 327 p. — ISBN: 076071259X. Battleships and Carriers contains 300 of the most important and influential capital ships to have sailed the seas. This book also includes the greatest aircraft carriers that served during World Wars 2 and 11, and such active fighting vessels as the Hermes, George Washington, Enterprise and Ark Royal.
Routledge, 2019. — 346 p. This ground-breaking book provides the first study of naval ideology, defined as the mass of cultural ideas and shared perspectives that, for early modern states and belief systems, justified the creation and use of naval forces. Sixteen scholars examine a wide range of themes over a wide time period and broad geographical range, embracing Britain, the...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 256 p. Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare analyzes the tactics, techniques, and weaponry of naval warfare from the ancient period to the modern day. Beginning with Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III’s victory over the piratical Sea Peoples in 1190 BC, and coming up-to-date with the use of aircraft carriers and the latest computerized weapons technology,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 198 p. This edited volume analyzes national security issues with maritime implications, and, specifically, naval projects and postures of main South Atlantic countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa. Additionally, it provides comprehensive and multi-level analysis of the interplay among national interests in the processes of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009, 268 p. — ISBN10: 080321930X, ISBN13: 9780803219304. Studies in War, Society, and the Militar For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called ships of the line dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost among the great naval powers were Great Britain and...
Naval War College Press, 2019. - 143 p. - (Newport Papers). This Newport Paper will examine the role of offshore islands in twentieth-century East Asian history, in particular those islands in the Taiwan Strait that were disputed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) during the 1950s and afterward, and how these apparently insignificant islands...
Naval War College Press, 2010. — 273 p. — (Newport Papers). Piracy is a basic and fundamental concern for all navies. From almost the beginning of state-sponsored navies, piracy suppression has been one of their major responsibilities — when Julius Caesar was captured by pirates in 76 BCE, the first thing he did after paying the pirates’ ransom and being released was to fit...
Naval War College Press, 2013. — 341 p. — (Newport Papers). The sixteen case studies in this book reflect the extraordinary diversity of experience of navies attempting to carry out, and also to eliminate, commerce raiding during long time: from 1755 to 2009 years. Because the cases emphasize conflicts in which commerce raiding had major repercussions, they shed light on when,...
Routledge, 2006. — 343 p. This new collection of up-to-date essays by well-known scholars covers the most significant naval blockades of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Napoleon's Continental Blockade of England and the American Civil War, as well as blockades in more recent conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Persian Gulf...
New York: Routledge, 2011. — 235 p. This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and...
Naval War College Press, 2015. — 231 p. — (Newport Papers). Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies of Naval Power and the Nonuse of Military Force, edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S. C. M. Paine, presents nine historical cases of the use of navies in non-military missions. These studies, by established and emerging scholars in a wide variety of fields, support current...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 247 p. This is the first scholarly book examining naval coalition warfare over the past two centuries from a multi-national perspective. Containing case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, it also examines the impact of international law on coalitions. Together these collected essays comprise a...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 413 p. During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning a direct fight. The Germans...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2014. — 328 p. When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 170 p. In the vast literature of the First World War there has never been a naval atlas that depicts graphically the complexities of the war at sea, and puts in context the huge significance of the naval contribution to the defeat of Germany. With more than 125 beautifully designed maps and charts, the atlas sets out to visualise the great sea...
WM Paperbacks, 2013. An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disasters. From the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of insufficient planning, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others were caused by ideas that didn't...
Naval War College Press, 2012. — 165 p. Selected Papers and large Essays from the Sixteenth Naval History Symposium held at the United States Naval Academy 10–11, September 2009. At this book published the twelve Essays for different topics from Naval and Maritime campaigns and historical moments of the European and U.S. navies from 1861 to 1972 years.
