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...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 160 p. For more than 150 years it was the world’s most powerful force: between victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and the withdrawal from ‘east of Suez’ in the 1960s, the ships of the Royal Navy were ubiquitous. From Newfoundland to New South Wales and Cyprus to Ceylon, the Royal Navy protected British interests, projecting British power, and maintaining...
Stockholm: Jos. Seligmanns, 1890. - 511 p. This book by the famous Swedish historian Axel Zettersten (1839-1909) is devoted to the study of the initial period of the history of the Swedish navy from its creation (in 1522) to the era of the rise of the Kingdom of Sweden during the reign of King Gustav Adolf, who, in addition to transforming his army, also dealt with development...
Sveden, Norrtelje tidnings boktr., 1903. - 636 p. A fundamental study on the history of the Swedish navy (from 1635 to 1680), which has already become a classic. This work was written by the Swedish historian and naval official Axel Zettersten (1839-1909). The book provides an excellent and detailed account of the command and organizational structure of the Swedish fleet...
Uppsala, 1949. - 84 p. A joint study by two Swedish naval historians provides unique biographical and service data (collected in archives) on all admirals and captains of the Swedish navy who served on government and privateer ships in the 16th century. The authors paid special attention to the Swedish naval officers who took part in the famous naval Northern War (1563-1570) in...
Aktuellt och Historiskt. — 1959. — p. 111-154. Karl X Gustaf kom i juli 1655 till Pommern för att därifrån anträda det polska fälttåget. Han möttes här av underrättelsen, att den holländska schoutbynachten Cornelis Tromp låg med en flottai Köpenhamn beredd att löpa in i Östersjön. Han skall defrvid ha låtit undslippa sig ett yttrande, vars innehåll i litteraturen återges...
Nordic Academic Press, 2017. — 224 p. Den 5 juni 1676, fem dagar efter att regalskeppen Kronan och Svärdet förlist under slaget vid Öland, kom även Riksäpplet på drift och sjönk vid Dalarö skans. Händelsen har fått en undanskymd roll i historieböckerna vilket även spillt över på hur vraket hanterats. Trots att det ligger lättillgängligt i Stockholms skärgård har vraket aldrig...
Goteborg: Sjöfartsmuseets Förlag, 1944. — 184 s. An excellent and detailed description of the famous naval battle of the island of Fehmarn (October 13, 1644) in the Baltic between the Swedish and Danish fleets, compiled in honor of the tercentenary of this battle by a special naval historical commission under the Swedish Ministry of Defense on the basis of archival documents....
Uppsala Universitet Press, 1997. — 46 p. The purpose of this paper is to look into the relations of the Swedish Coastal Fleet body of officers during the late Gustavianian era (1792-1809). The questions at issue in this paper is the proportions of persons with noble titles, formal education and the experiences of employment in the merchant navy or foreign armed forces among the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 1398 p. In 1859 the French navy was at a high point, having fought alongside the British in the Crimean War and developed a formidable fleet of fast wooden-hulled steam ships of the line. But in that very year, the world’s navies had to start over again when French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme introduced the ironclad battleship. The French navy...
Севастополь: Просвіта, 2013. — 608 с. — ISBN: 978-966-97292-1-7. Широко використовуючи недавно відкриті архівні джерела, історичні матеріали, свідчення багатьох учасників подій на Чорноморському флоті в 1917 — 1921 p. та часу будівництва Військово-морських сил сучасної України у час становлення її незалежності, автор досліджує процес військово-морського будівництва в Україні на...
Archivum Ottomanicum. — № 6. — 1980. — p. 211-280. The sultanate of Suleiman I is considered the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire. In the West his is known as Suleiman the Magnificent while in the Middle East he is known as Suleiman the Lawgiver. His exploits at the naval level are a little more known and renown. In 1522 Sultan Suleiman took the long evasive Island of Rhodes....
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 211 p. Of all the major navies of the 19th century, that of the Ottoman Empire is least known. Modern Turkish archives preserve a quantity of material upon which the authors have drawn. This illustrated book contains a full list of all ships with their technical details, and ship plans of the principal classes, along with a chronology of naval...
Bilkent University, 2006. — 179 p. This thesis analyzes the political deeds of the Ottoman corsairs in the Western Mediterranean between the years, 1505 and 1535. It tries to evaluate their place in the broader framework of the European politics of the time. It aims to analyze the perception of the both sides of the international struggle for the covered period, namely that of...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 295 p. While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean were dominated by the Ottoman Navy. Yet to date, little is known about the seafarers who made up the sultans' fleet, the men whose naval mastery ensured that an empire from North Africa to Black Sea expanded and was...
University of Birmingham, 2015. — 314 p. The main focus of this study is to examine the modernization of the Ottoman navy during the reign of Sultan Abdülaziz, exploring naval administration, education, and technology. Giving a summary of the transformation of shipbuilding technologies and bureaucratic institutions of the Ottoman naval forces between 1808 and 1861, it analyzes...
University of Louisville, 1998. — 336 p. As seafaring states evolve into nations and nations into empires, the power that protects such maturation is seapower. Geographic isolation via deserts or seas can obtain time for political and social evolution. However, only a formidable naval presence can ensure external security in order that internal reforms take root. No major...
Kronik Kitap, 2018. — 568 p. “Osmanlı” adını verdiğimiz korsanlar hangi etnik kökenlerden gelmektedir? Bunlar fırsatçı yağmacılar mı, yoksa İslam’ın bayrağını taşıyan nusret-karin din savaşçıları mıdır? Mühtedi ve Hıristiyan denizciler Müslüman dünyaya ne kadar adapte olmuş; aileleri, vatanları ve reddettikleri inançlarını ne dereceye kadar arkalarında bırakabilmişlerdir?...
Gorgias Press, 2011. — 259 p. Piri Reis and Süleyman the Magnificent. Piri Reis and the Ottoman Discovery of the Great Discoveries. Piri Reis and the Persian Gulf. The Rise of the Barbarossas in North Africa. Ottoman naval policy in the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese and the Turks in the Persian Gulf. Naval Aspects of the Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete. The Strait...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 352 p. From 1516 to 1830, the Barbary corsairs dominated the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. The years between 1800-1820 were crucial. Until 1805, a spectacular revival of privateering allows the author to present the men, the practices and the results gained by the privateers. From 1805 to 1814, the Maghrib states gave up a...
Good Press, 2019. — 288 p. This book spans the Turkish Empire's expansion from the conquest of Constantinople to that of Crete, and recounts the story of Barbarossa, whom Süleyman the Magnificent appointed commander of the imperial navy, and many other highlights of Ottoman history. Katip Celebi is one of the classic authors in the Turkish language, and this book is his key...
Boyut, 2009. — 367 p. Deniz Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı yayınlarından olan Türk Denizcilik Tarihi, iki ciltten oluşan değerli bir kaynak eser. İdris Bostan ve Salih Özbaran’ın editoryal çalışmalarıyla hazırlanan eser, her biri birer arşiv niteliğinde harita ve resimlerle renklendirilmiş. Kitabın 10 bölüm ve iki kısımdan oluşan ilk cildinde; Osmanlılardan Önce Türk Denizcilik...
The Mariner's Mirror. — 2018. — Vol. 104 (1). — p. 18-26. Between 1650 and 1718 the Ottoman navy developed a new fleet of sailing warships in response to similar developments in the Venetian navy. The Venetian government was kept informed of Ottoman naval developments through ambassadors’ reports from Constantinople and accounts from admirals during wartime. The files in the...
MMP Books, 2012. — 132 p. This new book covers the Sino-French Naval War 1884-1885, a little-known part of late 19th century naval history. The background, operations and outcomes are described in detail. All the ships involved, both French and Chinese, are described and illustrated with full technical specifications. Profusely illustrated with scale drawings and photos.
Georgetown University Press, 2023. — 259 p. New details about the founding of China’s Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy. From 1949 to 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China’s periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet to capture key offshore islands from...
Routledge, 2020. — 296 p. This book analyzes China’s maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction. This book explains the construction and application of China's military, political, economic and diplomatic means for building maritime power, and predicts the future of China's maritime power by 2049, as well as...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2014. — 180 p. — (Maritime Series 3105). — ISBN10: 83-63678-30-9; ISBN13: 978-83-63678-30-2. The First Sino – Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea. After more than six months of continuous successes by the Japanese army and naval forces, as...
Chatham Publishing, 2001. — 209 p. After 1860, the Chinese Empire made considerable efforts to acquire a modern navy to enable it to compete with the European colonial powers and the increasing threat from Japan. This book details the history of that development through the collapse of the empire and the Nationalist period up to the end of the Second World War. A full account...
Admiralty Trilogy Group, 2021. — 104 p. In February 2016, the East Sea Fleet, North Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet were renamed “Theater Command Navies:”. The Northern Theater Command Navy (NTCN) (Beihai Fleet). The Southern Theater Command Navy (STCN) (Nanhai Fleet). The Eastern Theater Command Navy ETCN (Donghai Fleet). The main bases in the NTCN are Dalian and Qingdao; the...
Routledge, 2021. — 295 p. This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-19th century four times built or rebuilt its navy: after the Opium Wars, a navy which was sunk or captured by the Japanese in the...
Routledge, 2006. — 209 p. This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century. China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony:...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China s navy, one that continues to grow while the U.S. Navy shrinks. According to the author, Beijing is now giving increased attention to guarding its vital sea lanes because of the nation s growing dependence on maritime trade, especially energy supplies. He provides a...
Routledge, 2007. — 192 p. Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. Economics is the prime motivation for maritime reorientation, and...