Leonaur Ltd., 2007. — 176 p. The wars against Napoleonic France and Spain in the early years of the nineteenth century have long fascinated historians and casual readers who are enchanted by the colour and romance of those incredible times. No aspect of the period has generated more interest and enthusiasm than the war at sea-fought between great naval commanders whose names...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 464 p. Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Because radar was not invented until the mid-1930s, fleet air...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 900 p. This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what Friedman's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery - it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It traces the growing aerial threat from its inception in WWI and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of WWII, highlighting in...
Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 977 p. Glossary and abbreviations. Introduction . Units of Measurement. Guns . British Guns. German Guns. US Guns. French Guns. Italian Guns. Russian Guns. Japanese Guns. Austrian Guns. Spanish Guns. Swedish Guns. Other Navies’ Guns. Torpedoes . British Torpedoes. German Torpedoes. Us torpedoes. French Torpedoes. Italian Torpedoes. Russian...
Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 158 p. Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy warships were captured in...
Naval War College Press, 1993. - 405 p. The Proceedings of a Conference on the Works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond (Naval War College Historic), what deed in September 1992 in Newport. This book consisted from 14 large essays about Naval Strategy, Tactics, Armor and Education during XIX-XX centuries of the naval history of the different navies.
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 401 p. "Before Jutland" is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-1915 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic. Author James Goldrick reexamines one of the key periods of naval operations in the First World War, arguing that a focus on the...
Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2011. — 360 p. — ISBN: 0756671868. A visual journey through 3,000 years of naval warfare-now in paperback! From the clash of galleys in Ancient Greece to deadly encounters between nuclear-powered submarines in the 20th century, explore every aspect of the story of naval warfare on, under, and above the sea.
Victoria & Albert Pubns, 2003. — 352 p. Interspersing topical chapters with chronological ones, Guilmartin (history and early modern European history, Ohio State U.) explores how the Mediterranean system of armed conflict at sea operated over the course of the 16th century. Among his findings is that the war galley held it own against the broadside sailing vessel into the...
New York: Arco Publishing Company Inc., 1977. — ISBN10: 0668041072, ISBN13: 978-0668041072. Development of Submarine Technology The Color Plates Early Submarines Submarine Development 1918-45 The Modern Era Some Typical A/S Weapons for Surface Ships Some Submarine Weapons Some Airborne A/S Systems Comparative Data
Indiana University Press, 2004. — 186 p. Called by some a "Mediterranean Jutland," the Battle of the Otranto Straits (15 May 1917) involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. Although fought by light units with no dreadnoughts involved, Otranto was a battle in three dimensions — engaging surface vessels, aircraft, and subsurface weapons (both submarines...
London: UCL Press Ltd., 1999. — 356 p. From the author of "Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century" and "The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815", this book serves as a single- volume survey of war at sea and the expansion of naval power in the 18th century. Examines the development of warships and the evolution of sea power over nearly two centuries. The book is...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 256 p. The Royal Navy had ruled the sea unchallenged for 100 years since Nelson triumphed at Trafalgar. Yet when the Grand Fleet faced the German High Seas Fleet across the grey waters of the North Sea near Jutland the British battleships and cruisers were battered into a draw, losing far more men and ships than the enemy. The Grand Fleet far...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2011. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1848845588, ISBN13: 978-1848845589. Allied leaders and military planners realized early in preparations for the invasion of NW Europe that the massive forces required to defeat Hitler’s armies needed constant resupply of men, equipment, ammunition, fuel and other materials. These would have to come in by sea but it was known...
Naval War College Press, 1995. — 160 p. — (Naval War College Historical Monograph). The hull of the old ship of naval history, stripped of her tackle and ornament may well be food for worms, but the subject on which naval historians focus should not be overlooked or lost. It can appear again in a new model, corrected and amended by a new breed of historians, who work with wider...
London: Routledge, 2000. — 428 p. Maritime strategy and naval power in the Mediterranean touches on migration, the environment, technology, economic power, international politics and law, as well as calculations of naval strength and diplomatic manoeuvre. These broad and fundamental themes are explored in this volume.