Congressional Research Service, 2020. — 42 p. In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military...
University of Melbourne, 2009. — 311 p. This thesis aims to examine how and why a continental-oriented China has shifted its maritime strategic orientation and naval force structure from its coast toward the far seas in an era of interdependent international system. Generally, China is an ancient continental land power with an incomplete oceanic awareness. With the...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2004 — 73 p. — (Warship Pictorial No. 23). This book also contains color computer rendered graphics of all seven vessels of the type in their WW II camouflage patterns, illustrating both port, starboard and overhead view at an amazing level of detail. Combined with the color photographs, there are a total of 16 p. of color in this volume.
Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1986. — 77 p. Regia Marina Italian Battleships of WW II - a book about Italian battleships of the Second World War. The book describes the Italian battle fleet - ships of the "Cavour" and "Giulio Cesare" type that remained after the First World War. Information is provided on unfinished super-dreadnoughts of the Francesco Carraciolo class and...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2011. — 72 p. — (Warship Pictorial No. 37). Extensive visual study of the Regia Marina's last completed Vittorio Veneto class battleship. Covers the ship's short career from launching in 1940 through her sinking by the Luftwaffe in 1943. Includes overall history, general statistics, fitting out, operations, and careful attention to the ship's...
Milan: Selene Edizioni, 2003. — 515 p. A fundamental, unique, and comprehensive study by the modern Italian historian (from Genoa) Luca Lo Basso is devoted to the study of the galley fleets of the European maritime states of the Western Mediterranean in the 15th-18th centuries. The main part of the author's work is focused on studying the development of the rowing fleet...
Venezia, 1896. — 191 p. This study by the little-known Italian historian Cesare Levi examines the interesting topic of the creation and construction of sailing (and then steam) ships in the shipyards of Venice, called the Arsenal, in the period from 1664 to 1896. The author pays much attention to the Venetian period of activity of the Arsenal shipyards (until 1797). As you...
U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1957. — 458 p. Marc Antonio Bragadin presented a fairly thorough account of the Italian Navy from before the war, the beginning of the war, through to the very end of conflict, and beyond (after Italy surrendered). He presents the material very well. The book does not go into heavy and overwhelming detail like other books I have read in the past,...
Zagreb. — Povijesni prilozi. — 2013. — Vol. 45. — p. 199-235. A review scientific article by the talented modern Croatian historian Domagoj Madunic gives us an excellent systematic understanding of the structure and composition of the special separate Adriatic squadron of the Venetian fleet, subordinate to the commander-in-chief of the Venetian army in Dalmatia (and Albania)...
Dutton and Company, 1910. — 370 p. The classic fundamental work is devoted to the history of the Venetian fleet over a centuries-long period (from 452 to 1797). Numerous naval wars with Arabs, Turks, Byzantines, and Spaniards are reflected in this book. The Battle of Lepanto (1571), the Battle of the Dardanelles (in 1654-1657) during the Cretan War (1645-1669), the conquest and...
Nadir Media, 2016. — 576 p. Il titolo illustra ampiamente il concetto informatore dell'opera: non dizionario enciclopedico, ma biografico, a carattere nominativo, dove l'esame della vita, delle opere e dell'attività professionale assume la forma di un compendio completo di informazioni, di contenuto conciso, ma esauriente e di facile e snella consultazione. Il dizionario tratta...
Chronique d'histoire maritime. — 2006. — № 60. — p. 1-23. An excellent overview article by a French naval historian this time examines the history and organization of the Venetian sail and galley fleet during the three long Wars (1645 to 1719) against the Ottoman Empire. And if in the first part of his work the author briefly outlines to us the main battles of the Venetian...
University of Southern Denmark, 2008. — 405 p. The doctoral dissertation of the Danish scientist (in English) is devoted to the history of the construction and use in combat of small reconnaissance and patrol frigates in the Danish fleet in the period from 1650 to 1750.
University of Southern Denmark, 2014. — 132 p. During the period of activity of Ole Judichær (1690-1727), sources in the form of lines plans, ship models and construction documentation are preserved in the Danish National Archives and the Royal Danish Naval Museum. While some of these sources have been studied in other contexts, they have not been studied in conjunction. Using...
Amager Central Trykkeri, 1994. — 52 p. This catalogue is meant as a contribution to an understanding ofthe chronology ofthe exhibits in the Royal Danish Naval Museum. It contains illustrations of selected objects from the various collections of the museum, and a review of the history of the Danish fleet through the ages. The collections of the Royal Danish Naval Museum contain...
Marinehistorisk Selskab, 1977. — 143 p. Niels Juel (1629 – 1697) was a Danish-Norwegian admiral and a Danish naval hero. He served as supreme command of the Royal Danish Navy during the late 17th century and oversaw development of the Danish Navy. Juel then won a European reputation, and raised Danish sea-power to unprecedented eminence, by the system of naval tactics, which...
Berling, 1936. — 112 p. This book was written by Commodore of the Danish navy in 1935. His work goodly describes the brief naval history, naval evolution, structure and organization of the Danish Royal Navy from early times to modern ages (from 808 to 1935 years).
Aarhus Universitetsforlaget, 1977. — 432 s. Niels Juel var en dansk admiral og sjøhelt. Juel ble født i Oslo i 1629. Han var bror av Jens Juel. I 1657 ble han admiral, og under det svenske angrepet på København under Krabbekrigen i 1658 – 1659 ledet han det danske sjøforsvaret. Under den skånske krig (også kalt Gyldenløvefeiden) i 1675 – 1679 var Juel øverstkommanderende for...
University of Glasgow, 1997. — 489 p. In the early 17th century Christian IV of Denmark created a highly impressive navy. This thesis investigates the uses to which the navy was put, and assesses the ships that were built to meet these needs. It shows that the Danish navy was for a time the largest state-owned navy in Europe and that the dockyard used to build and maintain...
Nordiske Landes Bogforlag, 1942. — 494 p. The Danish Navy (from 1845 to 1914) was slowly rebuilt, but it was nowhere near its former size. Faith was nevertheless placed in the navy, interests in Africa and the Caribbean still receiving considerable attention. In 1845, a two-year research expedition was launched on the corvette Galathea. In the Second Schleswig War (1864), the...
Munksgaard, 1963. — 157 p. Den orlogsflåde, som kong Christian IV efterlod sin søn kong Frederik III, var-skønt den var blevet svækket noget gennem den sidste krig - dog af en anseelig størrelse. Med denne som udgangspunkt vil det være naturligt at følge udviklingen i det følgende halve sekel. De bevarede arkivalier giver imidlertid ikke altid nøje oplysninger om den tilgang og...
Hirschsprung, 1947. — 252 p. Admiral Iver Huitfeldt (1665-1710) was a Norwegian-Danish naval officer who was killed in action, when he commanded the ship Dannebroge during Great Northern War 1700 – 1721. Iver Huitfeldt was born in the Norwegian town of Halden. He lost his mother at the age of six and his father died six years later. Both his parents died in his childhood years...
Forlagt Gyldendalske, 1871. — 544 p. Admiral Cort Sivertsen Adelaer (1622-1675) was the name of honour given to Kurt Sivertsen, a Norwegian famous seaman, who rendered distinguished naval service to the Danish and Dutch navies, and also to the Republic of Venice against the Turks at the Candian War (1645-1669).
F.D. Qvist, 1832. — 106 p. Danmark – som geografisk område – har derfor været søfartsduelig tilbage til 900-tallets vikinger. Vikingeskibene var uudrustede lette fartøjer og kunne let transporteres fra landsby til landsby i forsvarspagter. Mest kendt er dog plyndringerne af byer i havområder samt skibe. I perioden efter vikingetiden og frem til begyndelsen af 1400-tallet var...
W. Boghandel, 1930. — 311 p. History of the development and evolution of the Danish Navy after the Napoleonic Wars and in the first half of the 19-th century.
Kristiania Gyldendal, 1919. — 464 p. At tage denne Side af den danske Marines Historie op til Behandling er Formaalet med del foreliggende Arbejde, der omhandler alt Personellet vedrørende. Stoffet er dog ordnet paa en noget anden Maade, ligesom ogsaa forskellige rent personlige Oplysninger om de paagældende Officerer er medtaget, medens de ikke findes hos Garde. Ved...
Mariner's Mirror. — № 53 (1). — 1967. — p. 55 — 62. The underlying theme of the conflict was about control of the lucrative trade in the Baltic Sea. The prize was the potential to greatly enhance the economy of the trading nations involved. The Danes controlled the choke point of the narrow sound between Denmark and the Swedish mainland. However, the ensuing conflict resulted...
Brill, 1840. — 477 p. During the last half of the 1700s, the Danish navy received a new task far from home: escorting Danish Merchant ships in the Mediterranean. A rise in piracy had made this protection necessary. Piracy had practically been systematized by the North African Barbary states, giving the piracy an air of officialty. Tribute had to be paid to the princes in...
F. Hegel, 1882. — 73 p. Peter Willemoes (1783-1808) var dansk søofficer. Willemoes blev allerede som tolvårig elev på Søkadetakademiet. I 1800, da han var sytten år, fik han sin første officersgrad som sekondløjtnant, hvorefter han havde tjeneste på linjeskibene Louise Augusta og Danmark. I Slaget på Reden den 2. april 1801 fik Willemoes stor berømmelse. Han fik kommandoen over...