Naval War College Press, 2011. — 354 p. Talking about Naval History is a collection twenty essays selected from the writings of John B. Hattendorf, Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College, between 2001 and 2009. They represent a wide historical perspective that ranges across nearly four centuries of maritime history. A number of these pieces...
The Boydell Press, 2003. — 276 p. This volume is both a restatement of current interpretations of sea power in the middle ages and the Renaissance and a general introduction to naval and maritime history over four and a half centuries. The book offers broad conclusions on the role and characteristics of armed force at sea before 1650, conclusions that exploit the best current...
London: Cassell, 2000. — 224 p. The nineteenth century saw several major innovations in naval warfare. Reliable steam engines made it so that ships no longer depended on the wind and could maneuver more freely. At the same time, new explosive shells were developed, replacing cannonballs, and no wooden ship could withstand them. In response to these shells, a new class of...
Pen & Sword Ltd 2009. — 366p. — ISBN: 978-1-84832-019-2. The capabilities that make naval aviation stand apart from flying ashore are the techniques and technologies that allow aircraft to take off from and land on moving vessels, and to navigate over the featureless ocean in between. That man would succeed in developing them was not always obvious, and the early pioneers...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. — 342 p. Navies in Northern Waters (1721-2000) is a collection of articles covering the roles played by the secondary navies of northern European powers and the United States within the maritime balance of power. The contributions covering the 18th and 19th centuries focus on their relations with each other as they sought to create a counterweight...
Naval War College Press, 2011. - 221 p. - (Newport Papers). This study is about innovations in Carrier Aviation (from 1919 to the Present time) and the spread of those innovations from one navy to the navy of a close ally. The innovations are the angled flight deck; the steam catapult; and the mirror and lighted landing aid that enabled pilots to land jet aircraft on a...
Naval War College Press, 2005. - 108 p. - (Newport Papers). It would in any case have been desirable to review the Transatlantic Naval relationship (from 1940) more than a decade after the end of the Cold War, taking account of the interlinked processes of globalization and a changing security agenda. The events of 11 September 2001 and the publication of the U.S. national...
Anness Publishing, 2007. — 100 p. — ISBN: 1844762998. More than 175 archive and museum photographs, illustrations and diagrams bring to life the history, construction, appearance and function of these amazing fighting vessels. An illustrated history of the origins and evolution of early battleships.
The Overlook Press, 2001. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-585670-40-5. Superb recounting, sometimes in horrific detail, and analysis of the great sea battles. 40 B&W illustrations.
3d Edition. — Nudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. — 814 p. This bibliography is a revised edition of the bibliography Submarine Warfare in the 20th & 21st Centuries, 2003, which is in turn a revised and expanded version of Submarine Warfare in the 20th Century, 2002. It is a bibliography listing books, periodical articles, and web sites related to submarine and...
London, Cassell, 2002. — 224 p. — (Cassell's History of Warfare). In 1914 international naval power was measured in dreadnought battleships. They were the index of national power like the Nuclear Club of those 21st century countries armed with atomic weapons. Every nation with pretensions to world power joined the Battleship race, from France and Russia to Argentina and Chile....
Reaktion Books, 2012. — 274 p. The escalation of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led commentators to call the area the new Barbary, but the Somali pirates cannot compare to the three hundred years of terror supplied by the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa captured and...
London: Chatham Publishing, 1999. — 125 p. — ISBN10: 1861760426, ISBN13: 978-1861760425. The author looks at why major navies engaged in the development of midget submarines during World War II.
Bellona, 2002. — 165 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Oliwa, also Battle of Oliva or Battle of Gdańsk Roadstead, was a naval confrontation that took place on 28 November 1627 during the Polish–Swedish War slightly north of the port of Danzig (Gdańsk) near the village of Oliva (Oliwa). It was the largest naval battle fought by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy , and...
Lyons Press, 2011. — 337 p. Angus Konstam sets sail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction. Pirates takes us into the depths of the pirate's dark world, examining the many colorful characters from Cretans and Vikings to French corsairs and the British rogues of the golden age of piracy, such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd and...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 240 p. In their heyday, the sight of a pirate ship on the horizon would strike terror into the hearts of their intended victims. The colorful yet fearsome reputation of the pirate still resonates today and the sight of the skull and crossbones retains its thrilling power. The lives of the most famous of their brethren have been immortalized, initially...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 202 p. Ships have been part of military campaigns since the Ancient world, and this expertly illustrated and detailed Spotters Guide offers a look at the 40 most iconic and recognizable ships throughout history. From the Viking longship through to the powerful modern aircraft carriers, and from the ironclads of the American Civil War to the awesome...
Cassell, 2005. - 231 p. Chinese 作 者： （英）兰伯特 著，郑振清，向静 译 出 版 社： 上海人民出版社 发行时间：2005年12月01日 时间： 2008/02/24 12:35:07 发布2008/02/25 12:14:03 更新 The 17th and 18th centuries witnessed the rise of fighting sailing navies, which became instruments of worldwide strategic power. Spain, Holland, France, and Britain were the leading protagonists; after the eclipse of the first two, the...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 427 p. Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812--winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal--turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "sea powers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to...
London: Cassell, 2000. — 224 p. — (Cassell History of Warfare). Our fascination with the drama of war at sea is as strong today as it was in the heyday of the sailing ship.This book, written by one of the world's foremost authors on naval warfare, describes the dramatic battles of an age when sail was supreme. Andrew Lambert's comprehensive history examines key naval conflicts...
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. — 640 p. — ISBN 0-7867-1238-4. In the words of those who fought them, here are historic sea battles, ranging from broad views of the whole arena of engagement as seen by those in command, to the personal and hardhitting insights of non-commissioned officers and men in the thick of it. From the Battle of Salamis, recounted by the great...
Book Club Edition,1976. - 256 p. ISBN: 0356080765 Incomplete! Only first 128 p.! The half-century spanned by the ships in this book saw the beginning of an ever quickening tempo in the design, construction, propulsion, armament and protection of fighting ships, which continues today in this age of gas turbines and rocket missiles. Now navies are accustomed to radical change,...
Indiana University Press, 1985. — 208 p. This first general survey of European naval and maritime history for the period from A.D. 300 to 1500 focuses on Western Europe, including the Baltic, North Sea, and Atlantic traditions, and on the Mediterranean, particularly Byzantine and Moslem naval history. The authors survey a number of interconnected areas: the use of seapower in...
Ballantine Books, 2004. — 896 p. In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant...
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co, 1941. — 135 p. Cover the warships used by the different national naval forces, and provide data on their characteristics. Illustrations comprise photographs of typical ships of the principal navies.
Routledge, 1998. — 210 p. Rear Admiral Raja Menon contends that nations embroiled in Continental Wars have historically had poor maritime strategies. He develops the argument that navies that have been involved in such wars have made poor contributions to political objectives, and outlines future strategies.
Zenith Press, 2001. — 480 p. Covering every major warship type from the American ironclads of the 1860s through today's super-sophisticated aircraft carriers, this fact-filled directory describes more than 200 fighting vessels, providing technical specifications along with development and service histories. Intricately detailed full-color drawings vividly bring the warships to...
W. W. Norton Company, 2008. — 800 p. The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits. In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable...
London, Routledge, 2009. — 629 p. Naval Warfare 1919-1945 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval theatres and those powers performing major, as...
US Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 350 p. The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Konigliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 360 p. The Mediterranean Sea is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia and Africa meet. It was the most intensely contested body of water in World War II. More major naval actions were fought in the Mediterranean than in the Atlantic or Pacific. Its waters witnessed carrier strikes, battle-line shootouts, cruiser-destroyer engagements, convoy...