Gyldendalske, 1871. — 122 p. The book tells about the difficult relationship between the famous Danish admiral Nils Juel (1629-1697) with the Dutch admirals (Cornelis Tromp, Philip Almond, Jacob Binckes) and officers who served in the Danish fleet during the Scone War of 1675-1679 against Sweden. In the summer of 1675, a new war broke out with Sweden (the so-called Skonian...
Journal for Maritime Research. — Volume 23 (1). — 2021. — p. 77-91. In 1756, two Danish naval officers went into French service. This was a common practice in eighteenth-century Denmark, which aimed to train the officers and gather intelligence on naval construction as well as navigation, administration, and victualling. Detailed descriptions of French warships can be found in...
This fundamental work was created by the Commander of the Engineering Forces of the British Royal Navy and traces the development of weapons of warships (smooth-bore and rifled) in the process of their evolution from sailing to screw-propelled. The work is extremely detailed and includes empirical assessments of various events over the past decades. The book is written in a...
New York: US Naval Institute Press, 1989. — 319 p. This is a vast collection of information, fully illustrated with photos of models and contemporary engravings, outlining developments as they were made in the English man-of-war. Lifestyles, customs, and fighting tactics, and their relationship to changes in architecture and fittings, are also covered.
Seaforth Publishing. An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd. in English, 224 p. Rewriting the history of the creation and use of sea monitors of the Royal Navy of Britain.
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 256 p. For many years the naval warfare of World War I has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to the conflict to be largely naval. Britain was not simply defending an island; it was defending a far-flung empire. Without the navy, such an undertaking would have...
Chatham Publishing, 2006. — 351 p. British destroyers and frigates of World War II and after. The book describes destroyers built in the 1940s, starting with large Tribal-class destroyers with enhanced gun armament. They were followed by numerous three-turreted ships of the J, K, L, M, and N series. Traditionally, in each letter series, all ships bore names beginning with the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 400 p. Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes, and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armored cruisers.
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 320 p. A companion volume to the same author's "The British Field Marshals 1736-1997", this book outlines the lives of the 115 officers who held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy from 1734, when it took its modern form, to 1995, when the last one was appointed. Each entry gives details of the dates of the birth and death of its...
Maritime Books, 1986. — 160 p. Naval mine clearance was originally done by whatever type of vessel could easily be adapted to the task, paddle steamers proving particularly suited due to their shallow draught. In both World Wars naval trawlers were used, as they were naturally suitable for wire sweeping. In World War II this task was given to smaller trawlers of about 300 tons,...
William Collins, 2021. — 494 p. In 1940, Hitler had two choices when it came to the Mediterranean region: stay out, or commit sufficient forces to expel the British from the Middle East. Against his generals’ advice, the Fuhrer committed a major strategic blunder. He ordered the Wehrmacht to seize Crete, allowing the longtime British bastion of Malta to remain in Allied hands....
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 240 p. This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up-to-date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artifacts in the new museum in Portsmouth. Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognizable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the...
Conway Maritime Press, 2015. — 144 p. — (Anatomy of the Ship 4). The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII's navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545. A fighting platform and sailing ship, she was the pride of the Tudor fleet. Yet her memory passed into undeserved oblivion – until...
Seafort Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant, and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige project, whose armament was increased by the King's decree to the unheard-of figure of one hundred guns, the ship finally cost the equivalent of ten more conventional warships. In this book, John...
Routledge, 2006. — 257 p. Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types — airplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons — to...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 312 p. The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793 – 1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain,...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 320 p. John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings many of which have never been published. British Naval Weapons of World War Two cover weapons carried by British destroyers...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 160 p. This new addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range features Admiral Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory, the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st, 1805. In the HMS Victory Pocket Manual, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 320 p. This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these contrasting characters were to peel back the lid...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 320 p. Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune. Bridging the gap between high-level naval strategy and everyday imperial culture, Heaslip highlights the...
The Library Press, 1915. — 358 p. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason, small space is devoted to various strategical and tactical matters of the past which generally bulk largely in more regular naval histories - of which a sufficiency already exists. The warships of the past are of...
The Library Press, 1915. — 316 p. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason, small space is devoted to various strategical and tactical matters of the past which generally bulk largely in more regular naval histories - of which a sufficiency already exists. The warships of the past are of...
Faber & Faber, 2012. — 576 p. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour, America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the...
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0-393-03846-7. They had names like Arethusa, Iphigenia, and Imperieuse, dashing names “as long as the maintop bowline, and hard enough to break your jaw” (Captain Frederick Marryat). They inspired the creations of such heroic fictional captains as C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey....
Grub Street Publishing, 2020. — 255 p. The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defense of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well-known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA), in part due to the ten-year gap between the retirement of the Harrier and the...
Routledge, 2018. — 648 p. This is the second of three volumes covering the transformation of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. As the subtitle of this volume 'The Fleet Air Arm in Transition' suggests, the years 1942-1943 marked a stepping stone between the small pre-war cadre operating from a small number of carriers to a naval air arm flying modern aircraft types...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 220 p. Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. He includes firsthand testimonies from pilots Manning early seaplane stations, an enthralling account from F.J. Rutland...