ABC-Clio, 2004. — 283 p. Cruisers and Battle Cruisers explores the pivotal importance of cruiser-class ships to naval warfare and, in a wider scope, world politics. In vivid but accessible detail, it describes the milestones of cruiser design and deployment from mid-19th century development of steam-propelled, ironclads to the World War I introduction of battle cruisers; from...
Indiana University Press, 2006. — 141 p. The battle of Heligoland Bight was the first major action between the British and German fleets during World War I. The British orchestrated the battle as a warning to the German high command that any attempt to operate their naval forces in the North Sea would be met by strong British resistance. Heligoland Island guarded the entrance...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 390 p. Commanders at sea struggle not only with the unpredictability of natural elements, but also with a shroud of uncertainty often referred to as the "fog of war." Over the centuries most admirals yielded to the natural temptation to find in new technologies a means to assert centralized control over their forces. But other commanders have...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 152 p. During World War I (1914-1918) the North Sea became the principal battleground for the navies of Britain and Germany. This book explains in chronological order the major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm II’s High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also includes other important operations such as mine-laying and sweeping, the Zeppelin...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 262 p. — ISBN: 1408844362. The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years. The fabric and organization of this...
Bellona, 1993. — 162 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 238 p. When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at once the major dividing barrier and the major connecting element. In this study, the technological limitations of maritime traffic are considered in...
Allen & Unwin, 2003. — 363 p. Naval history is sometimes criticised for concentrating on the technical side of operations at the expense of the human. The Face of Naval Battle breaks new ground in that for the first time the authors closely examine the individual and group experience of maritime warfare in the twentieth century. What is it that makes naval battle different from...
Krieger Publishing Co., 1984. — 689 p. This is how the world works - as the Phoenicians transporting good across the Aegean, they brought ideas, religions, and parts of other societies with them and all protected by the navies of those city-states with whom they traded. It worked then, it worked for the Brits, and it works for us now. A must-read for everyone involved in...
Cassell, 2001. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0304353086. The beginnings of the aircraft carrier were difficult. Guy Robbins' detailed history tells of the early days in World War One, when seaplanes had to be lowered from the ship to take off from the sea, and whinched aboard again on their return. These impracticalities led eventually to aircraft that could take off and land from a long,...
London: Chatham Publishing, 1997. — 134 p. Origins Design and construction 1904-1915 Battlecruiser revival Perspective drawings Machinery Armament Armour Summary of Service Sources Folding plans of HMS Queen Marry 1913
Hailed as the most extensive photographic record of the naval side of World War II ever produced, this book is a must for anyone interested in naval history. From Robert Capa's images of the mayhem on Omaha Beach to the amateur photography of a serviceman on board a destroyer, the collection offers a moving and informative look at all theaters. The introduction of the 35-mm...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 248 p. Maritime Power in the Black Sea provides the first comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the comparative maritime power of the six littoral states in the Black Sea - Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria. This book examines the maritime capabilities and assets of each of the six littoral Black Sea states and also...
ABC-CLIO, 2004. — 229 p. — (Weapons and Warfare). From ancient times to World War II and the postwar period, Battleships charts the evolution of the vessel that ruled the seas — a vessel that, until the arrival of the aircraft carrier, would be the most expensive and complex human-made moving object in history. Over 40 photographs make clear the defining features of each...
University of California Press, 1981. — 538 p. A study of European naval exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, Venice and Portuguese maritime Empires. In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time...
Portsmouth: Griffin & Co, 1880. — 309 p. This book containing a complete and concise account of the rise and progress of submarine warfare; also a detailed description of all matters appertaining thereto, including the latest improvements.
London: Routledge Group, 2001. — 263 p. — (Warfare and History). This book looks at the transition of wooden sailing fleets to the modern steel navy. It details the technological breakthroughs that brought about this change - steam-power, armour, artillery and torpedoes, and looks at their affect on naval strategy and tactics. Part of the ever-growing and prestigious Warfare...