Grub Street Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Since the end of World War 2, the primary role of the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner nations. The principal tools in that response were the strike aircraft which took the...
Routledge, 2021. — 277 p. The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized naval aircraft carrier strikes, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defense of the British Isles more than 20 years before the outbreak of the Second World War....
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 70 p. — (Warbirds Illustrated №33). This is a real nice collection and photographic mini book on the Fleet Air Arm from beautiful pictures of Hawker Sea Fury fighters up to Falklands War era Naval aircraft and carriers.
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 356 p. This book summarizes the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
Grub Street Publishing, 2009. — 308 p. Des Curtis was one of the founder members of the 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618’s primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr dams. The operation, code-named Operation Servant was given top security...
Silvertail Books, 2016. — 306 p. In 1942 Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy’s newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also proved to be a lethal weapon. Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 270 p. In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm's policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes, and successes that characterized the service history of the Fleet Air Arm. Offering criticism on the service hierarchies that made up the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 192 p. The ‘X’ stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant extraordinary, exotic, or extravagant, as this giant submarine attracted superlatives — the world’s largest, most heavily armed, and deepest diving submersible of the day. X.1 was a controversial project conceived behind the backs of politicians and would remain an unwanted...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1988. — 64 p. — (Warships Illustrated №11). — ISBN10: 0-85368-778-1; ISBN13: 978-0-85368-778-8. The book is a lot of black and white naval photos with paragraph (or multiple paragraphs) captions of each picture with information about the Soviet submarine or naval vessel. For its time it was a good photo reference. Only one picture for many...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 135 p. For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realized in iron, timber, coal, and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett, a...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 216 p. HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping. Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down in history for the attack on the Italian...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. — 332 p. Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. However, by the 1960s new nuclear-powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first-class navy'. This exciting new book explores the changing attitudes to the submarine in Britain from World War One to the age of nuclear...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 439 p. Since the beginning of the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1901, 173 submarines have been lost and in many circumstances with their entire crew. War inevitably takes a heavy toll: in World War Two alone – 341 officers and 2,801 ratings failed to return to harbor. The loss of personnel was roughly equivalent to the strength of the Submarine...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 496 p. No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in North European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine activities. With detailed, accurate maps...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 224 p. The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this. Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port. The Naval Base was under constant air attack. Due to the...
Belvedere Meridionale, 2021. — 195 p. This book is, to date, unique. ANI members with even a passing interest in what is obscure in English, in WWI in the Adriatic, or the Austro-Hungarian Marine will find this book to be a real must-have. I have all of these interests and found that Austro-Hungarian Battleships and Battleship Designs 1904-1914 exponentially increased my...
Adamic, 2007. — 121 p. Austro-Hungarian submarines appeared late on the world scene and many of these were small and/or obsolete, but despite this, they were successfully operating on the Adriatic and in the Eastern Mediterranean. From six trial submarines built during the decade before the First World War and joined by a seventh, being built on speculation and bought finally...
Graz: Verlag Styria, 2000. — 280 S. Das große Buch der österreichischen Seefahrt - eine reich illustrierte Gesamtdarstellung. U. a. Türkenkriege auf dem Balkan, Seegefechte in der Adria, die Weltumsegelung der "Novara" von Pola nach Peking, die Hafenstädte Triest, Fiume und Grado, Dienstvorschriften und Speisepläne.
Das Bergland-Buch, 1974. — 168 p. Die österreichische Marine war die Gesamtheit der Seestreitkräfte Österreich-Ungarns. Die Marine hatte ihren Ursprung in der seit dem 16. Jahrhundert existierenden Donauflottille und der ab Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bestehenden Mittelmeerflotte. Bis zum Ausgleich von 1867 zwischen dem Kaisertum Österreich und dem Königreich Ungarn wurde sie als...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 221 p. The Sound of Music endeared Georg von Trapp (1880 – 1947) and his singing family to the world, and it also showed us how desperately the Nazis wanted Captain von Trapp for their navy. In To the Last Salute we learn why. Trapp’s own story of his exploits as a submarine commander during the First World War is as exciting as it is...
Shipsresearch, 1981, Melbourne, FL, 57 p., 1st edition ...one of a monograph series that examines obscure and scattered evidence of the configuration history of the United States Frigate CONSTITUTION
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...
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...
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...
Boydell Press, 2004. — 257 p. The Royal Navy, prominent in building Britain's maritime empire in the eighteenth century, also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state throughout the century. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state and its effective funding and maintenance was a...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 604 p. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World War I, challenging Great Britain’s command of the seas. As State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office from 1897 to 1916, Tirpitz wielded great power and influence over the national agenda during that crucial...
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...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 390 p. A valuable reference source for Pacific War enthusiasts and historians, «The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War» provides a history of the IJN’s deployment and engagements, analysis of the evolution of strategy and tactics, and finally addresses the question of whether it truly was a modern navy, fully prepared for the rigors of combat...
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 Lі, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 192 p. In late 1917, the Russians, despite the revolution, were still willing to continue the war against Germany. This is an account of Operation Albion, the highly successful sea borne operation launched by the Germans to change their minds. The Baltic Islands were pivotal for the defense of the Finnish Gulf and St. Petersburg, so their capture was...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 208 p. This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the authors masterly account of development of Royal Navy's ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 144 p. This is a must-buy for the Royal Navy and Submarine enthusiast, being a complete directory of RN submarines from the outset to the present day. There is a wealth of detail on each class. Every entry contains the specification, launch dates of individual boats, details of evolving construction and armament and other salient information in a compact...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 268 p. The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 278 p. It has been widely accepted that British naval war planning from the late nineteenth century to the First World War was amateur and driven by personal political agenda. But Shawn T. Grimes argues that this was far from the case. His extensive original research shows that, in fact, the Royal Navy had a definitive war strategy, which was well...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 696 p. One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 577 p. The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of World War II. It explains why this contribution, made while the Soviet Union’s fate remained in the balance and before American economic power took effect,...
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....
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...
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2014. — 720 p. The longest story of British Royal Navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 297 p. This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 189 p. The story of HMS Invincible, a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. From her conception and design, through her various military deployments (including the Falklands) and her evolving role and technical adaptation to meet changing...
Robert E. Krieger Publishing, 1978. — 502 p. This classic study is considered essential reading for its analysis of fast aircraft carrier development in WWII. It provides a fascinating record not only of the U.S. Navy's metamorphosis from a battleship-oriented to a carrier-centered fleet, but also of the heated debates that took place over the changing naval strategy. With an...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 320 p. This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict. The impact of this impotence had a far-reaching effect upon the...
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...
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...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 208 p. In this book, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Warrior to Dreadnought, renowned warship author D. K. Brown brings his knowledge and experience as a warship designer to the story of the Royal Navy's development of World War I warships and the influence of that conflict on future warship design. The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. In the 50 years that separated HMS Warrior from Dreadnought there was a revolution in warship design unparalleled in naval history. It was a period that began with the fully rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battle cruisers of World War I. Noted naval historian D.K. Brown explains how the...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 361 p. This book covers all aspects of the operations made by US aircraft carriers, from their introduction into service during WW1 to the continuing conflicts in the Middle East. America's part in WW1 saw the deployment of US Navy aircraft operating from coastal bases - mainly Curtiss flying boats. In the immediate postwar period the first aircraft...
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...
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....
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 224 p. Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – unofficial motto: Ready for Anything – was originally a logistic support organization, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 232 p. Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available which could bring heavy artillery to bear on...
Ashgate, 2011. — 648 p. Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a...
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, 2011. — 342 p. The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 272 p. In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 493 p. A fresh look at the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of 1941–1942 which heralded a wave of Japanese naval victories in the Pacific but which eventually sowed the seeds of their eventual change in fortunes. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese juggernaut quickly racked up victory after victory. Desperate to secure resource-rich...
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...
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...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 224 p. Germany’s attempts to build a battleship fleet to match that of the United Kingdom, the dominant naval power on the 19th-century and an island country that depended on sea born trade for survival, is often listed as a major reason for the enmity between those two countries that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Indeed, German leaders had...
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...
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...
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...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 178 p. It is not widely remembered that mines were by far the most effective weapon deployed against the British Royal Navy in WW1, costing them 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 4 submarines and a host of other vessels. They were in the main combated by a civilian force using fishing boats and paddle steamers recruited from holiday resorts. This...
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...
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...
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...
Routledge, 2007. — 271 p. This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the present...
University of South Carolina Press, 1994. — 214 p. This study investigates German and Soviet naval activities in the interwar period and is intended to illuminate Soviet and German naval intentions and interface vis-à-vis their defense policies and political systems. In particular, Stalin's ambitions for naval power and his strategy for building Soviet military power and his...
Frank Cass, 2004. — 228 p. This book is a comparative study of the evolution of the German navy in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the development of strategy, especially commerce-raiding, in comparison to what other navies were doing in this era of rapid technological change. It is not an insular history, merely listing ship rosters or specific events;...
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...
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...
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...
Frank Cass, 2001. — 369 p. This title describes in detail the discussions about the naval strategy and the shipbuilding programs in the Soviet political and military leadership from 1922 to the death of Stalin in 1953. A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 344 p. During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building "a navy second to none," one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the...
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.
Ashgate, 2015. — 559 p. The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major cause of the Great War, it has become emblematic of all that is wrong with international competitions...
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...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 736 p. When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and command and, while the Battle of Jutland met Britain's strategic need for continued...