Reaktion Books, 2004. — 336 p. Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the dawn of the twenty-first century and beyond. In a series of case studies Lawrence Sondhaus examines the national fleets of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Chile and the Soviet Union, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 417 p. This is a major new naval history of the First World War (1914-1918) which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role of critical innovations in...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 384 p. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world’s oceans from the admiral’s chair, showing...
Seaforth Publishing, 2008. — 256 p. Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many...
Frank Cass, 2005. — 218 p. The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This is an...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 464 p. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In...
Naval War College Press, 2008. - 155 p. - (Newport Papers). In September 2005, fifty-five chiefs of navies and coast guards, along with twenty-seven war college presidents from around the world gathered in Newport for the Seventeenth International Seapower Symposium. We shared perspectives on a broad range of issues important to the global maritime community and individual...
Routledge, 2009. — 432 p. The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has been the basis for our prosperity and security. This is even more the case, now, in the early 21st century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalized world trading system. Navies...
University Press of Kentucky, 2004. — 608 p. Nineteen months before the D-day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on...
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000. — 282 p. Great technological advances were made in almost every area of maritime military activity between 1793 and 1914. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Napoleonic wars marked the zenith of fighting sail and wooden hulls. By the dawn of the twentieth century, heavily armed iron-hulled warships, powered by oil-fired burners and...
Indiana University Press, 2009. — 329 p. Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944). Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls together all of the existing...
Naval War College Press, 2016. — 318 p. Major Naval Pacific operations (during 1941-1945) represent an area of study of operational art that Western naval theoreticians and planners have generally neglected. Too much emphasis is given instead to advanced technologies and tactics of weapons, at the expense of combined-arms tactics. The absence of an immediate and serious threat...
Naval War College Press, 2008. — 141 p. Major Naval operations are the principal methods by which naval forces achieve operational objectives in a conflict at sea. The U.S. Navy and other major Western navies planned and executed numerous major naval operations in World War II as part of maritime and, in several cases, land campaigns. Major naval operations have been conducted...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. This new volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the theory and practice of operational warfare at sea. The book is unique in using diverse sources and examples to present a comprehensive topical description and analysis of the key components of operational warfare at sea today. It opens with a survey of the emergence of operational...
New York, Routledge Group, 2004. — 452 p. This A-Z biographical guide covers the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Featuring influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators, it is an invaluable guide to those who...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series) — xxi, 235 p. ; 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour. - Fits neatly into a burgeoning field of naval history that looks beyond traditional narratives - Includes a selection of leading scholars in relevant fields - Brings together and synthesises a series of contrasting case...
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — xxi, 235 p. ; 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series). Fits neatly into a burgeoning field of naval history that looks beyond traditional narratives Includes a selection of leading scholars in relevant fields Brings together and synthesises a series of contrasting case studies...
Autonomedia, 2003. — 210 p. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Moslem corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors Renegadoes? Or did they abandon and...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. — 240 p. Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf — the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship...
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. — 308 p. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) marked the end of the battleship as the centerpiece weapon of the U.S. Navy in the future, the aircraft carrier would be the star of the fleet. In this oral history edited by Wooldridge, Ramsey Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum, we see how Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's flyers learned...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 224 p. Without the aircraft carrier, the Japanese would not have brought the United States into the Second World War through their attack on Pearl Harbour; without the carrier, the United States could not have rolled back the Japanese forces spread across the wide reaches of the Pacific and carried the war to Japan itself. Thus is can be argued that...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 349 p. To the US Navy they were CVEs! To the Royal Navy auxiliary carriers! To crews of endangered merchantmen in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans they were heaven-sent protection! To their crews they were Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable! The need for air cover against enemy aircraft and submarines brought unprecedented demand for carriers. Over 100...
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