Endeavour Press Ltd., 2013. — 322 p. Nearly two centuries after his death, does Nelson deserve his reputation as one of the world's great commanders? Nelson's triumphs have so caught the public imagination that his failures are barely remembered. His only victorious battles at sea was Trafalgar (at Copenhagen and the Nile his destroyed ships at anchor), while his infatuation...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 192 p. The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany’s most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged immediately. On 8 December 1914, the German squadron...
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...
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...
Springer-Verlag, 2015. — 318 p. This book analyzes the rise of China’s naval power and its possible strategic consequences from a wide variety of perspectives – technological, economic, and geostrategic – while employing a historical-comparative approach throughout. Since naval development requires huge financial resources and mostly takes place within the context of...
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...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 567 p. Founded in 1912 by some of the Royal Navy’s brightest officers, the quarterly Naval Review has never been subject to official censorship, and its naval members do not need official permission to write for it, so it has always provided an independent, lively and at times outspoken forum for service debate. In broad terms, it has covered...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 301 p. The history of weapons and warfare is usually written from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in particular, the story of how these weapons were invented, designed and supplied is seldom told. Chris Henry, in this pioneering study, sets the record straight. He describes how, to counter the extraordinary...
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...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 352 p. This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War I to the present day. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and the evolution of their designs, the theaters of war in which they served and their notable achievements and tragedies. It traces navy flying from the...
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...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 175 p. The first part of this book covers the role of US aircraft carriers and aircraft in stopping the North Korean initial push to the south and also their role in the famous Inchon Landing and Pusan Perimeter Break out. The last part of the first chapter deals with naval operations during the Marine's Chosin Reservoir march to the sea in December 1950....
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 304 p. On the declaration of war in 1939, the British Admiralty signaled all warships and naval bases: Total Germany. It was fortunate that of Germany’s three armed services, the Kriegsmarine, under Grosser-admiral Erich Raeder, was the least well prepared. They had not expected to fight all-out war for another two to three years. While Admiral...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 349 p. To the US Navy they were CVEs! To the Royal Navy auxiliary carriers! To crews of endangered merchantmen in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans they were heaven-sent protection! To their crews they were Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable! The need for air cover against enemy aircraft and submarines brought unprecedented demand for carriers. Over 100...
Pen and Sword, 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, 2009. — 252 p. Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding colour to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical take-off, and in operations, including the sinking of the Konigsberg and the daring attack on the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 392 p. This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prize winning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the process of explaining the navy s essential strengths and weaknesses, the book provides the most detailed account available in...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 400 p. In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable...
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...
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...
Penguin, 2006. — 976 p. The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in a dozen languages over more than a decade, it describes not just battles, voyages, and cruises but also...
W. W. Norton and Company, 1999. — 692 p. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empire, and in all likelihood would have been...
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...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 584 p. This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and potentialities of eighteenth-century British administration. Originally published in 1965.
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...
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...
Faber and Faber, 2008. — 512 p. From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how this country's maritime power helped Britain gain unparalleled dominance of the world's economy. Told through the lives of ten of our most remarkable admirals, Andrew Lambert's book spans Elizabethan times to the Second World...
Faber and Faber, 2012. — 560 p. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the...
University of Plymouth Press, 2012. — 304 p. In late 1944, the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk by RAF Bomber Command. While it was the RAF that delivered the final coup de grace, it was the Royal Navy, from 1942 to 1944, that had contained, crippled and neutralised the German battleship in a series of actions marked by innovation, boldness and bravery. From daring commando...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 305 p. The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2008. — 224 p. A distinguished British maritime writer, Woodman offers a compelling reassessment of the British and German planning that led to the first and one of the most famous naval battles of World War II. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast...
Robinson Publishing, 2002. — 416 p. Extraordinary maritime heroes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries stride across these pages - some, like Warren, Pellew, Cochrane and Collingwood, are still renowned; others are almost unknown today, yet their brilliant exploits deserve to be pulled from under the long shadow of the greatest naval figure of all, Horatio Nelson. The...
University of London, 1967. — 310 p. Between 1603 and 1613 the navy James I had inherited rotted slowly at its moorings, neglected by corrupt principal officers and an ageing Lord Admiral Nottingham who refused to recognize any responsibility for the administration. Abortive attempts to reform the navy were made in 1608 and 1613, but it was not until 1618 that success was...
Springer, 1974. — 268 p. The French navy that fought in the Nine Years War was essentially Colbert's creation. Earlier in the century Richelieu had given France the beginnings of a navy: ships, ports, a corps of officers and an administrative structure. But most of his work was undone by neglect in the years after his death, and the task of making France a maritime power had to...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 152 p. — ISBN: 0393070093. There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. Yet, this 28-gun frigate also had an eventful real career serving in both the French and then the Royal Navies. It was captured from the French in 1796 and took...
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,...